billy joel - we didn't start the fire

BJ: I had turned forty. It was 1989 and I said "Okay, what's happened in my life?" I wrote down the year 1949. Okay, Harry Truman was president. Popular singer of the day, Doris Day. China went Communist. Another popular singer, Johnny Ray. Big Broadway show, South Pacific. Journalist, Walter Winchell. Athlete, Joe Dimaggio. Then I went on to 1950... It's one of the worst melodies I've ever written. I kind of like the lyric though.