WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

In case you were wondering (the Cliff Notes version)...

In case you were wondering (the War and Peace version):
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
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
Starkweather homocide...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 Lane
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 to 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 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; no, we didn't light it but we're tried to fight it.