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    This document is the lyrics to the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. The song lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing an event or person from that time period. The lyrics are presented in verses with a repeating chorus that declares "We didn't start the fire" between each verse.

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    8.cancion de Billy Joel

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    This document is the lyrics to the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. The song lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing an event or person from that time period. The lyrics are presented in verses with a repeating chorus that declares "We didn't start the fire" between each verse.

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    This document is the lyrics to the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. The song lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing an event or person from that time period. The lyrics are presented in verses with a repeating chorus that declares "We didn't start the fire" between each verse.

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    8.cancion de Billy Joel

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    This document is the lyrics to the song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel. The song lists over 100 historical events and cultural touchstones from 1949 to 1989, with each line referencing an event or person from that time period. The lyrics are presented in verses with a repeating chorus that declares "We didn't start the fire" between each verse.

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    WE DIDNT START THE FIRE

    [Intro] (piano)

    e| | B|-------8-10-12---8-10-12-10-
    8---------------------------------8-10-12-10-8-|
    G|-7-7-9 9 9 | Repeat
    D| |
    A| |
    E| |

    [Verse]

    G D
    Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
    E C
    South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

    G D
    Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
    E C
    North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

    (Intro Riff)

    G D
    Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
    E C
    Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

    G D
    Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
    E C
    Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
    [Chorus] (Play the Intro)

    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

    [Verse]

    G D
    Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
    E C
    Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

    G D
    Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
    E C
    Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

    G D
    Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
    E C
    Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

    G D
    Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
    E C
    Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

    (Chorus)
    [Verse]

    G D
    Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
    E C
    Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

    G D
    Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
    E C
    Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

    G D
    Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia
    E C
    Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

    G D
    U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
    E C
    Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

    (Chorus)

    [Verse]

    G D
    Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
    E C
    Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

    G D
    Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
    E C
    Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
    G D
    Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
    E C
    JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

    (Chorus)

    [Verse]

    G D
    Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
    E C
    Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

    G D
    Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
    E C
    Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

    G D
    Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
    E C
    Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

    G D
    Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
    E C
    Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

    (Chorus)

    We didn't start the fire But


    when we are gone
    It still burn on, and on, and on, and on

    BILLY JOEL

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