We Didn't Start the Fire

Undisclosed · Post by **Undisclosed** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:04 pm

Well, i have a new project in my u.s. history class. Theres a song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. I can either make a poster for each year (verse) or make up my own verse for the years 1990 thru 2006. I chose the make your own verse, so any ideas of important things i should put for those years. (note* I tried getting the song for you guys but i couldnt find it.) Heres the lyrics

"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 good bye

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.

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 got a winning team,
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev,
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
U-2, 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,
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
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

CHORUS TO FADE" -Billy Joel, 1980s

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:09 pm

include something about 2000 election, howbout or Mr Myagi dying.

perhaps a poster is a good idea.

By the way i have that song onm my Ipod.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:42 pm

RIAA said posting lyrics was illegal. They really did

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:51 pm

Shoot,

Undisclosed, put the lyrics in quotes and credit the artist

"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 good bye

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.

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 got a winning team,
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev,
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
U-2, 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,
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
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

CHORUS TO FADE"-Billy Joel, 1980s

Post by **Skyone** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:00 pm

Wow, how *derogatory* is that.

Post by **Skyone** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:01 pm

EDIT: Double Post

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 7:44 pm

Ha! Gamer2 believed him! We had to sing this for 8th grade graduation. Not fun. We also had to do something like this, adapt it to today. It was really funny, our teacher said, "You, what would do you think we could do to adapt this today?" and I said, "Get rid of spam." I knew it, but one kid in our class's nickname was spam, so it was pretty funny. He had this nickname because the math techer saw his stenciled tshirt (which is against dress code), and it said "SPAM" on it, so he always called him Spam.

Post by **Black Six** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 10:42 pm

vb_master wrote:Ha! Gamer2 believed him! We had to sing this for 8th grade graduation. Not fun.

Personally I'm a fan of Billy Joel and enjoy this song, but I agree with you completely. I can't imagine a large group of people singing this song, especially since for most of the time I'd say it's more saying/yelling it, you really lose all the emotion when it's just a bunch of 8th graders wanting to get it the hell over with, lol.

snes · Post by **snes** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 12:13 pm

lol for extra credit in history, we had to memorize that. i decided not to do it LOL

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:57 pm

just out of interest what kind of level of history are you doing?

For my History Coursework its essay and nothing but, i dont mind though i think history is really interesting, im doing it at GCSE.

Undisclosed · Post by **Undisclosed** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:12 pm

so far i have a bunch of subjects from 1990 to 2005 but its nearly impossible to rhyme. any suggestions (not all have to be used and not in a specific order)

1990
The Hubble space telescope is launched into orbit
Johnny Carson leaves Tonight show.
Iraq invades Kuwait

1991
Yugoslavia falls apart
The Soviet Union Ends
Earvin 'Magic' Johnson tests HIV positive
Mt Pinatubo Volcano Erupts

1992
President Clinton elected
Bosnia and Hercegovina Secede from Yugoslavia
First Black Female Astronaut.

1993
Waco Tragedy
Czechoslovakia splits
Michael Jordon retires
The Final Episode Of Cheers

1994
Major League baseball players strike
Chunnel opens, May 1994
Run OJ, RUN
Los Angeles suffers massive earthquake
Icestorm of '94
Oldest Human Remains Found.

1995
The Oklahoma City Bombing
OJ Simpsons found inocent, October 4
Ebola Virus Hits!

1996
Olympic Park bombing
Flight 800 from New York crashes

1997
Hong Kong's Independence
Scientists cloned Dolly the sheep
Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of bombing
Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars
Princess Diana's Funeral.
Comet Hale-Bopp 1st spotted

1998
Clinton admits to Lewinsky affair
John Glenn returns to space
Home Run Chase

1999
Columbine Tragedy
Pokemon fever grips the US
Rickymania Hits North America
Y2K Scare
Creation of the Euro

2000
Human Genome Mapped
Elian Gonzalez Goes Home
Unclear Winner in U.S. Presidential Election

2001
September 11
War in Afghanistan
Anthrax scare
Mideast conflict
Stem cell research / cloning
Timothy McVeigh execution

2002
Bin Laden Tape
Enron
Sniper Attacks
SLC Olympics

2003
War in Iraq
Arnold S. Californian Gov.
Columbia
Laci Peterson
Michael Jackson
North Korea

2004
Mars Landing
Martha Stewart
Ronald Reagan
Gas Prices
Christopher Reeves
Tsunami

2005
Elections in Iraq
Terri Schiavo
Pope John Paul II dies
Saddam Hussein trial