Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (Official HD Video)

(upbeat cheerful music) ♪ 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 ♪ (upbeat cheerful music) ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ Little Rock, Pasternak,. Mickey Mantle, Kerouac ♪ ♪ Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, "Bridge on the River Kwai" ♪ ♪ Lebanon, Charles de, Gaulle, California baseball ♪ ♪ Starkweather homicide,, children of thalidomide ♪ (upbeat cheerful music) ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ Birth control, Ho Chi Minh,, Richard Nixon back again ♪ ♪ Moonshot, Woodstock,, Watergate, punk rock ♪ ♪ Bagan, 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 shore, 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, and on, and on, and on, and on ♪ ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ We didn't start the fire ♪ ♪ It was always burning since, the world's been turning ♪ ♪ We didn't start ♪