# 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:** 194
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3862 "2023-02-21T04:49:34Z")
Well it goes to St. Louis, down to Missouri Oklahoma City looks so, so pretty You’ll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico Flagstaff, Arizona, don’t forget Wynonna Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino You get hip to this kind of tip And go take that California trip Get your kicks on Route 66 ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3863 "2023-02-21T05:45:18Z")
When that sun is high In that Texas sky I’ll be buckin’ at the county fair. Amarillo by mornin’, Amarillo – I’ll be there. Amarillo By Morning – _George Strait_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3864 "2023-02-21T13:14:04Z")
Texas Oh that’s where I Belong It seems to me Texas Lonesome star Shine on The big country Texas With open skies And you For company Texas Oh prairie rose How happy I should be ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3865 "2023-02-21T14:58:55Z")
The coyotes wail along the trail Deep in the heart of Texas The rabbits rush around the brush Deep in the heart of Texas ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3866 "2023-02-21T15:59:54Z")
Yeah, they ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go They ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch 'em On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3867 "2023-02-21T17:52:41Z")
Mississippi Queen If you know what I mean Mississippi Queen She taught me everything This lady she asked me, if I would be her man? You know that I told her, I’d do what I can ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3868 "2023-02-21T17:54:24Z")
Playing with the queen of hearts Knowing it ain’t really smart The joker ain’t the only fool Who’ll do anything for you Laying out another lie Thinking 'bout a life of crime 'Cause that’s what I’ll have to do To keep me away from you ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3869 "2023-02-21T18:01:51Z")
Look at those jokers Glued to that damn hockey game Hey honey-you’ve got lots of cash Bring us round a bottle And we’ll have some laughs Gin’s what I’m drinking I was raised on robbery ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3870 "2023-02-21T18:17:52Z")
I like a good beer buzz early in the mornin’ And Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud He shreds them on the bar Then he lights every match in an oversized pack Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers Before blowing and cursing them out He’s watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on the floor ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3871 "2023-02-21T18:20:00Z")
Get a load-a RC Cola TV dinners And it takes a pink burrito For to keep me clean (for to keep me clean) ---
**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:** [February 21, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3872 "2023-02-21T18:21:40Z")
TV dinners I’m feelin’ kinda rough TV dinners This one’s kinda tough I like the enchiladas And the teriyaki too I even like the chicken If the sauce is not too blue ---
**Author:** ![Casparlatete](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/casparlatete/32/3377_2.png) [@Casparlatete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casparlatete)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3873 "2023-02-22T12:42:58Z")
Your doggie’s gonna have a puppy, and we’re running out of Coke. No enchiladas in the icebox, and the television’s broke. I saw some lipstick on your sweatshirt, I smell some perfume in your Ear. Well, if you’re gonna keep on messin’, don’t bring your business back A-here. _Speedy Gonzales, Pat Boone_ ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3874 "2023-02-22T12:58:20Z")
Now Ol’ Red he’s the damnedest dog that I’ve ever seen Got a nose that can smell a two day trail He’s a four legged tracking machine You can consider yourself mighty lucky To get past the gators and the quicksand beds But all these years that I’ve been here Ain’t nobody got past Red And the warden sang Come on somebody Why don’t you run Ol’ Red’s itchin’ to have a little fun Get my lantern Get my gun Red’ll have you treed before the mornin’ comes ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3875 "2023-02-22T13:25:19Z")
Then one day Pappy took Widder Norton Out on a jamboree And when he took her home at sun-up Brother Norton raised his gun up And chased Pappy up in the tree ---
**Author:** ![Casparlatete](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/casparlatete/32/3377_2.png) [@Casparlatete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casparlatete)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3876 "2023-02-22T16:57:49Z")
> I think that I shall never see > A poem lovely as a tree. > > A tree whose hungry mouth is prest > Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; > > A tree that looks at God all day, > And lifts her leafy arms to pray; > > A tree that may in Summer wear > A nest of robins in her hair; > > Upon whose bosom snow has lain; > Who intimately lives with rain. > > Poems are made by fools like me, > But only God can make a tree. _Trees, Paul Robeson_ ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3877 "2023-02-22T17:02:59Z")
Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) They took all the trees put ‘em in a tree museum And they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see 'em ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3878 "2023-02-22T18:06:11Z")
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3879 "2023-02-22T18:12:38Z")
Take me down to the paradise city Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take me home (oh won’t you please take me home) Take me down to the paradise city Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take me home (oh won’t you please take me home) ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3880 "2023-02-22T19:22:02Z")
I don’t know why I love her like I do All the changes you put me through Take my money, my cigarettes I haven’t seen the worst of it yet I wanna know, can you tell me Am I in love to stay? Take me to the river, drop me in the water Take me to the river, dip me in the water Washing me down, washing me down _Note: Talking Heads’ lyrics, rather than Al Green’s lyrics_ 😃 ---
**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:** [February 22, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3881 "2023-02-22T19:31:11Z")
I’m so hard to handle I’m selfish and I’m sad Now I’ve gone and lost the best baby That I ever had Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=193) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=195)