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We Didn't Start the Fire Either

An update to one of the most annoying tunes ever

 
I was going to wait until the end of the year to release this, but with the last couple of months being such a non-stop pop-culture train wreck, thought I had better go ahead and publish it before somebody at People Magazine beat me to it. What am I talking about? Remember Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire annoyance back in 1989? Well, I've decided to re-create it syllable by syllable with events only from 2009 YTD. So hum along and enjoy. If it helps, you can click here for an instrumental midi of the song to help you keep the tempo.
   
1989 - Billy Joel 2009 - Richard Vining
Harry Truman Barak Obama
Doris Day Tax Day
Red China Red Bull
Johnnie Ray Minimum Wage
South Pacific Miss South Carolina
Walter Winchell Walter Cronkite
Joe DiMaggio Manny Ramirez
   
Joe McCarthy Rush Limbaugh
Richard Nixon Maddoff's a crook
Studebaker Toyota Prius
television facebook
North Korea North Korea
South Korea South Korea
Marilyn Monroe Lindsey Lohan
   
Rosenbergs Bloomberg
H-Bomb IEDs
Sugar Ray Mike Tyson
Panmujom HBO's "Weeds"
Brando Soprano
"The King and I" New York Times
and "The Catcher in the Rye" "Angels & Demons" theatre time
 
Eisenhower General Petraeus
Vaccine Harold Dean
England's got a new queen England's got the same queen
Marciano Farrah Fawcett
Liberace Wham's George Michael
Satayana goodbye "BILLY MAYS HERE" 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  
   
Josef Stalin Hugo Chavez's
Malenkov Security Blimp
Nasser and Prokofiev Ethanol and braided hemp
Rockefeller "Bridezilla"
Campanella Lou Pinella
Communist Bloc Microsoft flop
   
Roy Cohn Beckham's kick
Juan Peron Michael Vick
Toscanini Fiat merger
Dacron Kim Jong is sick
Dien Bien Phu Falls Bluegrass coach thieves
"Rock Around the Clock" Downloading... "Boom Boom Pow"
   
Einstein Steven Hawking
James Dean Green Tea
Brooklyn's got a winning team The Dodgers are a winning team
Davy Crockett Mike Rowe
Peter Pan Borat fans
Elvis Presley Michael Jackson's
Disneyland Neverland
 
Bardot Housing Market
Budapest Dow Jones
Alabama Nick Saban
Khrushchev Title Loans
Princess Grace Bachlorette
Peyton Place tasers and mace
Trouble in the Suez What's wrong with Shamwow guys's face?
 
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  
   
Little Rock West Memphis 3
Pasternak Letterman
Mickey Mantle Derrick Jeter
Kerouac Palin
Sputnik iPhone
Chou En-Lai Suri's hair
Bridge On the River Kwai Bridge to Nowhere
   
Lebanon Wind Power
Charles de Gaulle Bratz Dollz
California Baseball Tampa Bay Baseball
Starkwether Credit Cards
Homicide Interest Rate
Children of Thalidomide the 8 children of Jon and Kate
   
Buddy Holly Mickey Rourke
Ben Hur Hogan
Space Monkey AIG
Mafia Unions
Hula Hoops Wii controllers
Castro Castro
Edsel is a no-go Hummer is a no-go
 
U2 TMZ
Syngman Rhee Direct TV
Payola and Sirus XM and
Kennedy Pelose
Chubby Checker Kanye West
Psycho Sleestaks
Belgians in the Congo Bagels at the Starbucks
 
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  
   
Hemingway Harry Potter
Eichmann SNL
Stranger in a Strange Land, UV lights in a hotel
Dylan Leno
Berlin Fallon
Bay of Pigs invasion Swine Flu invasion
   
Lawrence of Arabia Saudi Arabia
British Beatlemania Lady GaGa Mania
Ole Miss Houston Nutt
John Glenn Buzz Lightyear
Liston beats Patterson FuelMax tires from Goodyear
   
Pope Paul Benedict
Malcolm X Sharpton's Ex
British Politician sex New Jersey Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away Jesse Jackson now all bitter
what else do I have to say what else do I have to twitter
 
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  
   
Birth control Smilin' Bob
Ho Chi Minh Just for Men
Richard Nixon back again Al Gore is back again
Moonshot Mars Rover
Woodstock Rock Chalk
Watergate Coach Cal
punk rock hip hop
   
Begin Social...
Reagan ...ism
Palestine Priceline
Terror on the airline Another bankrupt airline
Ayatollah's in Iran Ahmadinejad's in Iran
Russians in Afghanistan Flock of Seagulls reunion
   
Wheel of Fortune Deal or No Deal
Sally Ride housing slide
heavy metal iTunes
suicide pesticide
Foreign debts Domestic debt
homeless Vets PETA pets
AIDS ED
Crack Meth
Bernie Goetz online bets
   
Hypodermics on the shores Firearms allowed in bars
China's under martial law China's painting lead dolls
Rock and Roller cola wars Satellite radio wars
I can't take it anymore I can't text it anymore
 
CHORUS  
We didn't start the fire  
It was always burning  
Since the world's been turning  
We didn't start the fire  
But when we are gone  
It will still burn on, and on, and on...  
   
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  
   
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  
   
We didn't start the fire  
It was always burning  
Since the world's been turning  
We didn't start the fire ...  
   
 
rvining RVPR Rank Location Staff Page Has Photo - 7/19/2009 9:16:33 PM
hey kids, check this out... a syllable by syllable break down of the pop-culture circus we've been living this past summer Billy Joel style. enjoy. this took more effort than it probably looks like.

robthompson RVPR Rank Location Staff Page Has Photo - 7/20/2009 4:45:51 AM
This is amazing. I'm really impressed. You should submit it to some big online news sites and blogs. I bet you'll get picked up for a couple of your fifteen minutes.

aj RVPR Rank Location Has Photo - 7/23/2009 6:25:22 PM
and the creativity never ends. must have been all that time spent in think and do as a child.

rvining RVPR Rank Location Staff Page Has Photo - 7/24/2009 2:57:03 PM
I even got the A-B-B-A stressed-unstressed iambic pentameter (or whatever) right on this thing. check the math.

aj RVPR Rank Location Has Photo - 7/24/2009 9:42:04 PM
we're practicing for a video. miss south carolina isn't fitting.

Gina RVPR Rank Location Has Photo - 8/3/2009 6:05:37 AM
two thumbs up.

rvining RVPR Rank Location Staff Page Has Photo - 8/3/2009 1:02:19 PM
aj was making a video of this... but then she had a baby. that probably puts the release date back a bit.

aj RVPR Rank Location Has Photo - 9/3/2009 3:49:24 PM
yes, the release date is pushed back until further notice. still need to change miss south carolina part. doesn't fit.

aj RVPR Rank Location Has Photo - 9/22/2009 10:59:42 AM
you were right about blockbuster (a few years back). but what ever happened to the batteries plus wager? it's still open.

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