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Song Parodies -> "I Didn't Start the Fire"
Original Song Title:
"We Didn't Start the Fire"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Billy Joel
Parody Song Title:
"I Didn't Start the Fire"
Parody Written by:
metvguy
The Lyrics
Commemorating the historical events of the first 21 years of my life.
'84 Ronald Reagan, Band-Aid, Sikh troops, Baby Fae,
South Africa, Walter Mondale, Sandinista
'85 Gorbachev, MTV, Bernard Goetz, HIV,
Airline Terror, Soccer Riots, foreclosing farms
'86 Challenger, Haiti, Chernobyl, Khadafy,
Halley's Comet, Rhenquist, Aquino, Iceland
'87 Andy Warhol, frigate, Wall Street has a bad day,
Ollie North, Iran-Contra, Lieberace goodbye
(chorus)
I didn't start the fire
But the world is dire
And the flames climb higher
I didn't start the fire
No, they tried to blame us
"Cause the blaze will flame us
'88 Perestroika, crack cocaine, Mike Dukakis, stealth plane,
Rain Man, Mike Tyson, Pan-Am 103
'89 Hirohito, Rushdie, George Bush, Exxon Valdez,
Berlin Wall falls, Germany is free
'90 Noriega, Cold War, Greg Lemond wins the Tour,
Kuwait, Hubble Scope, Free Poland, El Salvador
'91 Boris Yeltsin, Bosnia, Desert Storm, Arabia,
C.I.S., Budapest, no more U.S.S.R.
(chorus)
'92 Ross Perot, Serbia, Carl Lewis, Somalia,
Clinton, Rodney King, Abortion, John Gotti
'93 Arthur Ashe, Waco, Yitzak Rabin, PLO,
Twin Towers, Midwest flood, Germany has tainted blood
'94 Richard Nixon, OJ, Whitewater, IRA,
Rwanda, Mandela, refugees from Cuba
'95 Kobe Earthquake, Gingrich, Million Man March,
Royal Divorce, trade ban, Terror in the Heartland
(chorus)
'96 Bob Dole, TWA, cloned sheep, quilt for AIDS,
Chechnya, Braveheart, tension in the Persian Gulf
'97 Heaven's Gate, land mines, Titanic, Princess Di,
Teresa, Zaire, British nanny affair
'98 Home Runs, Gene Autry, Monica Lewinsky,
Embassies blown away, what else do I have to say?
(chorus)
'99-'05 Columbine, JFK, Al Gore & Y2K,
hanging chad, Florida, George W., market's bad,
Napster, stem cells, Concorde, 9-11 terror,
DC Snipers, Bin Laden, U.S. troops, Afghanistan,
DVDs, MP3s, gangster rap, obesity,
war protests, fighter jets, SARS, FEMA, nation's debt,
New Pope, Hurricanes, Tsunami, Lack of Aid, Reality TV Wars, I've had enough now, no more
I didn't start the fire
But the world is dire
And the flames climb higher
I didn't start the fire
And when I am gone
It burns on and on and on
(repeat chorus till fade)
South Africa, Walter Mondale, Sandinista
'85 Gorbachev, MTV, Bernard Goetz, HIV,
Airline Terror, Soccer Riots, foreclosing farms
'86 Challenger, Haiti, Chernobyl, Khadafy,
Halley's Comet, Rhenquist, Aquino, Iceland
'87 Andy Warhol, frigate, Wall Street has a bad day,
Ollie North, Iran-Contra, Lieberace goodbye
(chorus)
I didn't start the fire
But the world is dire
And the flames climb higher
I didn't start the fire
No, they tried to blame us
"Cause the blaze will flame us
'88 Perestroika, crack cocaine, Mike Dukakis, stealth plane,
Rain Man, Mike Tyson, Pan-Am 103
'89 Hirohito, Rushdie, George Bush, Exxon Valdez,
Berlin Wall falls, Germany is free
'90 Noriega, Cold War, Greg Lemond wins the Tour,
Kuwait, Hubble Scope, Free Poland, El Salvador
'91 Boris Yeltsin, Bosnia, Desert Storm, Arabia,
C.I.S., Budapest, no more U.S.S.R.
(chorus)
'92 Ross Perot, Serbia, Carl Lewis, Somalia,
Clinton, Rodney King, Abortion, John Gotti
'93 Arthur Ashe, Waco, Yitzak Rabin, PLO,
Twin Towers, Midwest flood, Germany has tainted blood
'94 Richard Nixon, OJ, Whitewater, IRA,
Rwanda, Mandela, refugees from Cuba
'95 Kobe Earthquake, Gingrich, Million Man March,
Royal Divorce, trade ban, Terror in the Heartland
(chorus)
'96 Bob Dole, TWA, cloned sheep, quilt for AIDS,
Chechnya, Braveheart, tension in the Persian Gulf
'97 Heaven's Gate, land mines, Titanic, Princess Di,
Teresa, Zaire, British nanny affair
'98 Home Runs, Gene Autry, Monica Lewinsky,
Embassies blown away, what else do I have to say?
(chorus)
'99-'05 Columbine, JFK, Al Gore & Y2K,
hanging chad, Florida, George W., market's bad,
Napster, stem cells, Concorde, 9-11 terror,
DC Snipers, Bin Laden, U.S. troops, Afghanistan,
DVDs, MP3s, gangster rap, obesity,
war protests, fighter jets, SARS, FEMA, nation's debt,
New Pope, Hurricanes, Tsunami, Lack of Aid, Reality TV Wars, I've had enough now, no more
I didn't start the fire
But the world is dire
And the flames climb higher
I didn't start the fire
And when I am gone
It burns on and on and on
(repeat chorus till fade)
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THAT was supposed to be FUNNY??
Nice try. I tried it myself, rhyming "Exorcist" with "Enemies List." That was good. "Broad Street Bullies, Evel K, Tricky Dick flies away" wasn't. "Jimmy Carter, Star Wars flies, punk and disco, Elvis dies" was okay. "Olympic hockey, Polish solidarity" was awful. "John Lennon blown away" was obvious. "Carl Lewis, New Coke, Reagan's Russian bombing joke" bombed. I was proud of "Clinton plays the saxophone, bigots in the Astrodome." I guess the moral of the story is, if you're not as talented as Billy Joel, you ain't gonna set anything on fire.
It takes more than just filling in the blanks to write a parody, no matter if you were being sincere with the historical list in the verses.
This is not exactly an easy record to parody, so on the face of it, this is quite an interesting effort. It made me laugh
I thought this wsa quite the effort. A hard song to parody, and it did manage laughs out of me.
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