So, for some unknown reason, I started a mission of learning the lyrics to this infamous "list song" (infamous to me, list songs are ridiculous because there's no plot to follow when remembering. Anyway. Here I am, almost completely singing the song to a karaoke track ...at 200% the speed. lol.
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The lyrics are:
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,
& The Catcher In The Rye,
Eisenhower,
Vaccine,
England's got a new queen
Marciano,
Liberace,
Santayana goodbye
!
We didn't start the fire [etc...]
Joseph Stalin,
Malenkov,
Nasser
& 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 [etc...]
Little Rock,
Pasternak,
Mickey Mantle,
Kerouac,
Sputnik,
Zhou Enlai,
"
Bridge On The River Kwai".
Lebanon,
Charles 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
& Kennedy
Chubby Checker,
"Psycho",
Belgians in the Congo!
We didn't start the fire [etc...]
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,
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–What else do I have to say?
We didn't start the fire [etc...]
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 'n' Roller Cola Wars,
–I can't take it anymore!
We didn't start the fire [etc...]
It's the worst list song since "La Vie Bohéme" from RENT (lol, get it? RENT came out after WDSTF). I jokingly say worst, I mean, it's most guilty of being a list song (thoe of which, I keep a list of. lol, it's called "LIST SONGS". If y'all have any you can think of that'd be cool!!
Anyway, "enjoy"?
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