Monday, March 19, 2007

We Didn't Start the Fire

Hi guys, another history lesson following Hossan's one on Singapore's History. I was inspired to post this video thanks to Mr aguss, Muhd and Sam Soh. Thanks guys!

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 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, 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 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 homicides, 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 (more)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heh my videos on here awesome! History rocks eh? Yep =]

HC said...

Hey hey! I would have to say that your video is great. Nice work that even Billy Joel would be proud of =) And guess what? You are my first reader outside Singapore!
Cheers to history, humanity and a better future for mankind!

 
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