# 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:** 8
**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 18, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/141 "2017-08-18T04:02:18Z")
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44 Like a rocket sled on rails. We tore up all of our swindle sheets, And left ‘em settin’ on the scales. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/142 "2017-08-18T13:42:23Z")
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They’ve all come to look for America ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/143 "2017-08-18T16:43:48Z")
Every time that flag’s unfurled They’re coming to America ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/144 "2017-08-18T16:49:01Z")
I’m so bored with the USA. ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/145 "2017-08-18T16:53:17Z")
You take the good, you take the bad, You take them both and there you have The facts of life, the facts of life. (running for my life) ---
**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 18, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/146 "2017-08-18T16:57:51Z")
Time, keeps flowing like a river. On and on, to the sea, to the seaaaaaa… Till it’s gone forever. ---
**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 18, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/147 "2017-08-18T17:28:15Z")
Like a river that don’t know where it’s flowing I took a wrong turn and I just kept going ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/148 "2017-08-18T17:56:29Z")
Down by the river I shot my baby Down by the river, Dead, oh, shot her dead ---
**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 18, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/149 "2017-08-18T18:47:15Z")
Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/150 "2017-08-18T19:57:25Z")
Early one morning while making the rounds I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that loving 44 beneath my head ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/151 "2017-08-18T21:38:59Z")
What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? She lost her sparkle, you know she isn’t the same Livin’ on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine All a friend can say is “Ain’t it a shame” ---
**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 18, 2017, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/152 "2017-08-18T22:20:40Z")
You made me cry when you said goodbye Ain’t that a shame My tears fell like rain ---
**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 19, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/153 "2017-08-19T00:48:25Z")
Then you said “so long”. Left me standing all alone Alone and crying, crying, crying crying It’s hard to understand but the touch of your hand Can start me crying ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/154 "2017-08-19T02:30:07Z")
I’ll never let you see […] All the sorrow and pain I’ll do my crying in the rain ---
**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 19, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/155 "2017-08-19T02:35:53Z")
Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain Telling me just what a fool I’ve been I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain And let me be alone again. ---
**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 19, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/156 "2017-08-19T02:43:54Z")
I’m never going to stop the rain by complaining Because I’m free Nothing’s worrying me ---
**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 19, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/157 "2017-08-19T03:05:29Z")
Long as I remember the rain been coming down. Clouds of mystery pouring confusion on the ground. Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/158 "2017-08-19T05:29:15Z")
If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break If it keeps on rainin’ levee’s goin’ to break When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/159 "2017-08-19T05:36:57Z")
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry And them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye Singin’ this’ll be the day that I die ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564/160 "2017-08-19T07:50:20Z")
And when I die, and when I’m gone There’ll be, one child born In this world To carry on, to carry on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain/793564.md?page=9)