"WELL, I DIDN'T START IT EITHER..."

I hope I can be forgiven for this one. Okay, now I want no comments on the massive liberties I made with both the rhyme scheme and the history in what eventually turned out to be probably the most researched song parody ever written...You can throw in any ideas you have; anything I might have left out, and frankly if you can figure out how this crams into its music I'll send you a virtual biscuit...

With frank apologies to Billy Joel.

Ben Goodridge

Parody of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire."

Scythians and Neuri, Gilgamesh and Odyssey,
Damarchus of Arcadia, Concord and Discordia
Patronius "Satyricon," Eclogues and King Lykaon
Romulus and Remus, Saint Patrick and Saint Albeus

Hrafnsmal and golly-gee, Canon Episcopi
Vseslav of Polock, how those Christian people talk
Guillame de Palerne, Lay of the Bisclavaret,
Volsungasaga, Lai de Melieon

We didn't start the fire
But we kept it burning as we kept on learning
We didn't start the fire
And we never fight it when we get excited

Malleus Maleficarum, Else of Meerberg, Hessian,
Lucerne, Padua, Poligny, Riga.
Witekind, Johann Weyer, Olaus Magnus, Garnier,
Naturalis Magiae, Trials of Benandanti

De Praestigiis Demonum, Roman Rebellion
Boguet of Auvergne, Peter Stubb in Cologne
Discours des Sorciers, trial of Jean Grenier
Duchess of Malfi, famines of Franche-Comte

We didn't start the fire
But we kept it burning as we kept on learning
We didn't start the fire
But it kept on growing and it's never slowing

Little Red Riding Hood, William Theiss says he's good
Bete de Gevaudon, Victor of Aveyron
Brothers Grimm, Albigenses, got to get a load of these
Antoine Leger's through, Warriors of the Briole Sioux

Freud, Jung, Aveyron, Robert Louis Stevenson
Published reading far and wide, Doctor Jekyll / Mr. Hyde
Kamala and Amala, wolf-kids found in Orissa
Lon Chaney Jr., right on time, then the House of Frankenstein

Michael Landon, Shamdeo, John Landis, French ergot
Silver bullet, Monsieur X, Teenage Werewolf, guess who's next
Michael Jackson, Nicholson, Pfeiffer's film was number one
One more verse, I ain't through yet, Werewolves on the Internet!

Bob Picardo, did you see, or Angela Landsbury
Howling 1, 2, 3 and 4, hold on tight they made three more
Furnation mania, Werewolves of Suburbia,
Wreck of the Amanda K, what else do I have to say?

We didn't start the fire
But we kept it burning as we kept on learning
We didn't start the fire
But it kept on growing and it's never slowing