# I've seen fire and I've seen rain 2 (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254>\
**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\
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**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:** [April 30, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7183 "2024-04-30T23:07:42Z")

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I know how you want it child  
Hot, quick and tight  
The girls can’t stand it  
When you’re doin’ it right  
Let me up on the stand  
And let me kick out the jams  
Yes, kick out the jams  
I have to kick 'em out

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**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:** [May 1, 2024, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7184 "2024-05-01T01:50:28Z")

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Jam up and jelly tight  
My, my, my, my baby  
Now you’re outta sight  
Jam up and jelly tight  
You look a little naughty  
But you’re so polite  
Jam up and jelly tight  
You won’t say you will but  
There’s a chance that you might

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**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:** [May 1, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7185 "2024-05-01T02:20:20Z")

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Say you will, say you won’t  
Make up your mind tonight  
Say you do, say you don’t  
Want to be mine  
Say you will, say you won’t  
Make up your mind this time  
Say you will, say you won’t  
Be mine tonight

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**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:** [May 1, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7186 "2024-05-01T15:30:28Z")

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Tonight, tonight  
The world is full of light  
With suns and moons all over the place  
Tonight, tonight  
The world is wild and bright  
Going mad  
Shooting sparks into space

_Leonard Bernstein. West Side Story_

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7187 "2024-05-01T15:41:09Z")

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Because tonight, tonight, tonight, oh  
I’m gonna make it right, tonight, tonight, tonight, oh

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**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:** [May 1, 2024, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7188 "2024-05-01T15:43:03Z")

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We’re gonna go all the way tonight, we’re gonna go all the way and tonight’s the night  
We’re gonna go all the way tonight we’re gonna go all the way and tonight’s the night  
We’re gonna go all the way tonight we’re gonna go all the way and tonight’s the night  
We’re gonna go all the way tonight we’re gonna go all the way and tonight’s the night

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**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:** [May 1, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7189 "2024-05-01T16:15:06Z")

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I was twenty-one naive  
Not cynical, I try to please  
Her wit, her speech, her repartee  
Impressed me almost instantly  
She went all the way  
All the way down  
She went all the way, all the way

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**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:** [May 2, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7190 "2024-05-02T01:14:04Z")

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We weren’t in love, oh no far from it  
We weren’t searchin’ for some pie in the sky, or summit  
We were just young and restless and bored  
Livin’ by the sword

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**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:** [May 2, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7191 "2024-05-02T04:00:00Z")

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I’m not in love, so don’t forget it  
It’s just a silly phase I’m going through  
And just because I call you up  
Don’t get me wrong, don’t think you’ve got it made

I’m not in love, no, no  
It’s because

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**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:** [May 2, 2024, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7192 "2024-05-02T11:35:26Z")

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You made me love you  
I didn’t want to do it  
I didn’t want to do it  
You made me want you  
And all the time you knew it  
I guess you always knew it

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7193 "2024-05-02T15:54:32Z")

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You go back, jack  
Do it again  
Wheel turning 'round and 'round  
You go back, jack  
Do it again

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**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:** [May 2, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7194 "2024-05-02T20:17:17Z")

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Please don’t dominate the rap, Jack  
If you’ve got nothing new to say  
If you please, don’t back up the track  
This train’s got to run today

I spent a little time on the mountain  
I spent a little time on the hill  
Heard some say: Better run away  
Others say you better stand still

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7195 "2024-05-02T23:19:21Z")

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Up on the hill people never stare  
They just don’t care  
Chinese music under banyan trees  
Here at the dude ranch above the sea

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**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:** [May 3, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7196 "2024-05-03T16:31:11Z")

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Home, home on the range  
Where the deer and the antelope play  
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word  
And the skies are not cloudy all day

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**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:** [May 3, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7197 "2024-05-03T16:36:05Z")

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Suddenly, the sun broke through (see the sun)  
I turned around, she was gone (Where did she go?)  
And all I had left was one little flower in my hand

But I knew (I knew, I knew, I knew, I knew)  
She had made me happy (happy, happy, she had made me very happy)  
Flowers in her hair  
Flowers everywhere

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**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:** [May 3, 2024, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7198 "2024-05-03T22:45:13Z")

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If you’re going to San Francisco  
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair

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**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:** [May 4, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7199 "2024-05-04T14:56:06Z")

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California, here I come  
Right back where I started from  
Where bowers of flowers bloom in the spring  
Each morning at dawning, birdies sing at everything  
A sun-kissed miss said, “Don’t be late”  
That’s why I can hardly wait  
Open up that golden gate  
California, here I come

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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7200 "2024-05-04T16:28:09Z")

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The first thing you know old Jed’s a millionaire  
The kinfolk said ‘Jed, move away from here’  
Said ‘California is the place y’oughta be’  
So they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly

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**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:** [May 4, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7201 "2024-05-04T21:05:15Z")

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Spent my days with a woman unkind  
Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine  
Made up my mind to make a new start  
Going to California with an aching in my heart

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**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:** [May 5, 2024, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7202 "2024-05-05T01:38:19Z")

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Please, come to LA to live forever  
And California’s life alone is just too hard to build  
I live in a house that looks out over the ocean  
And there’s some stars that fell from the sky  
And livin’ up on the hill  
Please, come to LA  
And she said No

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