# 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:** 126
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2501 "2026-10-06T03:05:41Z")
We come on the sloop John B My grandfather and me Around Nassau town, we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight Well, I feel so broke up I want to go home So hoist up the John B’s sail See how the mainsail sets Call for the captain ashore Let me go home Let me go home I wanna go home, yeah-yeah, yeah Well, I feel so broke up I wanna go home ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2502 "2026-10-06T14:38:31Z")
Well I’m on the downeaster “Alexa” And I’m cruising through Block Island Sound I have charted a course to the Vineyard But tonight I am Nantucket bound So I could own my downeaster “Alexa” And I go where the ocean is deep There are giants out there in the canyons And a good captain can’t fall asleep ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2503 "2026-10-06T17:31:13Z")
In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines So we sailed up to the sun 'Til we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarine We all live in a yellow submarine Yellow submarine, yellow submarineI’m ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2504 "2026-10-06T18:57:48Z")
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall You’ve seen it all, you’ve seen it all Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late The cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunder I’m an over-40 victim of fate Arriving too late, arriving too late ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2505 "2026-10-06T21:59:21Z")
I was a sailor I was born upon the tide And with the sea I did abide I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed But I am living still ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2506 "2026-10-06T23:12:52Z")
When you see the Southern Cross for the first time, You understand now why you came this way. Cause the truth you might be running from is so small. But it’s as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day. So I’m sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a dying. And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain. I have my ship and all her flags are a flying. She is all that I have left and music is her name. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2507 "2026-10-07T00:11:48Z")
We sailed for parts unknown to man Where ships come home to die No lofty peak, nor fortress bold Could match our captain’s eye Upon the seventh seasick day We made our port of call A sand so white, and sea so blue No mortal place at all ---
**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:** [October 9, 2026, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2508 "2026-10-09T16:02:28Z")
Islands in the stream That is what we are No one in-between How can we be wrong? Sail away with me to another world And we rely on each other, ah-ah From one lover to another, ah-ah Sail away Oh, come sail away with me ---
**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:** [October 9, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2509 "2026-10-09T18:18:16Z")
Are you sitting on a tiny island As the tide rolls in on you? Are you getting that sinking feeling As it all comes home to you? Picture the wings that take you home Home to the love you need That’s what you need ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2510 "2026-10-10T03:56:56Z")
Take these broken wings And learn to fly again, learn to live so free When we hear the voices sing The book of love will open up and let us in Take these broken wings ---
**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:** [October 11, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2511 "2026-10-11T01:02:20Z")
This girl is a woman now She’s learned how to give This girl is a woman now She’s found out what it’s all about And she’s learning, learning to live ---
**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:** [October 11, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2512 "2026-10-11T15:10:49Z")
Don’t you know, girl, you’ll be a woman soon Please, come take my hand Girl, you’ll be a woman soon Soon, you’ll need a man Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon – _Neil Diamond_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [October 11, 2026, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2513 "2026-10-11T15:44:49Z")
Dark as the night comes to share With stars in her hair And grand majestic flair Framed, a world passes by With the sound of a young girl’s sigh Man carrying a brow Smoke rises from the crowd Here for now ---
**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:** [October 12, 2026, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2514 "2026-10-12T01:15:40Z")
We all came out to Montreux On the Lake Geneva shoreline To make records with a mobile We didn’t have much time Frank Zappa and the Mothers Were at the best place around But some stupid with a flare gun Burned the place to the ground Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky Smoke on the water ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2515 "2026-10-12T01:29:26Z")
They asked me how I knew My true love was true I of course replied Something here inside cannot be denied They said “someday you’ll find all who love are blind” When your heart’s on fire, You must realize, smoke gets in your eyes ---
**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:** [October 12, 2026, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2516 "2026-10-12T13:06:00Z")
I dreamt it last night That my true love came in So softly she entered Her feet made no din She came close beside me And this she did say: “It will not be long, love Till our wedding day” ---
**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:** [October 14, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2517 "2026-10-14T21:04:04Z")
Into my room he creeps Without making a sound Into my dreams he peeps With his hair all long and hanging down How he makes me quiver How he makes me smile With all this love I have to give him I guess I’m gonna stay with him awhile ---
**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:** [October 14, 2026, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2518 "2026-10-14T21:05:52Z")
The preacher asked her, and she said “I do.” The preacher asked me, and she said “Yes, he does, too.” The preacher said “I pronounce you 99 - to life.” “Son, she’s no lady, she’s your wife.” ---
**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:** [October 14, 2026, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2519 "2026-10-14T21:39:51Z")
Arrive in a hive city Somewhere in the east Floating down a crowded street As though I am or I will be released Elly’s stopped yawning Clear blue morning In mourning no more Come and see the wild things that are Just beyond the door But there’s an old man here He claims that he knew you in another life I’m not sure what he’s sayin’, Elly, Could it be he still thinks you’re his wife? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2026, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2520 "2026-10-15T01:57:23Z")
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday The regular crowd shuffles in There’s an old man sitting next to me Making love to his tonic and gin He says, “Son, can you play me a memory? I’m not really sure how it goes But it’s sad and it’s sweet And I knew it complete When I wore a younger man’s clothes.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=125) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=127)