We Didn’t Start the Fire lyrics

[Verse 1]
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Charles the 6th hath gone insane
Reconquista
Geoffrey Chaucer, Michelangelo
Marco Polo, Magna Carta
Christian Schism, Siege of Acre
Byzantine iconoclasm
Guillaume de Machaut

Charlemagne, Alfred
Anne Boleyn without a head
Few things here to read
But the Nibelungenlied
Castile with Aragon
Second pope in Avignon
Novgorod, Chinggis Khan
Beowulf, Decameron

[Chorus]
We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
Wе did not start the fire
No, we did not light it
But wе tried to fight it
[Verse 2]
Henry Tudor, Saladin
Richard and the Winter King
Lindisfarne, Norse raids
Children on crusade
Rome gone, Castillon
Mona Lisa, King John
Kalmar Union
Hanseatic trade

Kipchaks horseback
Constantinople sacked
Song of Roland, silk demand
Wallachia, Holy Land
Grunwald, Manzikert
Barbarossa, Golden Spurs
Joan of Arc, Patriarch
Battle of Lepanto!

[Chorus]
We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 3]
Canterbury, Nikephoros
Alchemy, Matthias Corvinus
Khan Krum, Sicily
Normans land in Italy
Hippodrome, Notre Dame
Timur in Afghanistan
Double prince homicide
Seven papal regicides

Edinburgh, Malta
Wenceslaus, Bohemia
Hunedoara stronghold
Mansa Musa’s got gold
Ghazi, Gutenberg
Baghdad and Mosul burn
Gunpowder twofold
Panic, it's the Mongols!

[Chorus]
We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it
But we tried to fight it
[Verse 4]
Antioch, Sassanids
Spaniards in a strange land
Fatimids, El Cid
Ottoman invasion
Rashidun Arabia
Christian relicmania
Hussites, Swiss pikes
Executing Templar Knights
Lichtenauer, Skanderbeg
Holding off the Pechenegs
Black plague, here to stay
What else do I dare to say?

[Chorus]
We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No, we did not light it
But we tried to fight it

[Verse 5]
Nicaea, troubadours
William Wallace torn in four
Falkirk, glasswork
Stamford Bridge, Göktürks
Three-year famine, medicine
Barons oust a sovereign
Carrouges versus Jacques le Gris
Carracks sail across the sea

Walpurgis Fechtbuch
Arslan and the Seljuks
Clontarf, Lombards
Habsburgs, Bannockburn
Church denied by Thomas More
Montezuma is no more
Curse this German Peasants’ War
I can't take it anymore!

[Outro]
We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
We did not start the fire
But when we are gone
It shall still burn on and on and on

We did not start the fire
'Twas always burning
As the world was turning
We did not start the fire
No we did not light it
But we tried to fight it