Lyrics

First-Years Don't Get Hired

to "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel

Mid-August school starts, buy your books and hit the bars Wine, beer, free food, BarBri wants your cash Legal Methods, fake class, Ginsburg gunners raise their hands Greenawalt, Sovern, Strauss, everyone will pass Real classes start slow, Contracts, Torts, and Civ Pro Legal writing, outlines, laughing at the deadlines Memos written and revised, who failed Legal Methods twice?! Student senate, 1L reps, can I get your notes, guys? First-years don't get hired We do all this reading But it's so misleading 'Cause first-years don't get hired Professors keep assigning There's no use in whining Goldberg, Sanger, Williams, White, Katz and Morrison No choice, no change, study group's a must Eisenberg, rock star, contracts isn't so hard Bargain for it, Shiwon Choe's a poet Sharkey, Blasi, Murphy, who has Rapaczynski? For torts, Narasimhan, or that other Liebman Greenberg, Goldberg's room change, what the hell did Dorf say? Civ Pro, oh no, I got Glannon's, it's okay! First-years don't get hired Law firms visit here Then say come back next year 'Cause first-years don't get hired We buy our books online Never pay rent on time Spring semester, we're back, get our grades and heart attacks Every day more mail, firms won't hire 1Ls Crim law, what fun, death penalty, Liebman Edgar, Coffee thinks you're wrong, Lynch meets at the crack of dawn We got stuck with Reg State: Gordon, Katz, and Dr. Sage Boring class, bad reviews, Anderson can't hear you Perspectives requirement, Waldron's awesome accent Crazy test by Ferguson, get thrown out by Moglen First-years don't get hired The student loans we take To buy the books we hate 'Cause first-years don't get hired Eat lunch at 12:30 'Cause the pizza's free Con law, Metzger, lots to read, lord knows when she'll call on me Henkin sleeping, read the constitution Thomas controversy over gays and Nazis Get well, god speed, can we get our grades please? Professor from Michigan, Catholic or Protestant Query, Schmutter's raisin bran, Richard Primus is the man! First-years don't get hired So I started strippin' Just to pay tuition 'Cause first-years don't get hired We fight for summer grants Get funding from parents Dean's cup vs. NYU, Primus falls, we do too Downtown, beat down, third time in a row now Summer funding, second-rate, email student senate slate Ousted reps bitter, "Suddenly Schizer" Barrister's Ball, school prom, get your tickets, bring your mom Drink some more, try to score, pass out on the bathroom floor Finals end, out the doors, finished with the 1L core Apply to journals, work some more, Columbia, we're number four! First-years don't get hired I had to sell a kidney 'Cause review books ain't cheap First-years don't get hired This summer work for free Just wait for EIP!

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny 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 Maciano, 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, Dancron 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, Khrushchev 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 Starkwether, 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, Eichman, 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 J.F.K. 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 shores, 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 Will it still burn on...

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