Cold+War+Songs

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= **WHAT IS THE FIRE BILLY JOEL IS SINGING ABOUT???** = = =

=__ ** COLD WAR THEMES: ** nationalism, poverty, propaganda, over-indulgence, Americana, dictators, annihilation, devastation, psychological warfare, wars, weapons __= ** "We Didn't Start The Fire" by ** [|**Billy Joel**]

** [|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]

[|Rosenbergs], [|H-Bomb], [|Sugar Ray], [|Panmunjom] [|Brando], [|"The King and I"], and [|"The Catcher in the Rye"]

[|Eisenhower], [|vaccine], [|England's] got a new [|queen] [|Marciano], [|Liberace], [|Santayana] goodbye

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

[|Josef Stalin], [|Malenkov], [|Nasser] and [|Prokofiev] [|Rockefeller], [|Campanella], [|Communist Bloc]

[|Roy Cohn], [|Juan Peron], [|Toscanini], [|dacron] [|Dien Bien Phu] and [|"Rock Around the Clock"]

[|Einstein], [|James Dean], [|Brooklyn's got a winning team] [|Davy Crockett], [|"Peter Pan"], [|Elvis Presley], [|Disneyland]

[|Bardot], [|Budapest], [|Alabama], [|Khrushchev] [|Princess Grace], [|"Peyton Place"], trouble in the [|Suez]

CHORUS

[|Little Rock], [|Pasternak], [|Mickey Mantle], [|Kerouac] [|Sputnik], [|Chou En-Lai], [|"Bridge on the River Kwai"]

[|Lebanon], [|Charles de Gaulle], [|California baseball] [|Starkweather, homicide], children of [|thalidomide]

[|Buddy Holly], [|"Ben-Hur"], [|space monkey], [|Mafia] [|hula hoops], [|Castro], [|Edsel] is a no go

[|U2], [|Syngman Rhee], [|payola] and [|Kennedy] [|Chubby Checker], [|"Psycho"], [|Belgians in the Congo]

CHORUS

[|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 politician sex] [|JFK], blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

[|Birth control], [|Ho Chi Minh], [|Richard Nixon], back again [|Moonshot], [|Woodstock], [|Watergate], [|punk rock] [|Begin], [|Reagan], [|Palestine], [|terror on the airline] [|Ayatollolah'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 shore], [|China's under martial law] [|Rock and Roller Cola Wars], I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on... **