'49 Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
'50 Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
'51 Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"
'52 Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good bye
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.
'53 Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
'54 Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
'55 Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
'56 Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez
CHORUS
'57 Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
'58 Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of Thalidomide
'59 Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
'60 U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo
CHORUS
'61 Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
'62 "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
'63 Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?
CHORUS
'64 - '89 Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, PaOh baby, when I hold you, tell me
Is this the last time
Tell me your dreams, tell me
And then I'll tell mine
Lady, when I touch you
Everything will turn out fine
Baby, I know, kisses are from heaven
Oh, it's like, babe, my first time
Baby, tell me
Why did you leave this backstreet heaven ?
Why did you leave me ?
Darling, I know it's hard, hard to be mine, oh no
Baby, tell me
Why did you leave this backstreet heaven ?
Why did you leave me ?
Darling, I know love is so hard to find
What a difference a night makes, tell me
Is this the last dance
It's april in Paris, tell me
It's time for a romance
Behind my tears, girl
I can see forever, girl
Baby, I know tears made in heaven
Baby, don't destroy my world
Lead me through the darkness, oh no
Babe, save your last kiss
Oh, darling
Let me with you once again