# I've seen fire and I've seen rain 2 (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254 "2020-06-23T04:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 179
**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:** [January 23, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3562 "2023-01-23T16:51:50Z")
Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout a new way of walkin’ Do you want to lose your mind? Walk right in, sit right down Daddy, let your mind roll on ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3563 "2023-01-23T19:20:10Z")
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer Those days of soda and pretzels and beer Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3564 "2023-01-23T19:22:57Z")
Spring is here A-suh-puh-ring is here Life is skittles and life is beer I think the loveliest time Of the year is the spring I do, don’t you? 'Course you do But there’s one thing That makes spring complete for me And makes every Sunday A treat for me All the world seems in tune On a spring afternoon When we’re poisoning pigeons in the park Every Sunday you’ll see My sweetheart and me As we poison the pigeons in the park ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3565 "2023-01-24T14:51:36Z")
I’m sittin’ in my room, I’m starin’ out my window And I wonder where you’ve gone Thinking back on the happy hours just before the dawn Outside the wind is blowin’ It seems to call your name again Where have you gone City streets and lonely highways I travel down My car is empty and the radio just seems to bring me down I’m just tryin’ to find me A pretty smile that I can get into It’s true, I’m lost without you Another lonely park, another Sunday Why is it life turns out that way Just when you think you got a good thing It seems to slip away ---
**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:** [January 24, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3566 "2023-01-24T15:50:43Z")
Rene and Georgette Magritte With their dog after the war Were strolling down Christopher Street When they stopped in a men’s store With all of the mannequins dressed in the style They brought tears to their immigrant eyes ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3567 "2023-01-24T16:57:37Z")
Free Only want to be free We huddle close Hang on to a dream On the boats and on the planes They’re coming to America Never looking back again They’re coming to America ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3568 "2023-01-24T19:21:04Z")
You called all the way from America And said hang on to love girl But the weeks and the months and the tears Passed by And my eyes couldn’t stand the strain Of that promised love All the way from America ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3569 "2023-01-25T01:10:00Z")
Going 90 mph with her hair on fire Running on a tank full of burning desire She’s heading out old highway #29 Leaving Loachapoka Alambama behind Leaving Loachapoka ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3570 "2023-01-25T02:35:42Z")
I thought happiness was Lubbock Texas in my rearview mirror My mama kept calling me home but I just did not want to hear her ---
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3571 "2023-01-25T02:56:24Z")
Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas With Waylon and Willie and the boys This successful life we’re livin’ Got us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys Between Hank Williams’ pain songs and Newbury’s train songs and “Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain” Out in Luckenbach, Texas, ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3572 "2023-01-25T06:31:12Z")
We’re just two little girls from Little Rock. We lived on the wrong side of the tracks. But the gentlemen friends who used to call, They never did seem to mind at all. They came to the wrong side of the tracks. Then someone broke my heart in Little Rock, So I up and left the pieces there. Like a little lost lamb I roamed about, I came to New York and I found out That men are the same way everywhere. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3573 "2023-01-25T14:27:33Z")
Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas An old man sat in his [little](https://www.definitions.net/definition/little) cabin door And [fiddled](https://www.definitions.net/definition/fiddled) at a tune that he [liked](https://www.definitions.net/definition/liked) to hear A [jolly](https://www.definitions.net/definition/jolly) old tune that he [played](https://www.definitions.net/definition/played) by ear. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3574 "2023-01-25T21:37:07Z")
In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip’ We took a little bacon and we took a little beans And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’ There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago We fired once more and they began to runnin’ On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3575 "2023-01-25T21:43:41Z")
In the heart of the night In the cool southern rain There’s a full moon in sight Shining down on the Pontchartrain And the river she rises Just like she used to do She’s so full of surprises She reminds me of you In the heart of the night In the heart of the night In the heart of the night Oh, whoa, down in New Orleans ---
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3576 "2023-01-25T22:45:54Z")
Well, way down yonder in New Orleans in the land of the dreamy scenes There’s a Garden of Eden, ah, you know what I mean Yeah, Creole babies with flashin’ eyes softly whisper with tender sighs And then you stop Oh won’t you give your lady fair a little smile And then you stop You bet your life you’ll linger there a little while ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3577 "2023-01-26T02:28:01Z")
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean Lived a girl, that I swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Polk salad Annie, gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame Because her mama was a workin’ on the chain gang ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3578 "2023-01-26T03:37:51Z")
My darlin’ New Orlins My brawlin’ hometown Your magnolia melancholy How it sets me down In corner bars On streetcars Hear that foghorn river sound The big oaks The old folks Beards of moss, hangin’ down ---
**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:** [January 26, 2023, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3579 "2023-01-26T12:08:46Z")
Take a box One that rocks Take a blue horn New Orleans born You take a stick With a lick Take a bone Ho ho, hold the phone ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3580 "2023-01-26T14:33:44Z")
Good morning America, how are you? Say, don’t you know me? I’m your native son I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3581 "2023-01-27T15:21:18Z")
Kathy, I’m lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They’ve all come to look for America All come to look for America All come to look for America [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=178) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=180)