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▶ Spotify: ▶ Consider supporting the channel on Patreon: There are many covers of Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire that adapt it to different times, but we wanted to give it the bardcore treatment. *Unlike the original, the list is not chronological, and jumps around in time a lot. It very loosely spans from around 400 to 1600, and is from a rather Eurocentric point of view. Thank you to my brother, Friar Funk, for devising the lyrics and providing the majority of the vocals. Many thanks as well to his new wife and our dad for joining us in the chorus at the end. The image of the monk is from MS Bodleian 602. A scribe at his desk © The Bodleian Libraries Oxford There are simply too many other images to credit here, but the majority are public domain from wiki media. Lyrics: 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 We did not start the fire It was 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 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 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 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 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 Nicaea, Troubadours William Wallace torn in four Falkirk Glasswork Stamford Bridge, Göktürks 3 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! We did not start the fire It was 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 It was 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
