My 1st gift to the Forum - We Didn't Start the Fire Vid!!!!

[RobertFKennedy]

Apologies if you've already seen this but you might not have.

Heres the link, it should only take a minute to get started.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~yel/Fire.html

And heres the words in case you want to sing along. Enjoy!

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


Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc


Roy hn, 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, B***pest, 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, Charlse 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, Woodsto, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in ***n, 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
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

 

[Catalyst]

I keep expecting to be brain washed....I looked at the answers as it was playing! I feel shame..

 

[sirmyk]

I want my five minutes back.

 

[RobertFKennedy]

tough luck!

 

[jenn]

hey rfk i liked it alot. that was cool.

 

[RobertFKennedy]

glad to be of service.

 

[blueboatdriver]

Excellent,loved it.

 

[sirmyk]

I don't think I understand this video's purpose.

 

[mehastings]

I don't think I understand this video's purpose.

Haven't you ever heard that horrid song before? We had to memorize and sing it in jr high music class (a bad memory that continues to haunt).

 

[jenn]

you did really?wierd.

i like billy joel.

 

[RobertFKennedy]

I don't think I understand this video's purpose.

no grand purpose, just a bit of light entertainment.