Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official HD Video)

(upbeat, upbeat music) ♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat, upbeat music) ♪ Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom ♪ ♪ Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye" ♪ ♪ Eisenhower, vaccine, England has a new queen ♪ ♪ Marciano , Liberace , Santayana goodbye ♪ ♪ We

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♪ ♪ 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 we have a winning team ♪ ♪ Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland ♪ ♪ Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev ♪ ♪ Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble at Suez ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It's always been burning as long as the world has been turning ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it ♪ ♪ Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac ♪ ♪ Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" ♪ ♪ Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball ♪ ♪ Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide ♪ (upbeat, upbeat music) ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ Buddy Holly, "Ben-Hur", space monkey, mafia ♪ ♪ Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is prohibited ♪ ♪ U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy ♪ ♪ Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It was always burning as long as the world has been turning ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ No, we didn't turn it on, but we tried to fight it ♪ ♪ 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 political sex ♪ ♪ JFK impressed, what else do I have? say ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It was always burning since the world has been turning ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it ♪ ♪ Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon again ♪ ♪ Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock ♪ ♪ Bagan, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline ♪ ♪ Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan ♪ ♪ "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide ♪ ♪ Foreign debts, homeless veterans, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz ♪ ♪ Hypodermics on the coast, China under martial law ♪ ♪ Rock and roll, cola wars, I can't take it anymore ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It's always been burning as long as the world has been spinning ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ But when we're gone it'll keep burning ♪ ♪ And it goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It was always burning since the world has been turning ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ No, we didn't light it, but we tried to fight it ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It was always burning since the world It's been spinning ♪ ♪ We don't start ♪