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Intro
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Verse 1
GHarry Truman, DDoris Day, Red China
AmSouth Pacific, CWalter Winchell, Joe
GJoe McCarthy, DRichard Nixon, Studebaker
AmNorth Korea, CSouth Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Verse 2
GRosenbergs, DH-bomb, Sugar Ray
AmBrando, "The King Cand I" and Catcher
GEisenhower, Dvaccine, England's got queen
AmMarciano, CLiberace, Santayana goodbye
Chorus
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmIt was always Cburning since the world's been
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmNo we didn't Clight it, but we tried to fight it
Verse 3
GJoseph Stalin, DMalenkov, Nasser
AmRockefeller, CCampanella, Communist Bloc
GRoy Kahn, Juan DPeron, Toscanini
AmDien Bien Phu Cfalls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Verse 4
GEinstein, James DDean, Brooklyn's winning team
AmDavy Crockett, CPeter Pan, Elvis Presley
GBardot, Budapest, DAlabama, Khrushchev
AmPrincess Grace, Ctrouble in the Suez
Chorus
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmIt was always Cburning since the world's been
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmNo we didn't Clight it, but we tried to fight it
Bridge
AmLittle Rock, EmPasternak, Mickey Mantle
AmSputnik, Chou DEn-Lai, Bridge on River
AmLebanon, Charles Emde Gaulle, California baseball
AmStarkweather, homicide, Dchildren of thalidomide
Verse 5
GBuddy Holly, D"Ben Hur", space monkey
AmHula hoops, CCastro, Edsel is a no-go
GU-2, Syngman DRhee, payola and Kennedy
AmChubby Checker, C"Psycho", Belgians Congo
Chorus
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmIt was always Cburning since the world's been
GWe didn't start Dthe fire
AmNo we didn't Clight it, but we tried to fight it
Verse 6
GHemingway, Eichmann, D"Stranger in a Strange Land"
AmDylan, Berlin, CBay of Pigs invasion
G"Lawrence of Arabia", DBritish Beatle mania
AmOle Miss, John CGlenn, Liston beats Patterson
Outro
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