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A chapter in the book Contest Collage

the world's on fire

by shelley kaye

Contest Winner 

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Background



lech walesa, hubble space, gulf war
Boris Yeltsin, anita hill, gorbachev resigns
bush and quayle, and clinton and gore

took three hour tour with oj on I5
mlb strike ends, sox wins the series
charles and diana divorce
police beat up rodney king
monica lewinski blows off the president
and heaven's gate collapses
are we still alive?

[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it

nelson mandela, vaclav havel
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, toni morrison
eileen collins, thabo mbeki, hilary clinton
vladimir putin, vicente fox quesada,
vojislav kostunica, and another bush in
everyone needs therapy, cheapest is paper and pen

anthrax scares
reality tv dares
then comes osama bin laden
and no one can forget 9/11

[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it

arafat, north korea withdraws
rumfeld, california gets new "governator"

hussein captured, enron, war with iraqi
al-qaeda, gays finally allowed to marry
still stuck with the bush - more years: four

sandra day o'connor retires,
princess di dies, mother teresa dies
pope john paul II dies,
katrina hits as wind and rain fly
and pluto's a planet no more

[CHORUS]
the world's on fire
it's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
we lit it
now we're trying to fight it

the world's on fire
It's always burning
since life's been turning
the world's on fire
guiding light hits fifty
and gets blinded
as the world turns follows
as the fire burns
on and on and on and on....






Contest Winner


okay like ya all remember we didn't start the fire by billy joel right? will this contest asked ya to like "continue" with the song for 1990 to present

like here is the original lyrics:
we didn't start the fire
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" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana 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

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Con, 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, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

[ Joel Billy Lyrics are found on www.songlyrics.com ]
Lebanon, Charlse 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 and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

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
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

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