# I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396 "2025-07-02T12:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2061 "2026-07-03T21:53:19Z")
Give me a head with hair Long, beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen waxen Give me down to there hair Shoulder length or longer Here, baby, there, mama Everywhere, daddy, daddy Hair (Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair) Flow it (Hair) Show it (Hair) Long as God can grow it, my (Hair my) Hair ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2062 "2026-07-03T22:16:06Z")
Then I’ll re-read the books, if I have time to spare I’ll paint the walls some more; I’m sure there’s room somewhere And then I’ll brush and brush and brush and brush my hair Stuck in the same place I’ve always been And I’ll keep wondering and wondering and wondering and wondering When will my life begin? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2063 "2026-07-03T22:39:30Z")
There is no order in my room A place where accidents can happen I like the table and my chair Sometimes I listen to their pattern Furniture music I make furniture music I like furniture music… OK? ---
**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:** [July 3, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2064 "2026-07-03T23:45:07Z")
I can see the outside world Everything’s inviting in the outside world Leaving all my problems in the outside world Nothing’s going to touch me in the outside world When I’m locked in my room I just want to scream And I know what they mean (One more day of eating and sleeping) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2065 "2026-07-04T00:41:28Z")
When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, You can always go downtown… If you got worries, all the noise and the hurry, I know downtown. Seems to help, I know… downtown! ---
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2066 "2026-07-04T02:16:25Z")
Mommy and Dad are never nervous or mad When you teenagers go downtown Daddy and Mom just stay at home and be calm And watch the late late show, uptown 'Cause when you kids are gone we get to spend some time alone here That’s our only chance to use the bathtub or the phone here When you’re away Besides, we’re stuck where we are Because you kids took our money, you kids took our car and went Downtown, where can you possibly Downtown, it’s twenty after three Downtown, what do you mean by, “Let’s frug”? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2067 "2026-07-04T02:19:34Z")
Uptown got it’s hustlers The Bowery got it’s bums 42nd street got big Jim Walker He’s a pool shootin’ son of a gun Yeah, he’s big and dumb as a man can come But he’s stronger than a country hoss And when the bad folks all get together at night You know they all call big Jim “Boss” just because ---
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2068 "2026-07-04T12:50:48Z")
Now Leroy more than trouble You see he stand 'bout six foot four All the downtown ladies call him “Treetop Lover” All the men just call him “Sir” And it’s bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damned town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog ---
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2069 "2026-07-04T13:47:07Z")
[Three times in just 6 days for that name, 2x for the ol’ Jim Croce standard, plus a Queen song…] * * * How do you like that? Has anybody seen a dog dyed dark green. About two inches tall, with a strawberry blonde fall; Sunglasses and a bonnet And designer jeans with appliques on it? The dog that brought me so much joy Left me wallowing in pain. Quiche Lorraine ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2070 "2026-07-04T17:31:02Z")
Yonder come miss Rosie, how in the world did you know? By the way she wear her apron, and the clothes she wore Umbrella on her shoulder, piece of paper in her hand She come to see the gov’nor, she want to free her man ---
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2071 "2026-07-04T17:38:15Z")
With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat Living, loving, she’s just a woman Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac Living, loving, she’s just a woman ---
**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:** [July 4, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2072 "2026-07-04T21:46:45Z")
I love you for your pink Cadillac, crushed velvet seats Riding in the back, oozing down the street Waving to the girls, feeling out of sight Spending all my money on a Saturday night Honey, I just wonder what you do there in the back Of your pink Cadillac, pink Cadillac ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2073 "2026-07-04T23:45:12Z")
Jesus told me and I believe its true ‘Red man’s in sunset too’ Took his land and we won’t give it back And we sent Geronimo a Cadillac Say ah, hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac Hey, boys take me back I wanna ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2074 "2026-07-05T01:41:51Z")
Oh it’s all in the past they will say But it’s still going on here today The governments now want the Navaho land That of the Inuit and the Cheyenne It’s here and it’s now you can help us dear man Now that the buffalo’s gone ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2075 "2026-07-05T06:40:50Z")
Straight from the shoulder I think like a soldier I know what’s right and what’s wrong He knows what’s right and what’s wrong. I’m the original discriminating buffalo man And I’ll do what’s wrong as long as I can He’ll do what’s wrong as long as he can ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2076 "2026-07-05T07:18:24Z")
Now the village cried with anger “Mount your horses! Draw your sword!” And they killed the mountain people So they earned their just reward Now they stood beside the treasure On the mountain dark and red Turned the stone and looked beneath it “Peace on Earth” was all it said ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2077 "2026-07-05T14:24:06Z")
And dust was my companion And thirst caked all our words Unearthing nearly nothing We swarmed like carrion birds Some for fortune, some for greed Some for want, some for need But you could only find yourself that way ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2026, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2078 "2026-07-05T14:55:16Z")
Rock on, gold dust woman Take your silver spoon, dig your grave ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2079 "2026-07-05T15:11:38Z")
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth The dark side of nighttime faces down the usual space inside And I could dare to look me in the eye Postcard opportunities are what you buy It’s a genuine problem you won’t solve To look out of target just passing by, passing by ---
**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:** [July 5, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2080 "2026-07-05T16:09:57Z")
Far from the ones who abandoned you Chasing the love of these humans Who made you feel wanted You try to be tough But your armor’s just not hard enough! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=105)