Billy Joel's 'We Didn't Start the Fire'
*** "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel *** * Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
* South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
* Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
* North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
* Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
* Brando, 'The King and I' and 'The Catcher in the Rye'
* Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
* Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
*** CHORUS
* We didn't start the fire
* It was always burning
* Since the world's been turning
* We didn't start the fire
* No we didn't light it
* But we tried to fight it ***
* Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
* Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
* Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
* Dien Bien Phu falls, 'Rock Around the Clock'
* Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
* Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
* Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
* Princess Grace, 'Peyton Place,' trouble in the Suez
*** CHORUS
* Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
* Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, 'Bridge on the River Kwai'
* Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
* Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
* Buddy Holly, 'Ben Hur', space monkey, Mafia
* Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
* U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
* Chubby Checker, 'Psycho', Belgians in the Congo
*** CHORUS
* Hemingway, Eichmann, 'Stranger in a Strange Land'
* Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
* 'Lawrence of Arabia', British Beatlemania
* Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
* Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
* JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
*** CHORUS
* Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
* Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
* Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
* Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
* 'Wheel of Fortune,' Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
* Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
* Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
* Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore
*** CHORUS
* We didn't start the fire
* But when we are gone
* Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
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Prostitute
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Spy
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Religious Figure
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Spy
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Boxer
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Baseball Player
100% (1 of 1 votes)
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Location
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Murderer
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World Leader
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World Leader
77.78% (28 of 36 votes)
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World Leader
75.00% (3 of 4 votes)
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Organization
74.88% (158 of 211 votes)
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Politician
66.67% (2 of 3 votes)
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U.S. Senator
61.83% (392 of 634 votes)
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60.25% (535 of 888 votes)
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Vocalist
59.24% (375 of 633 votes)
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59.15% (84 of 142 votes)
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Baseball Player
58.74% (131 of 223 votes)
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Astronaut
58.67% (88 of 150 votes)
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U.S. President
58.51% (275 of 470 votes)
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Military Personnel
58.46% (152 of 260 votes)
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World Leader
58.33% (7 of 12 votes)
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Monarch
57.96% (91 of 157 votes)
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Sex Researcher
57.89% (77 of 133 votes)
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Musician
53.35% (167 of 313 votes)
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World Leader
52.65% (149 of 283 votes)
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Musician
51.76% (88 of 170 votes)
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Commentator
50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
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Author
50.0% (1 of 2 votes)
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TV Series
50.0% (2 of 4 votes)
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U.S. President
49.31% (250 of 507 votes)
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Actor
46.77% (29 of 62 votes)
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U.S. President
45.00% (9 of 20 votes)
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Actress
43.11% (316 of 733 votes)
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Astronaut
42.31% (55 of 130 votes)
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U.S. President
42.17% (132 of 313 votes)
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Location
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Musicians
41.86% (72 of 172 votes)
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Actress
40.0% (2 of 5 votes)
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Baseball Player
39.35% (85 of 216 votes)
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37.93% (88 of 232 votes)
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TV Personality
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World Leader
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U.S. President
33.33% (60 of 180 votes)
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32.71% (35 of 107 votes)
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32.64% (94 of 288 votes)
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32.58% (29 of 89 votes)
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32.41% (35 of 108 votes)
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32.14% (18 of 56 votes)
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31.75% (40 of 126 votes)
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30.45% (408 of 1340 votes)
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Advocate
29.95% (62 of 207 votes)
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28.57% (4 of 14 votes)
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28.47% (39 of 137 votes)
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25.00% (1 of 4 votes)
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Sports Team
11.11% (2 of 18 votes)
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U.S. Congressman
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Conductor
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Astronaut
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