# 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:** 77
**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:** [August 19, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1522 "2021-08-19T16:29:25Z")
My day one rule Is keeping my cool Even if I’m broken up If you blow my high You won’t see me cry Gotta whistle while you work it ---
**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:** [August 21, 2021, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1523 "2021-08-21T12:47:57Z")
Boy, boy, crazy boy Get cool, boy! Got a rocket, in your pocket Keep coolly cool, boy! ---
**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:** [August 21, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1524 "2021-08-21T16:44:30Z")
When they see me walkin’ down the street When the fellas want to speak On their faces they wear a silly smirk Cause they know I’m the king of a Cool Jerk! c ---
**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:** [August 21, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1525 "2021-08-21T17:45:18Z")
Here we come, walkin’ down the street We get the funniest looks from everyone we meet Hey, hey, we’re the Monkees and people say we monkey around But we’re too busy singing to put anybody down _The Monkees Theme_ – The Monkees _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1526 "2021-08-21T18:31:13Z")
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? **Walking in Memphis** ---
**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:** [August 21, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1527 "2021-08-21T19:49:51Z")
I’m going to Graceland Graceland In Memphis Tennessee I’m going to Graceland Poor boys and pilgrims with families And we are going to Graceland ---
**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:** [August 22, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1528 "2021-08-22T17:27:49Z")
I’ve been livin’ on the wrong side of Memphis Really breakin’ away this time A full tank of gas and a ‘69 Tempest Takin’ me to that Nashville sign No turnin’ back, I’ve come too far Headed down 40 with my old guitar This ain’t Graceland, that’s a fact And I ain’t drivin’ a pink Cadillac ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1529 "2021-08-22T18:24:29Z")
Well, I seen a Cadillac window uptown And there was nobody aroun’, I got into the driver’s seat And I drove 42nd Street In my Cadillac. Good car to drive after a war. ---
**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:** [August 22, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1530 "2021-08-22T18:37:33Z")
Well, I was thumbin’ from Montgomery, I had my guitar on my back, When a stranger stopped beside me in an antique Cadillac. He was dressed like 1950 – Half-drunk and hollow-eyed. He said, “It’s a long walk to Nashville, would you like a ride?” _The Ride_ – David Allan Coe ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1531 "2021-08-23T11:54:34Z")
“What do you want for that piece of junk?” I asked the old man He just smiled and took it down And he put it in my hand He said, “You tell me what it’s worth You’re the one who wants it Tune it up, play a song And let’s just see what haunts it” So I hit a couple of chords In my old country way of strumming And then my fingers turned to lightning Man, I never heard it coming It was like I always knew it I just don’t know where I learned it It wasn’t nothin’ but the truth So I just reared back and burned it _The Guitar_- Guy Clark ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1532 "2021-08-23T12:12:17Z")
The Devil bowed his head because he knew that he’d been beat And he laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny’s feet ---
**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:** [August 23, 2021, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1533 "2021-08-23T16:24:12Z")
His mother told him, “Someday you will be a man And you will be the leader of a big ol’ band Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying Johnny B. Goode tonight” ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1534 "2021-08-24T11:50:03Z")
Well I have known you Since you were a small boy And your mama used to say “My boy is gonna grow up and be Some kind of leader some day.” Then you’d turn on the radio And sing with the singer in the band Your mama would say to you “This isn’t exactly what we had planned.” ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1535 "2021-08-24T11:59:06Z")
Your mama don’t dance and your Daddy don’t rock n roll ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1536 "2021-08-24T12:55:53Z")
We could be relaxing in my sleeping bag, But all you want to do for me mama Is rag Mama rag ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1537 "2021-08-24T16:28:12Z")
Well, I would not give you false hopes On this great and mournful day, But the mother and child reunion Is only a motion away. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1538 "2021-08-24T16:38:01Z")
Mother, you had me but I never had you I wanted you, You didn’t want me So I, I just got to tell you Goodbye goodbye _Mother_, by John Lennon ---
**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:** [August 24, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1539 "2021-08-24T16:44:00Z")
Staying with John Lennon — I once had a girl Or should I say, she once had me? She showed me her room “Isn’t it good, Norwegian wood?” _Norwegian Wood (This Bird has Flown)_ – The Beatles _ **-“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:** [August 24, 2021, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1540 "2021-08-24T21:07:42Z")
Seven figures leap the hungry mouths The beast, he comes to you He’s a hunter for a lonely heart in the season of the sun Don’t you know it’s true? Norway, Norway ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/1541 "2021-08-25T02:01:16Z")
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