The best song ever written by Billy Joel titled ,"We didn't start the Fire."
It says everything we'd have to say.
1949
Harry Truman
Doris day
Red China
Johnny Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe Di Maggio.
1950
Joe McCarthy
Richard Nixon
Studebaker
Television
North Korea
South Korea
Marilyn Monroe.
1951
Rosenbergs
H-Bomb
Sugar Ray
Panmunjom
Brando
The King And I and
The Catcher In The Rye
1952
Eisenhower
Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano
Liberace
Santayana good-bye.
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
1953
Joseph Stalin
Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella
Communist Bloc
1954
Roy Cohen
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls
Rock Around The Clock
1955
Einstein
James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
David Crockett
Peter Pan
Elvis Presley
Disneyland
1956
Bardot
Budapest
Alabama
Khrushchev
Princess Grace
Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez
We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin since the world's been turnin
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it.
1957
Little Rock
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
Bridge On The River Kwai
1958
Lebanon
Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkweather
Homicide
Children of Thalidomide
1959
Buddy Holly
Ben Hur
Space Monkey
Mafia
Hula Hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no-go
1960
U 2
Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker
Psycho
Belgians in the Congo
We didn't start the fire
It was always burnin since the world's been turnin
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it...
1961
Hemingway
Eichmann
Stranger In A Strange Land
Dylan
Berlin
Bay Of Pigs Invasion
1962
Lawrence Of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss
John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
1963
Pope Paul
Malcolm X
British Politician Sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire
64-89
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
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on and on and on and on and on...??
And the last line, is the question I keep asking.
