# 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:** 324
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6463 "2023-12-10T22:07:58Z")
Just to dance with you It’s everything I need Before this dance is through I think I’ll love you too I’m so happy when you dance with me ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6464 "2023-12-10T22:18:17Z")
Come dancing Come on, sister, have yourself a ball Don’t be afraid to come dancing It’s only natural Come dancing Just like the palais on a Saturday And all her friends would come dancing While the big bands used to play ---
**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:** [December 10, 2023, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6465 "2023-12-10T22:26:58Z")
Step into Christmas, let’s join together We can watch the snow fall forever and ever Eat, drink and be merry, come along with me Step into Christmas, the admission’s free, oh ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6466 "2023-12-11T00:39:44Z")
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you go Take a look at the five and ten, it’s glistening once again With candy canes and silver lanes that glow ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6467 "2023-12-11T12:32:08Z")
It was a lucky April shower It was the most convenient door I found a million-dollar baby In a five and ten cent store The rain continued for an hour I hung around for three or four Around a million-dollar baby In a five and ten cent store ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6468 "2023-12-11T13:08:18Z")
It was an April morning when they told us we should go As I turn to you, you smiled at me How could we say no? Oh, the fun to have To live the dreams we always had Oh, the songs to sing When we at last return again ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6469 "2023-12-11T15:32:33Z")
Early morning, April four Shots ring out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life But they could not take your pride ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6470 "2023-12-11T15:40:14Z")
Anybody here seen my old friend Martin? Can you tell me where he’s gone? He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young I just looked around and he’s gone ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6471 "2023-12-11T16:08:50Z")
And they say there’s a heaven for those who will wait Some say it’s better, but I say it ain’t I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints The sinners are much more fun You know that only the good die young, oh, baby I tell ya only the good die young Only the good die young ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6472 "2023-12-11T16:17:36Z")
G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan Sly in Vietnam, bullet in the head Bobby OD’d on Drano on the night that he was wed They were two more friends of mine Two more friends that died ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6473 "2023-12-11T16:22:14Z")
Georgie’s life ended there But I ask who really cares George once said to me and I quote He said, “Never wait or hesitate Get in kid, before it’s too late You may never get another chance 'Cause youth’s a mask but it don’t last Live it long and live it fast” Georgie was a friend of mine Oh yeah ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6474 "2023-12-11T21:16:43Z")
Christmas was a jolly old time With Billy Smart’s and Auld Lang Syne ‘Peace on Earth’ was real, it seemed And LOVE a word as yet not obscene, no, no Christmas tree smell and those silvery bells Christmas was a friend of mine ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2023, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6475 "2023-12-11T21:28:23Z")
We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations A faintly glimmering radio station While Frank Sinatra sings Stormy Weather The flies and spiders get along together Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record ---
**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:** [December 11, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6476 "2023-12-11T21:47:52Z")
She said, “my, my, my, don’t tell lies, Keep fidelity in your head My my my, don’t tell lies, When you’re done you should go to bed Don’t say hi, like a spider to a fly Jump right ahead and you’re dead” ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6477 "2023-12-12T00:02:36Z")
I wanna see the mountains in your eyes … I’ve had all of this life I can handle… Meet me underneath that big Montana sky… ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6478 "2023-12-12T00:16:29Z")
In and around the lake Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there One mile over, we’ll be there and we’ll see you Ten true summers, we’ll be there and laughing, too Twenty-four before my love, you’ll see I’ll be there with you ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6479 "2023-12-12T03:16:19Z")
A river, a mountain to be crossed The sunshine, in mountains sometimes lost Around the southside So cold that we cried Were we ever colder on that day A million miles away It seemed from all of eternity ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6480 "2023-12-12T03:53:30Z")
Cold mountain water The jade merchant’s daughter Mountains of the Moon, bow and bend to me Hi ho the carrion crow Folderol de riddle Hi Ho the carrion crow Bow and bend to me ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6481 "2023-12-12T12:48:32Z")
And there’s fire on the mountain Lightning in the air Gold in them hills and it’s waiting for me there ---
**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:** [December 12, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6482 "2023-12-12T12:56:48Z")
Long distance runner, what you standin’ there for? Get up, get out, get out of the door You’re playin’ cold music on the barroom floor Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core There’s a dragon with matches that’s loose on the town Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down Fire! Fire on the mountain Fire! Fire on the mountain Fire! Fire on the mountain Fire! Fire on the mountain [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=323) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=325)