# 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:** 348
**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:** [March 8, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6943 "2024-03-08T23:28:52Z")
Too many puppies are being shot in the dark Too many puppies are trained not to bark At the sight of blood that must be spilled so that we may maintain our oil fields Too many puppies Too many puppies ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6944 "2024-03-09T00:05:53Z")
I’d take my puppy everywhere La-la, la-la, I wouldn’t care But we would stay away from crowds With signs that said “No dogs allowed” Oh, weee I know he’d never bite me Whoa, whoa-whoa, lo-do-do-do, po-doo Weee I know he’d never bite me Whoa, whoa-whoa ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6945 "2024-03-09T06:41:35Z")
Maria carry a rifle Maria carry a dog on her back That dog is hit again That slow dog is hit again With his see-thru skin The kind of skin you can see through He’s shot again He’s shot again ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6946 "2024-03-09T13:18:21Z")
They don’t come when you call; They don’t chase squirrels at all. Dead puppies aren’t much fun. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6947 "2024-03-09T13:55:29Z")
Dead babies Can’t take care of themselves Dead babies Can’t take things off the shelf Well we didn’t want you anyway Lalala-la, lalala-la, la la la ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6948 "2024-03-09T13:56:35Z")
[you silly git! I was 2 seconds away from posting that exact same lyric! Sick minds think alike…] My dead wife sits in a chair Combing her hair I know she’s there She wanders off to the bed Shaking her head "Robyn, " she said “You know I don’t take sugar!” My wife and my dead wife Am I the only one that sees her? My wife and my dead wife Doesn’t anybody see her at all? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6949 "2024-03-09T19:12:10Z")
Oh, they say she died one winter When there came a killing frost And the pony she named Wildfire Busted down its stall In a blizzard, he was lost She ran calling Wildfire She ran calling Wildfire She ran calling Wildfire ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6950 "2024-03-09T22:38:45Z")
I really can’t stay Baby, it’s cold outside I’ve got to go away Baby, it’s cold outside This evening has been Hoping that you’d drop in So, very nice I’ll hold your hands, they’re just like ice ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6951 "2024-03-09T23:05:13Z")
We really cannot stay The colours - The colours of the dawn Flying through - Flying through the ferns The staggering clouds These lives – These lives we love ---
**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:** [March 9, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6952 "2024-03-09T23:58:58Z")
Oh, won’t you stay, just a little bit longer Please let me hear You say that you will, say you will ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6953 "2024-03-10T02:08:27Z")
You said you caught me 'cause you want me And one day you’d let me go You try to give away a keeper But keep me 'cause you know You’re just so scared to lose And you say, stay ---
**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:** [March 10, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6954 "2024-03-10T13:58:20Z")
In the silence of your room In the darkness of your dreams You must only think of me There can be no in between When your pride is on the floor I’ll make you beg for more Stay with me Stay with me ---
**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:** [March 10, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6955 "2024-03-10T14:02:51Z")
So tired so soon What happened to you? What happened to you? You got lost Somewhere between There and here Somewhere between So far so near You got lost Somewhere between What happened to you? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6956 "2024-03-10T18:19:13Z")
Oh, may I go a’wandering Until the day I die Oh, may I always laugh and sing Beneath god’s clear blue sky ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6957 "2024-03-11T00:44:57Z")
Oh yeah, I’m the type of guy that likes to roam around I’m never in one place, I roam from town to town And when I find myself a-fallin’ for some girl Yeah, I hop right into that car of mine and drive around the world Yeah I’m the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, around ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6958 "2024-03-11T01:06:42Z")
Saw the ghost of Elvis On Union Avenue Followed him up to the gates of Graceland Then I watched him walk right through Now security they did not see him They just hovered 'round his tomb But there’s a pretty little thing Waiting for the King Down in the Jungle Room When I was walking in Memphis I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale Walking in Memphis But do I really feel the way I feel? ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6959 "2024-03-11T01:22:54Z")
I’ve seen the bright lights of Memphis And the Commodore Hotel And underneath a street lamp, I met a southern belle Oh, she took me to the river, where she cast her spell And in that southern moonlight, she sang this song so well If you’ll be my Dixie chicken I’ll be your Tennessee lamb And we can walk together down in Dixieland Down in Dixieland ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6960 "2024-03-11T02:04:43Z")
We’re in the deep night sky, The stars lie in its embrace. The courtyard still in its sleep. Peace comes over your face. “Come to me”, it sings “Hear the pulse of the land. The ocean’s rhythms pull To hold your heart in its hand.” ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6961 "2024-03-11T16:04:59Z")
Silent night, holy night All is calm, all is bright ---
**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:** [March 11, 2024, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/6962 "2024-03-11T16:07:11Z")
Bright light, big city, gone to my baby’s head Whoa, bright light, a big city, gone to my baby’s head I tried to tell the woman, but she don’t believe a word I said [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=347) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=349)