не мы это начали

[raf_sh]

We Didn’t Start the Fire
Song by Billy Joel (1989)

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

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 and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, 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

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

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go
U2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

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

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?

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

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 shore, China's under martial law
Rock and roller, cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire

Comments

[evizvarina.livejournal.com]

[jalla00.livejournal.com]

[gern-babushka13.livejournal.com]

[gern-babushka13.livejournal.com]

Класс. Все-таки не все узнаю. Перевели бы, а?

[raf-sh.livejournal.com]

Там перечисляются люди и события (в США и мире) за 1948-1989 гг., список подробно разбирается в статье Википедии по ссылке в конце.

Припев:
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

Не мы зажгли этот пожар,
Он горел всегда – с тех пор, как вертится Земля,
Не мы зажгли этот пожар,
Нет, не мы его запалили, но мы старались его загасить.

И вариант припева в предпоследнем куплете:

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on

Не мы зажгли этот пожар,
Он горел всегда – с тех пор, как вертится Земля,
Не мы зажгли этот пожар,
Но когда мы уйдем,
Он всё будет пылать и пылать, и пылать, и пылать, и пылать, и пылать, и пылать, и пылать…

Написано в качестве ответа юноше, сказавшему в 1989 г.: какое ужасное время для 21-летия!
В общем, вроде кушнеровского « Что ни век, то век железный»…

[gern-babushka13.livejournal.com]

Почти все места и фамилии прочитываются, но классно бы выглядел этот текст по-русски... разобрали бы на цитаты.

[raf-sh.livejournal.com]

:)