{"id":90498,"date":"2024-12-13T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=90498"},"modified":"2024-08-12T19:07:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T23:07:29","slug":"we-didnt-start-the-fire-bardcore-medieval-renaissance-style-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/13\/we-didnt-start-the-fire-bardcore-medieval-renaissance-style-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire&#8221; (Bardcore | Medieval\/Renaissance Style Cover)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drDs-Y5DNH8?si=8eNqOSRM6E4QMTZ5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hildegard von Blingin&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Jul 16, 2024<\/p>\n<p>There are many covers of Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire&#8221; 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. <\/p>\n<p>The image of the monk is from MS Bodleian 602. A scribe at his desk \u00a9 The Bodleian Libraries Oxford<br \/>\nThere are simply too many other images to credit here, but the majority are public domain from wiki media.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Eleanor of Aquitaine,<br \/>\nCharles the 6th<br \/>\nHath gone insane<br \/>\nReconquista<br \/>\nGeoffrey Chaucer, <br \/>\nMichelangelo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Marco Polo, <br \/>\nMagna Carta<br \/>\nChristian Schism<br \/>\nSiege of Acre,<br \/>\nByzantine iconoclasm<br \/>\nGuillaume de Machaut<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We did not start the fire<br \/>\nIt was always burning as the world was turning<br \/>\nWe did not start the fire<br \/>\nNo we did not light it, but we tried to fight it<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Charlemagne, <br \/>\nAlfred<br \/>\nAnne Boleyn<br \/>\nWithout a head<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>Few things<br \/>\nHere to read<br \/>\nBut the Nibelungenlied<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Castile with<br \/>\nAragon<br \/>\nSecond pope in Avignon<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Novgorod,<br \/>\nChinggis Khan <br \/>\nBeowulf, Decameron<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Henry Tudor, <br \/>\nSaladin<br \/>\nRichard and the Winter King<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lindisfarne,<br \/>\nNorse raids<br \/>\nChildren on crusade<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rome gone, <br \/>\nCastillon<br \/>\nMona Lisa, <br \/>\nKing John<br \/>\nKalmar Union, <br \/>\nHanseatic trade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kipchaks<br \/>\nHorseback<br \/>\nConstantinople sacked<br \/>\nSong of Roland, <br \/>\nSilk demand,<br \/>\nWallachia, <br \/>\nHoly Land<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Grunwald, <br \/>\nManzikert, <br \/>\nBarbarossa, <br \/>\nGolden Spurs<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joan of Arc, <br \/>\nPatriarch<br \/>\nBattle of Lepanto!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canterbury,<br \/>\nNikephoros<br \/>\nAlchemy, <br \/>\nMatthias Corvinus<br \/>\nKhan Krum, <br \/>\nSicily<br \/>\nNormans land in Italy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hippodrome, <br \/>\nNotre Dame<br \/>\nTimur in Afghanistan <br \/>\nDouble prince homicide<br \/>\nSeven papal regicides<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Edinburgh, <br \/>\nMalta<br \/>\nWenceslaus, <br \/>\nBohemia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hunedoara stronghold<br \/>\nMansa Musa\u2019s got gold<br \/>\nGhazi, <br \/>\nGutenberg<br \/>\nBaghdad and Mosul burn<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gunpowder twofold<br \/>\nPanic, it&#8217;s the Mongols!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Antioch, <br \/>\nSassanids<br \/>\nSpaniards in a strange land<br \/>\nFatimids, <br \/>\nEl Cid<br \/>\nOttoman invasion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rashidun Arabia<br \/>\nChristian relicmania<br \/>\nHussites, <br \/>\nSwiss pikes<br \/>\nExecuting Templar Knights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lichtenauer, <br \/>\nSkanderbeg<br \/>\nHolding off the Pechenegs<br \/>\nBlack plague, here to stay<br \/>\nWhat else do I dare to say?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nicaea, <br \/>\nTroubadours<br \/>\nWilliam Wallace torn in four<br \/>\nFalkirk<br \/>\nGlasswork<br \/>\nStamford Bridge, <br \/>\nG\u00f6kt\u00fcrks<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>3 year Famine,<br \/>\nMedicine <br \/>\nBarons oust a sovereign<br \/>\nCarrouges versus Jacques le Gris<br \/>\nCarracks sail across the sea<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Walpurgis Fechtbuch<br \/>\nArslan and the Seljuks<br \/>\nClontarf, <br \/>\nLombards<br \/>\nHabsburgs,<br \/>\nBannockburn<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Church denied by Thomas More<br \/>\nMontezuma is no more<br \/>\nCurse this German Peasants\u2019 War<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t take it anymore!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We did not start the fire<br \/>\nIt was always burning as the world was turning<br \/>\nWe did not start the fire<br \/>\nBut when we are gone, it shall still burn on and on and on<br \/>\nWe did not start the fire<br \/>\nIt was always burning as the world was turning<br \/>\nWe did not start the fire<br \/>\nNo we did not light it, but we tried to fight it<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hildegard von Blingin&#8217; Published Jul 16, 2024 There are many covers of Billy Joel&#8217;s &#8220;We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire&#8221; 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. 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