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Write the next verse to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

Here the last two verses to the song. I think it'd be interesting if it were updated.

[quote] Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

[quote] Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

[quote] "Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania

[quote] Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

[quote] Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex

[quote] JFK, 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

[quote] Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again

[quote] Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

[quote] Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline

[quote] Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

[quote] "Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide

[quote] Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz

[quote] Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law

[quote] Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

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by Anonymousreply 8June 20, 2018 3:30 PM

I can't rhyme, but I'd include Columbine, 9/11, Brexit, #MeToo, Gulf War, hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Putin, Trump, Sadam Hussein, Princess Diana's death, Obama, Clinton, social media, and climate change.

by Anonymousreply 1June 20, 2018 8:00 AM

Lol, should be tsunami in Thailand,

by Anonymousreply 2June 20, 2018 8:01 AM

This is a GREAT idea for a thread!

by Anonymousreply 3June 20, 2018 8:25 AM

Jon Benet, OJ Simpson, sarin gas, we elect Bush Number 2

Kurt Cobain grunge suicide, buddhas blown up in Afghanistan

Paris Hilton, obesity crisis, Lindsay Lohan becomes a thief

Peak Oil, Paleo diets, hipsters, clean eating, and learning to die in the anthopocene

Dentist killing mighty beast, bastas Don jr&Eric hunting brahs, opiate addiction, fentanyl pushers

Goodbye Prince and Make America Great Again

by Anonymousreply 4June 20, 2018 8:54 AM

Diana dead!

(and I'd add the Diana dead scream as a sound effect a la violin screech when Psycho is sung)

by Anonymousreply 5June 20, 2018 8:57 AM

Billy Joel chronicled world events and pop culture from 1949 -1989, so I guess 89 would be the starting point?

Berlin, Exxon, Russians leave Afghanistan, murder in Tienanmen

No more Cold War, Europe forms a union, Gorbachev, Warsaw pact,

Rodney King, riots, Mandela, Rwanda genocide, Wacko in Waco, Baseball strike.

Oklahoma, Bosnia, O.J., Lady Di, Yitzhak Rabin.

Harry Potter, Taliban, Mad Cow, cell phones, Google.

Kosovo, Columbine, Y2K, what else do I have to say?

by Anonymousreply 6June 20, 2018 9:27 AM
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by Anonymousreply 7June 20, 2018 9:31 AM

The song is too fast, hard to get the rhythm/right amount of syllables right and be able to rhyme.

by Anonymousreply 8June 20, 2018 3:30 PM
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