# 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:** 197
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3922 "2023-02-26T07:05:13Z")
I’m leavin’ on a jet plane Don’t know when I’ll be back again… ---
**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 26, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3923 "2023-02-26T07:26:22Z")
Jet Jet Jet I can almost remember their funny faces That time you told them you were going to marrying soon And Jet I thought the only lonely place was on the moon ---
**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 26, 2023, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3924 "2023-02-26T09:24:56Z")
Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of houses, never home Church full of singing, out of tune Everyone’s gone to the moon. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 26, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3925 "2023-02-26T12:59:51Z")
Moonlight becomes you, it goes with your hair You certainly know the right thing to wear Moonlight becomes you, I′m thrilled at the sight And I could get so romantic tonight You’re all dressed up to go dreaming Now don′t tell me I’m wrong And what a night to go dreaming Mind if I tag along? _Moonlight Becomes You. Bing Crosby_ ---
**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 26, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3926 "2023-02-26T13:07:36Z")
We like our fun and we never fight You can’t dance and stay uptight It’s a supernatural delight Everybody was dancin’ in the moonlight ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3927 "2023-02-26T19:16:46Z")
My grandpa he’s 95 He keeps on dancin’ he’s still alive My grandma she’s 92 She loves to dance and sing some too I don’t know but I’ve been told If you keep on dancin’ You’ll never grow old So come darling put a pretty dress on We’re going to go out tonight ---
**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 26, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3928 "2023-02-26T19:24:12Z")
Put on your red dress, baby Lord, we goin’ out tonight Put on your red dress, baby Lord, we goin’ out tonight And wear some boxin’ gloves In case some fool might wanna fight ---
**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 26, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3929 "2023-02-26T19:36:00Z")
Oooooohhh, yeah I wanna go to paradise My devil in a red dress Why you never come to me ---
**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 26, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3930 "2023-02-26T22:14:57Z")
I’m looking for something in red, Like the one that I wore when I first turned his head. Strapless and sequined and cut down to there, Just a size larger than I wore last year, A guaranteed number to knock a man dead… Something in Red – _Lorrie Morgan_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 27, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3931 "2023-02-27T00:33:34Z")
Big old Ruby Red Dress Wanders 'round the town Talking to herself now Sometimes sitting down Don’t you get too close now Ruby runs away Poor old Ruby Red Dress Born on a sorry day I can hear her say ---
**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:** [February 27, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3932 "2023-02-27T02:28:20Z")
Mama washed and combed and curled my hair And she painted my eyes and lips Then I stepped into a satin dancin’ dress That had a split on the side clean up to my hip It was red velvet trim and it fit me good Standin’ back from the lookin’ glass There stood a woman where a half-grown kid had stood She said, “Here’s your one chance, Fancy, don’t let me down. Here’s your one chance, Fancy, don’t let me down.” ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3933 "2023-02-27T06:31:46Z")
And mama said to me, child, what’s happened to your appetite? I’ve been cookin’ all morning, and you haven’t touched a single bite That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today Said he’d be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin’ off the Tallahatchie Bridge ---
**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 27, 2023, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3934 "2023-02-27T11:18:53Z")
Did you hear what mama said? (Dick Shawn in the movie _It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World_, sampled in Jeff Beck’s “What Mama Said.”) ---
**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 27, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3935 "2023-02-27T12:50:02Z")
Mama said there’ll be days like this, There’ll be days like this, my Mama said. Mama Said – _The Shirelles_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 27, 2023, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3936 "2023-02-27T12:53:53Z")
Questi giorni quando vieni il belle sole la la la la la-la-la-la la la la la On days like these when skies are blue and fields are green I look around and think about what might have been and then I hear sweet music float around my head as I recall the many things we left unsaid its on days like these that I remember singing songs and drinking wine while your eyes played games with mine ---
**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 27, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3937 "2023-02-27T12:56:45Z")
Red, red wine goes to my head Makes me forget that I still need her so Red, red wine, it’s up to you All I can do I’ve done Memories won’t go, memories won’t go I’d have sworn that with time Thoughts of you leave my head I was wrong, now I find Just one thing makes me forget ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3938 "2023-02-27T15:00:41Z")
I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back As she disappeared, but soon she returned In her hand was a bottle of wine In the other, a glass She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass And raised it to her lips And just before she drank it, she said… ---
**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 27, 2023, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3939 "2023-02-27T15:13:27Z")
Lord Almighty I feel my temperature rising Higher higher It’s burning through to my soul Girl, girl, girl, girl You’re gonna set me on fire My brain is flaming I don’t know which way to go Your kisses lift me higher Like a sweet song of a choir You light my morning sky With burning love ---
**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 27, 2023, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3940 "2023-02-27T15:37:30Z")
At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet And a freight train running through the middle of my head Only you can cool my desire Oh, oh, oh, I’m on fire ---
**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 27, 2023, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3941 "2023-02-27T15:39:12Z")
I was born in a bass drum Brought up by a guitar My mama kept a house of hags And my daddy dressed in drag A hot nite in Dallas Feel the southern wind A hot nite in Dallas And the sheets stickin’ to my skin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=196) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=198)