We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 7: Firestarters, the Final Verse

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania 
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued
Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Continued Some More

[Verse 5]

Birth control, 

Ho Chi Minh

Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, 

Woodstock

Watergate, 

punk rock

Begin, 

Reagan, 

Palestine

Terror on the airline

Ayatollahs 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, Part 6: Firestarters, Part III (of IV)

"We Didn't Start the Fire," Part I
Part II: British Beatlemania
Part III: Julie S. Howlin
Part IV: Firestarters Podcast
Part V: Firestarters Podcast Continued

Part VI: Firestarters Podcast Again is as follows.

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

J.F.K. blown away

What else do I have to say?

[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...

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 5: FireStarters II

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, 

Khrushchev

Princess Grace

Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 4: FireStarters Podcast

Happy Saturday, people of the books. My husband and I went to Terre Haute, Indiana, to do a small plumbing repair at a business this morning. On our way, we stopped at the Oasis Diner in Plainfield. 

On the way back to Indianapolis, we heard "We Didn't Start the Fire." At that moment, I suddenly remembered that which I'd completely forgotten when I originally posted that Billy Joel-themed post:

That's right: FireStarters podcast, the podcast that went over the references in "We Didn't Start the Fire." How could I have forgotten this podcast that I used to listen to regularly? 

The podcast ran for 120 episodes, and that would be a lot of content to cover in a single blog post, so for now, we'll look only at the first verse. Enjoy, and stay tuned for more FireStarters!

[Verse 1]

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

We Didn't Start the Fire, Part 3

"We Didn't Start the Fire," again, but this time the links are to the blog of author Julie S. Howlin. She's covered many of these topics in depth in the form of Top Ten lists.

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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, Khrushchev

Princess Grace, Peyton Place

Trouble in the Suez

[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

[Verse 3]

Little Rock, Pasternak

Mickey Mantle, Kerouac

Sputnik, Zhou 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]

[Verse 4]

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

J.F.K. blown away

What else do I have to say?

[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

[Verse 5]

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh

Richard Nixon back again

Moonshot, Woodstock

Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine

Terror on the airline

Ayatollahs 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

[Chorus]

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

[Outro]

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 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 the fire

No, we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it