America will open a new chapter in history today,
so let´s take a ride through some older ones:

WE DIDN´T START THE FIRE
(Billy Joel)

49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray, south pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio
50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television, north korea, south korea, marilyn monroe
51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom, brando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye
52 eisenhower, vaccine, englands got a new queen, marciano, liberace, santayana goodbye

Chorus
We didnt start the fire
It was always burning
Since the worlds been turning
We didnt start the fire
No we didnt light it
But we tried to fight it

53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev, rockefeller, campanella, communist bloc
54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacron, dien bien phu falls, rock around the clock
55 einstein, james dean, brooklyns got a winning team, davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland
56 bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev, princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez

Chorus

57 little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac, sputnik, chou en-lai, bridge on the river kwai
58 lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball, starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
59 buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia, hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go
60 u-2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy, chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo

Chorus

61 hemingway, eichmann, stranger in a strange land, dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion
62 lawrence of arabia, british beatlemania, ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson
63 pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex, jfk, blown away, what else do I have to say

Chorus

64 - 89 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 getz
Hypodermics on the shores, chinas under martial law, rock and roller cola wars, I cant take it anymore

Chorus

We didnt start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...



This image is part of the 'painting my jukebox' gallery, which you can see here:
http://www.pbase.com/wennere_01/painting_my_jukebox

Also for the November Challenge 'A song, a poem, or a proverb' today.
For other songs, poems or proverbs to overcome the November blues, see the 'November Challenge' here:
http://form.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=39245