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Ranting Randy

(341 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:55 PM Nov 12

Can Someone Please Write a New Republican Theme Song, based on the Billy Joel hit, We Didn't Start The Fire?

Perhaps we can call it "We Didn't Stop The PedaFires!"

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Can Someone Please Write a New Republican Theme Song, based on the Billy Joel hit, We Didn't Start The Fire? (Original Post) Ranting Randy Nov 12 OP
Sure then Billy will say, see you in court. Srkdqltr Nov 12 #1
Just ask him for permission or to join in. Ranting Randy Nov 12 #3
I was being a smart *** but wouldn't it be amazing? Srkdqltr Nov 12 #5
OMG EuterpeThelo Nov 12 #2
Wow. OK. Srkdqltr Nov 12 #4

EuterpeThelo

(140 posts)
2. OMG
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:31 PM
Nov 12

That would be the EXTENDED version from hell.

I redid a version of that song back in 2007...starting with the year of my own birth and continuing through (at the time) current. The final line seems SOOOOO ironic in hindsight.

(I haven't ever shared this publicly before, so in the event anyone likes it enough to share, please note it as copyright EuterpeThelo 2007. I thank you.)

Chappaquidick Island
One small step for man
Spahn Ranch, Yasgur's Farm
Bert and Ernie, Vietnam
Easy Rider, Miracle Mets
Brady Bunch, SDS
Stonewall Riots, ARPAnet
Sirhan Sirhan

Earth Day, Hendrix, Charles de Gaulle,
Janis Joplin, Altamont
Weathermen, the EPA
Four murdered at Kent State
Ban on smoking advertising
Farewell, Mr. Mojo Risin'
Willy Wonka, Yoko Ono
Plumbers in the Watergate

(CHORUS)

D.B. Cooper, Greenpeace
Godfather, WTC
George McGovern, Bloody Sunday
I am not a crook
Allende, Patty Hearst
Roe v. Wade, Exorcist
Spiro Agnew, oil embargo
Copters on the roofs

Jimmy Hoffa, Khmer Rouge
Bicentennial, Roots
Star Wars, Sons of Sam
Elvis Presley, Superman
George Moscone, HBO
Bianchi and Buono
Microwaves, test tube babes
Year of the Three Popes

(CHORUS)

Sandanistas, hostages
Three Mile Island, Reagan shot
John Lennon, MTV
Patient Zero, E.T.
Nicaragua, Grenada
Jobs and Woz and MacIntosh
Joe Montana, Live Aid,
Glasnost, Mexico quake

Cherynobyl, Larry Bird
Breakfast Club, Challenger
Iran Contra, Donna Rice
Jim Bakker, gene splice
Black Monday, Lockerbie
Dan Quayle, Calgary
S&L, Panama
Collapse of the Berlin Wall

(CHORUS)

Beijing, Desert Storm
Rodney King, Clinton-Gore
WACO, Canseco, strife in Sarajevo
White bronco, Kurt Cobain
Newt Gingrich, Tim McVeigh

Unabomber, World Wide Web
Princess Di, Taliban
Dolly cloned, Slim Shady
Vast right-wing conspiracy
Trenchcoat mafia, eBay
Napster, Putin, Y2K

(CHORUS)

Hanging chads, Bush v. Gore
Dot-com burst, Survivor
Mad cow, Enron, Osama bin Laden
iPod, Idol, war on terror
Shock and awe and massive error

Heat wave, Abu Ghraib,
Teri Schiavo, MySpace
Gitmo, a Nazi Pope
Panic when the levees broke
Inconvenient Truth movie
Dems win (thanks to Mark Foley)

Psycho at Virginia Tech
Melamine to feed our pets
DOJ Attorney scandal
Paris, Scooter in the slammer
Longer than the older song
That's 'cause so much more's gone wrong!

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