# 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:** 122
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2026, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2421 "2026-09-20T21:34:27Z")
Don’t believe the devil I don’t believe his book But the truth is not the same Without the lies he made up Don’t believe in excess Success is to give Don’t believe in riches But you should see where I live I… I believe in love ---
**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:** [September 20, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2422 "2026-09-20T21:46:50Z")
And the devil in a black dress watches over My guardian angel walks away Life is short and Love is always over in the morning Black wind come carry me far away With the sunlight dying and night above me With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain inside You run for cover in the Temple of Love You run for another it’s all the same For the wind will blow and throw your walls aside ---
**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 20, 2026, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2423 "2026-09-20T21:51:32Z")
I lit up from Reno I was trailed by twenty hounds Didn’t get to sleep that night Till the morning came around Set out running but I’ll take my time A friend of the devil is a friend of mine If I get home before daylight Just might get some sleep tonight ---
**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 20, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2424 "2026-09-20T23:06:58Z")
I could be a movie star, the King of Hollywood Make 'em cry, dramatically pretending to keep romance alive And I would humbly thank my director Everyone involved from the start I could blow them all away, if I only found the part Oh, if I just get through this night Oh, if I just get through this night ---
**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:** [September 20, 2026, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2425 "2026-09-20T23:17:07Z")
Do you want to be an angel, Do you wanna be a star Do you wanna play some magic On my guitar Do you wanna be a poet Do you wanna be my string You could be anything ---
**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 20, 2026, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2426 "2026-09-20T23:21:48Z")
It gets in your eyes It’s making you cry Don’t know what to do Don’t know what to do You’re looking for love Call heaven above Send me an angel Send me an angel Right now Right now ---
**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 21, 2026, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2427 "2026-09-21T01:37:15Z")
Heaven must be missin’ an angel Missin’ one angel, child, 'cause you’re here with me right now Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel _– Tavares_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2428 "2026-09-21T02:42:43Z")
Heaven, I’m in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek ---
**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 21, 2026, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2429 "2026-09-21T04:05:14Z")
My baby moves at midnight Goes right on 'til the dawn My woman, take me higher My woman, keep me warm What you doin’ on your back? Hey What you doin’ on your back? Hey You should be dancing, yeah Dancing, yeah ---
**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:** [September 21, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2430 "2026-09-21T11:10:45Z")
We’re free to fly the crimson sky The sun won’t melt our wings tonight Oh now Oh yeah, here she comes Take me higher Take me higher You take me higher You take me higher You’re the real thing Yeah the real thing You’re the real thing Even better than the real thing ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2431 "2026-09-21T15:15:09Z")
I’d like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony And I′d like to buy the world a Coke And keep it company It′s the real thing ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2432 "2026-09-21T15:39:35Z")
Somewhere between earth and heaven the C 17 flies. Heading westward homewards through clean clear safe blue skies. At the back of the airplane lying alone draped in his country’s flag they’re bringing Buddy home. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2433 "2026-09-21T15:44:27Z")
Well how do you do, Private William McBride Do you mind if I sit here down by your grave side? I’ll rest for awhile in the warm summer sun I’ve been walking all day and I’m nearly done And I see by your gravestone that you were only 19 When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916 Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Or, young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they sound the pipes lowly? Did the rifles fire o’er ye as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sing ‘The Last Post’ in chorus? Did the pipes play ‘The Flowers o’ the Forest’? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2434 "2026-09-21T17:10:24Z")
I had a first cousin called Arthur McBride He and I took a stroll down by the seaside; A seeking good fortune and what might betide Being just as the day was a-dawning Then after resting we both took a tramp We met Sergeant Harper and Corporal Cramp Besides the wee drummer who beats up the camp With his rowdy-dow-dow in the morning ---
**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:** [September 21, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2435 "2026-09-21T17:31:40Z")
Corporal Clegg had a wooden leg He won it in the war In nineteen forty four Corporal Clegg had a medal too In orange, red and blue He found it in the zoo Dear, oh dear, oh Are they really sad for me? Dear, oh dear, oh Will they really laugh at me? Missus Clegg, you must be proud of him Missus Clegg, another drop of gin ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2436 "2026-09-22T02:25:58Z")
Mrs. Brown, you’ve got a lovely daughter Girls as sharp as her are somethin’ rare But it’s sad, she doesn’t love me now She’s made it clear enough, it ain’t no good to pine ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2437 "2026-09-22T02:46:56Z")
I’ve been standing at the edge of the water Long as I can remember, never really knowing why I wish I could be the perfect daughter But I come back to the water, no matter how hard I try ---
**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:** [September 22, 2026, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2438 "2026-09-22T13:37:11Z")
He was no more (he was no more) Than a baby then Well, he seemed broken-hearted Something within him But the moment that I first laid Eyes on him All alone, on the edge of seventeen ---
**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:** [September 22, 2026, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2439 "2026-09-22T13:40:20Z")
Now here I go again, I see the crystal visions I keep my visions to myself It’s only me who wants to wrap around your dreams and, Have you any dreams you’d like to sell? Dreams of loneliness, Like a heartbeat, drives you mad In the stillness of remembering What you had And what you lost And what you had And what you lost ---
**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 22, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2440 "2026-09-22T14:20:33Z")
In these days, when darkness falls early And people rush home to the ones they love You’d better take a fool’s advice Take care of your own Cuz one day they’re here; next day they’re gone [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=121) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=123)