# 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:** 404
**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:** [September 6, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8063 "2024-09-06T22:01:36Z")
I wanna be Bobby’s girl I wanna be Bobby’s girl That’s the most important thing to me And if I was Bobby’s girl If I was Bobby’s girl What a faithful, thankful girl I’d be Each night I sit at home Hoping that he will phone But I know Bobby has someone else (You’re not a kid anymore) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8064 "2024-09-06T22:10:56Z")
Jessie is a friend Yeah, I know, he’s been a good friend of mine But lately something’s changed that ain’t hard to define Jessie’s got himself a girl and I want to make her mine And she’s watching him with those eyes And she’s loving him with that body, I just know it Yeah, and he’s holding her in his arms late, late at night You know, I wish that I had Jessie’s girl I wish that I had Jessie’s girl Where can I find a woman like that? ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8065 "2024-09-07T20:01:18Z")
You’re gonna find her gone (you’re gonna find her gone) 'Cause I will treat her right, and then You’ll be the lonely one (you’re not the only one) You’re gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you’re gonna lose that girl) You’re gonna lose that girl (yes, yes, you’re gonna lose that girl) You’re gonna lose (yes, yes, you’re gonna lose that girl) I’ll make a point of taking her away from you (watch what you do, yeah) The way you treat her, what else can I do ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8066 "2024-09-07T21:19:29Z")
Jesse, I’m lonely, come home. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8067 "2024-09-07T22:15:40Z")
On some solitary rock A desperate lover left his mark: “Baby, I’ve changed Please come back” ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8068 "2024-09-07T22:17:09Z")
Baby, come back, any kind of fool could see There was something in everything about you Baby, come back, you can blame it all on me I was wrong and I just can’t live without you ---
**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:** [September 7, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8069 "2024-09-07T22:33:01Z")
I can’t live if living is without you I can’t live, I can’t give any more Can’t live if living is without you I can’t give, I can’t give any more ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8070 "2024-09-07T23:06:41Z")
Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It’s getting hard to be someone But it all works out It doesn’t matter much to 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:** [September 8, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8071 "2024-09-08T01:07:40Z")
When you were young and your heart Was an open book You used to say live and let live (You know you did) (You know you did) (You know you did) But if this ever changin’ world In which we’re livin’ Makes you give in and cry Say live and let die Live and let die ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8072 "2024-09-08T05:45:06Z")
Now I can remember like it was only yesterday Love was young and foolish like a little child at play But oh how lovers change, I never dreamed how easily 'cause now I’m just a shadow of the boy I used to be And when I write the book about my love It will be about a man who’s torn in half About his hopes and ambitions wasted through the years The pain will be written on every page in tears When I write the book about my love ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8073 "2024-09-08T17:15:38Z")
Dad has flown across the ocean Leaving just a memory The snapshots in the family album Daddy, what’d you leave behind for me? ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8074 "2024-09-08T17:17:43Z")
Daddy, don’t you walk so fast. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8075 "2024-09-08T17:24:43Z")
Well, my daddy left home when I was three And he didn’t leave much to ma and me Just this old guitar and a empty bottle of booze ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8076 "2024-09-08T17:34:55Z")
My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin’ man Down in New Orleans ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8077 "2024-09-08T18:10:55Z")
I’m gonna tell you a story Strange as it might seem Of zombie voodoo _gris-gris_ And the Witch Queen of New Orleans The Witch Queen of New Orleans – _Redbone_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8078 "2024-09-08T20:13:20Z")
I said, Basin Street, Basin Street Where the elite always meet Down in New Orleans, the land of dreams You’ll never know how nice it seems Or just how much it really means Just to be, yes, siree, in New Orleans The land of dreams where I can lose My Basin Street blues ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8079 "2024-09-08T21:31:38Z")
Well, way down yonder in New Orleans in the land of the dreamy scenes There’s a Garden of Eden, ah, you know what I mean Yeah, Creole babies with flashin’ eyes softly whisper with tender sighs And then you stop Oh won’t you give your lady fair a little smile And then you stop You bet your life you’ll linger there a little while Yeah, there is heaven right here on earth with those beautiful queens Yeah, way down yonder in New Orleans ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8080 "2024-09-08T22:23:39Z")
Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar just a-ringin’ a bell ---
**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:** [September 8, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8081 "2024-09-08T22:25:09Z")
He steps right up to the microphone And says at last Just as the time bell rings “Goodnight, now it’s time to go home” Then he makes it fast with one more thing “We are the Sultans We are the Sultans of Swing” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8082 "2024-09-09T00:56:10Z")
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