Billy Joel...

[jimnyc]

I know this isn't a forum of musical interest but I felt this was sorta worthy of discussion. Are times are plagued with many problems, many of them residual effects from times past. I constantly hear stories, good and bad, of times past that still effect our lives today. Although we live in some tough times it isn't something that has presented itself from our generation. We are dealing with and reminded of things that have happened long before many of us were born. Problems from the past still haunt us today and many good things today were born before our times. Just thought it was something to reflect on. Here's the lyrics to the song I'm thinking of called "We didn't start the fire". Sort of a trip down memory lane.

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Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny 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
Maciano, 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, Dancron
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
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, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkwether, 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

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, Eichman, 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

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
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
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

 

[janeeng]

Excellent Song! I also hear how Billy did it again and crashed his car in Long Island!

 

[acludem]

For fun, I decided to write a couple of new verses, tell me what you think:

Berlin wall came tumbling down,
Gorbechev, Jones town,
George Bush, Dan Quayle, Hussein, markets fail
Michael Jordan, Carson's gone, Desert Storm, Limbaugh's on
Clinton, Bush and Ross Perot, Gingrich, Bob Dole
Hip-Hop, Gun Control, Israel and Palestine, everybody get online
Lyle and Erik, OJ, Jerry Springer, Blue Jays
Kurt Cobain, Acid Rain, Man I'm gonna go insane

(chorus)

Clinton, Bush and Ross Perot, Gingrich, Bob Dole
Contract with America, Gingrich in the Speaker's chair
Hip-Hop, Gun Control, Monica's on every show
Israel and Palestine, everybody get online
Impeachment trial, dirty bombs, meth labs, single moms
Y2K, judgement day?, I hope we live another day

(chorus)

Elian in Miami, Bush or Gore in D.C.?
Hanging chads, hillary, deadbeat dads and DVD
9/11 tragedy, etched in every memory
Osama and the Taliban, Iraq, Hussein, Afghanistan
Columbia disintigrates, gay marriage in the states
global warming could be near, where else do we go from here?

(chorus)

 

[jimnyc]

Excellent, acludem!!!!!!!!!

 

[janeeng]

That was quite good acludem! :clap1:

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Pretty good acludem!

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by acludem
For fun, I decided to write a couple of new verses, tell me what you think:

Berlin wall came tumbling down,
Gorbechev, Jones town,
George Bush, Dan Quayle, Hussein, markets fail
Michael Jordan, Carson's gone, Desert Storm, Limbaugh's on
Clinton, Bush and Ross Perot, Gingrich, Bob Dole
Hip-Hop, Gun Control, Israel and Palestine, everybody get online
Lyle and Erik, OJ, Jerry Springer, Blue Jays
Kurt Cobain, Acid Rain, Man I'm gonna go insane

(chorus)

Clinton, Bush and Ross Perot, Gingrich, Bob Dole
Contract with America, Gingrich in the Speaker's chair
Hip-Hop, Gun Control, Monica's on every show
Israel and Palestine, everybody get online
Impeachment trial, dirty bombs, meth labs, single moms
Y2K, judgement day?, I hope we live another day

(chorus)

Elian in Miami, Bush or Gore in D.C.?
Hanging chads, hillary, deadbeat dads and DVD
9/11 tragedy, etched in every memory
Osama and the Taliban, Iraq, Hussein, Afghanistan
Columbia disintigrates, gay marriage in the states
global warming could be near, where else do we go from here?

(chorus)

I am impressed!

This was always one of my favorite songs.

 

[acludem]

Thank you all for the kind words!

acludem

 

[JIHADTHIS]

Acludem,

Although I disagree with virtually everything you've ever posted, very nice job with the "new" lyrics! :clap1:

 

[Sandy73]

Great Job !

 

[William Joyce]

That song sucks. It was recently rated as one of the gayest of all time. I swear. I read it in the newspaper.

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by William Joyce
That song sucks. It was recently rated as one of the gayest of all time. I swear. I read it in the newspaper.

You DO KNOW papers are in BLACK and white, right?

 

[insein]

Originally posted by NewGuy
You DO KNOW papers are in BLACK and white, right?

And im sure hes the resident expert on what is gay.

 

[NewGuy]