# I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396 "2025-07-02T12:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 40
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/781 "2025-09-23T01:55:11Z")
Well, she got her daddy’s car And she cruised through the hamburger stand now Seems she forgot all about the library Like she told her old man now And with the radio blastin’ Goes cruisin’ just as fast as she can now And she’ll have fun, fun, fun 'Til her daddy takes the T-Bird away ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/782 "2025-09-23T02:09:25Z")
Now all of a sudden she started to knockin’ And down in the dips, she started to rockin’ I looked in my mirror, a red light was blinkin’ The cops was after my Hot Rod Lincoln They arrested me and they put me in jail And called my pappy to throw my bail And he said, “Son, you’re gonna drive me to drinkin’ If you don’t stop drivin’ that Hot Rod Lincoln” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/783 "2025-09-23T02:16:13Z")
If the trailer’s rockin’ don’t come knockin’ on my door If you can read it’s plain to see you ain’t welcome here no more Ah, your jackrabbit lovin’ and your drinkin’ and your snorin’ don’t work for me no more So if the trailer’s rockin’ then don’t come knockin’ on my door ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/784 "2025-09-23T14:04:08Z")
Kick off your shoes, start losin’ the blues This old house ain’t got nothing to lose Seen it all for years, you start spreading the news We got room on the floor, come on, baby, shake something loose Yeah, the house is a-rockin’, don’t bother knockin’ Yeah, the house is a-rockin’, don’t bother knockin’ Yeah, the house is a-rockin’, don’t bother, come on in ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/785 "2025-09-23T15:44:01Z")
Worry the bottle, Mama It’s grapefruit wine Kick off your high-heeled sneakers It’s party time The girls don’t seem to care what’s on As long as they play ‘til dawn Nothin’ but blues and Elvis And somebody else’s favorite song ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/786 "2025-09-23T18:05:34Z")
Tell Mama And all the folks back home Sometimes a man just feels He’s got to make it alone Tell Mama Why I’m leaving so soon Because this life I live Has got me sick through and through ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/787 "2025-09-23T21:48:54Z")
Momma loved us, every one Every daughter, every son She gave herself so happily That’s just the way she was, you see From dawn to dark she’d find a chore And work it 'til it was no more And every day until she died In the evening, momma cried ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/788 "2025-09-23T21:54:33Z")
Papa drove a truck nearly all his life You know it drove Mama crazy bein’ a trucker’s wife The part she couldn’t handle was the bein’ alone I guess she needed more to hold than just a telephone Papa called Mama each and every night Just to ask her how she was and if us kids were alright Mama would wait for that call to come in When Daddy’d hang, up she was gone again ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/789 "2025-09-23T22:08:24Z")
I’ve been from Tuscon to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonapah Driven every kind of rig that’s ever been made Driven the back roads so I wouldn’t get weighed And if you give me weed, whites, and wine, and you show me a sign I’ll be willin’, to be movin’ ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/790 "2025-09-24T10:46:45Z")
Standing by the window as the fog rolls in I swear I can hear the far-off music Jelly Roll is playing down in Storyville Satchmo wailing somewhere in Chicago Coltrane reaching for the notes his mind can hear They’ll remain a part of all that I know Oh, they played Feeling that won’t go away Left the sound of their souls in the air I can hear it out there and I know They left their soul shadows on my mind On my mind, on my mind ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/791 "2025-09-24T12:50:17Z")
Do you want to drive to ride mount on your pony Loosen up my tie to help me breathe Insisting that I pay my alimony Each and every day is the same old scene Come on do the roll, do the roll with me Come on do the roll, do the roll with me I said honey, I said honey I said honey, I said honey Come on do the honey roll with me ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/792 "2025-09-24T13:07:13Z")
Hey now baby Let’s do the rump Hey yeah darlin’ Let’s do the rump Do the rump Till the broad daylight, road daylight ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/793 "2025-09-25T21:13:43Z")
My name is Humpty, pronounced with a Umpty Yo, ladies, oh, how I like to funk thee And all the rappers in the top ten Please allow me to bump thee ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/794 "2025-09-25T21:19:59Z")
I’ve got a Humpty Dumpty heart You dropped it and broke it apart All the King’s horses All the King’s men Could never put it together again Cause when I gave to you my heart you said that we must part That was my doom my heart went boom I got a Humpty Dumpty heart ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/795 "2025-09-25T22:03:03Z")
Bandylegs, Jellybottom, Crookshanks Ferdinand, Engelbert, Bembo Knobblyknees, Fly-By-Night, Scragbeard? No, no the little man said You’ll have to do better than that. And he crept away to his house in the wood Where he danced around a fire singing – Crankinghorn, Scallywag, Shortstuff Balthazar, Melchior, Caspar? Perhaps your name is Rumpelstiltskin! Who told you that, who told you that? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/796 "2025-09-26T16:15:40Z")
Bone digger, bone digger Dogs in the moonlight Far away in my well-lit door Mr. Beer Belly, Beer Belly Get these mutts away from me, you know I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore Oh, if you would be my bodyguard, I can be your long-lost pal I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/797 "2025-09-26T20:55:36Z")
[Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy But here’s my number, so call me maybe It’s hard to look right at you, baby But here’s my number, so call me maybe](https://genius.com/14946409/Carly-rae-jepsen-call-me-maybe/Hey-i-just-met-you-and-this-is-crazy-but-heres-my-number-so-call-me-maybe-its-hard-to-look-right-at-you-baby-but-heres-my-number-so-call-me-maybe-hey-i-just-met-you-and-this-is-crazy-but-heres-my-number-so-call-me-maybe-and-all-the-other-boys-try-to-chase-me-but-heres-my-number-so-call-me-maybe) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/798 "2025-09-26T21:01:39Z")
You know my name Look up the number You know my name Look up the number You, you know, you know my name You, you know, you know my name ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/799 "2025-09-26T22:24:09Z")
Punished for his written thoughts Starving for his fame Working blindly, building blocks Number for a name His blood flows frozen to the snow Red blood, white snow He knows frozen rivers won’t flow So cold, so true Mother Russia-he cries for You ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/800 "2025-09-27T15:48:05Z")
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