# 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:** 361
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7203 "2024-05-05T03:40:03Z")
You can check out any time you like but you can never leave ---
**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 5, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7204 "2024-05-05T14:48:49Z")
Weary traveler, restless soul You were never meant to walk this road alone It’ll all be worth it so just hold on Weary traveler, you won’t be weary long No, you won’t be weary long You won’t be weary long (weary long) Someday soon we’re gonna make it home Someday soon we’re gonna make it home ---
**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 5, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7205 "2024-05-05T15:45:12Z")
Spendin’ too much time away I can’t stand another day Maybe you think I’ve seen the world But I’d rather see my girl I’m goin’ home, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home, I’m goin’ home I’m goin’ home, bome, bome, bome bome bome Home, bome, bome, bome, back home Yes, I am ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7206 "2024-05-05T16:00:48Z")
This Greyhound is delta bound mama, Baby boy finally found, Said this Greyhound is delta bound mama, Baby boy done finally found his way home Said take me home ---
**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 5, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7207 "2024-05-05T17:02:11Z")
Now you come to me With a simple goodbye You tell me you’re leaving But you won’t tell me why Now we’re here at the station And you’re getting on And all I can think of is Thank God and Greyhound you’re gone! ---
**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 6, 2024, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7208 "2024-05-06T16:35:20Z")
And I need you like a heartbeat But you know you got a mean streak That makes me run for cover when you’re around And here’s to you and your temper Yes, I remember what you said last night And I know that you see what you’re doing to me Tell me why ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7209 "2024-05-06T17:02:57Z")
Weren’t you the one Who tried to break me with desire? Did you think I’d crumble? Did you think I’d lay down and die? Oh not I, I will survive ---
**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 6, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7210 "2024-05-06T18:24:32Z")
I can’t live, if living is without you I can’t live, I can’t give anymore I can’t live, if living is without you I can’t give, I can’t give anymore ---
**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 6, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7211 "2024-05-06T22:02:46Z")
I didn’t know it would be so strong Waiting and wondering about you I didn’t know it would last so long Nights are forever without you Nights are forever without you ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7212 "2024-05-07T04:23:02Z")
Nights in white satin Never reaching the end Letters I’ve written Never meaning to send Beauty I’d always missed With these eyes before Just what the truth is I can’t say anymore ---
**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 7, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7213 "2024-05-07T04:58:24Z")
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane Ain’t got time to take a fast train Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home My baby just wrote me a letter I don’t care how much money I gotta spend Got to get back to my baby again Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home My baby just wrote me a letter ---
**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:** [May 7, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7214 "2024-05-07T11:10:56Z")
Oh, she’s got a ticket to ride She’s got a ticket to ride She’s got a ticket to ride, but she don’t care. Ticket to Ride – _The Beatles_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 7, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7215 "2024-05-07T13:11:19Z")
I’ve got two tickets to paradise Won’t you pack your bags, we’ll leave tonight I’ve got two tickets to paradise I’ve got two tickets to paradise ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7216 "2024-05-07T14:53:46Z")
Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Oh won’t you please take me home ---
**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 7, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7217 "2024-05-07T16:42:07Z")
When I was a child my family would travel Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered So many times that my memories are worn 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:** ![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 7, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7218 "2024-05-07T17:35:28Z")
There is a train that comes from Namibia and Malawi there is a train that comes from Zambia and Zimbabwe, There is a train that comes from Angola and Mozambique, From Lesotho, from Botswana, from Zwaziland, From all the hinterland of Southern and Central Africa. This train carries young and old, African men Who are conscripted to come and work on contract In the golden mineral mines of Johannesburg And its surrounding metropolis, sixteen hours or more a day For almost no pay. Deep, deep, deep down in the belly of the earth When they are digging and drilling that shiny mighty evasive stone, Or when they dish that mish mesh mush food ---
**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 7, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7219 "2024-05-07T18:23:13Z")
Well, I was borned a coal miner’s daughter In a cabin, on a hill in Butcher Holler We were poor but we had love That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of He shoveled coal to make a poor man’s dollar My daddy worked all night in the Van Lear coal mines All day long in the field a hoin’ corn Mommy rocked the babies at night And read the Bible by the coal oil light And ever’ thing would start all over come break of morn’ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7220 "2024-05-07T23:34:03Z")
I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said, “Well, a-bless my soul” You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company 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:** [May 7, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7221 "2024-05-07T23:58:33Z")
I been ballin’ a shiny black steel jack-hammer Been chippin’ up rocks for the great highway I live five years if I take my time Ballin’ that jack and drinkin’ my wine ---
**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 8, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7222 "2024-05-08T00:01:18Z")
Taking my time Choosin’ my line Tryin’ to decide what to do Looks like my stop Don’t wanna get off Got myself hung up on you Seems to me You don’t want to talk about it Seems to me You just turn your pretty head and walk away [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=360) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=362)