# I've seen fire and I've seen rain. **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 13, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564 "2017-08-13T18:06:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/41 "2017-08-14T22:01:18Z")
Switchman’s sleeping, train hundred and two Is on the wrong track and headed for you ---
**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:** [August 14, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/42 "2017-08-14T22:16:09Z")
[Suggested a move to Thread Games, perhaps with a strict one line rule so as to dissuade the more verbose among us. |whistles innocently|] Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break ---
**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:** [August 14, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/43 "2017-08-14T22:16:53Z")
He’s leaving (Leaving) On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah (Leaving on the midnight train) Said he’s going back (Going back to find) To a simpler place and time, oh yes he is ---
**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:** [August 14, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/44 "2017-08-14T22:22:02Z")
Buy me a ticket on an aeroplane – ain’t got time to take a fast train. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/45 "2017-08-14T22:30:30Z")
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let 'em tell you that they’re all the same. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/46 "2017-08-14T22:56:02Z")
Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like On a-Jupiter and Mars ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/47 "2017-08-14T23:17:37Z")
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/48 "2017-08-14T23:22:27Z")
Ground control to Major Tom. ---
**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 14, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/49 "2017-08-14T23:22:42Z")
Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah Some call me the gangster of love Some people call me Maurice Cause I speak of the pompitous of love ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/50 "2017-08-14T23:29:34Z")
Most people I know think that I’m crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/51 "2017-08-14T23:29:47Z")
I wanna be a cowboy; And you can be my cowgirl Yippee yippee yi, yippee yi yo yo. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/52 "2017-08-14T23:32:32Z")
I’m a spaceship superstar! Got a solar-powered, laser-beam guitar! ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/53 "2017-08-14T23:40:19Z")
Stranger from another planet, welcome to our hole Just strap on your guitar and we’ll play some Rock 'N Roll ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/54 "2017-08-14T23:45:19Z")
Why were you so surprised that you never saw the stranger? Did you ever let your lover see the stranger in yourself? ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/55 "2017-08-14T23:52:03Z")
Some enchanted evening, you may see a \*stranger (on a train?) \*:smack: ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/56 "2017-08-15T00:16:04Z")
People are strange, when you’re a stranger… ---
**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:** [August 15, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/57 "2017-08-15T00:40:58Z")
Strangers in the night, exchanging glances. . . ---
**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 15, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/58 "2017-08-15T00:48:57Z")
Remember how I found you there Alone in your electric chair I told you dirty jokes until you smiled ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/59 "2017-08-15T01:59:03Z")
Dirty deeds and they’re done dirt cheap. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/60 "2017-08-15T02:49:20Z")
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