# Finish the lyrics to "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 7, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498 "2007-11-07T02:02:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/1 "2007-11-07T02:02:02Z")
My SO was jamming to Billy Joel’s greatest hits the other day, and I was reminded of [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire) great song.
What’s always bothered me about that riff, though, is that it ends in the 1980s; it’s an unfinished song. What are the next verses?
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### Author:  [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/2 "2007-11-07T02:29:21Z")
Here’s my verse for the 90’s…
George Michael with his hand
Garth Brooks video banned
SSG Schwartz
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### Author:  [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/3 "2007-11-07T03:03:58Z")
Monica with a nasty stain
Oklahoma City’s pain
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### Author:  [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/4 "2007-11-07T03:20:06Z")
Eddie Veder Kurt Cobain,
Oklahoma City’s Pain
It takes a village, Columbine
Internet goes online
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### Author:  [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/5 "2007-11-07T03:55:26Z")
From the year of my birth, 1987
Simpson’s Family in 2D
Jesse Jackson in DC
Zelda wasn’t just a game.
Prozac starts to numb our pain.
Mr. Dwyer Lost it All
Reagan’s Bringing Down the Wall
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/6 "2007-11-07T16:41:15Z")
Christie dumped my stupid butt
This song proved I’m in a rut
Crashed my car into a house
Shitty lyrics from a souse
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### Author:  [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/7 "2007-11-07T17:56:14Z")
George H. Bush starts Contra-gate
Saddam tries to assassinate
Bin Laden takes the Towers down
Moore points to the Saudi Crown
Dubya vows to pay him back
Sends the troops into Iraq
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### Author:  [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/8 "2007-11-07T18:00:11Z")
IMHO, TMI, when come back, bring back pie
chick tracts, mod hats, Gaudere’s Law
winter of our missed content, cows on the minivan
guests come, troll threads, sock puppet, train wrecks
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/9 "2007-11-07T18:06:23Z")
There was actually an attempt at this a couple of years ago on these very boards. [My entry](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6471842&postcount=5) and the [We Didn’t Go to Harvard parody](http://www.cayugaswaiters.com/new/downloads/mp3/harvard.mp3) link.
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### Author:  [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finish-the-lyrics-to-we-didnt-start-the-fire-by-billy-joel/425498/10 "2007-11-07T18:09:53Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]
Christie dumped my stupid butt
This song proved I’m in a rut
Crashed my car into a house
Shitty lyrics from a souse
[/QUOTE]
I’m sorry, you must have mistaken this thread for a toilet.
Bathroom’s down the hall.