# 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:** 127
**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 15, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2521 "2026-10-15T21:19:56Z")
All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die" Says the man next to me, out of nowhere It’s apropos of nothing He says his name is William But I’m sure he’s Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy And he’s plain ugly to me And I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday In a bar that faces a giant car wash ---
**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 15, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2522 "2026-10-15T21:43:09Z")
In a bar in Toledo Across from the depot On a barstool, she took off her ring I thought I’d get closer So I walked on over I sat down and asked her, her name When the drinks finally hit her She said, “I’m no quitter” But I finally quit living on dreams I’m hungry for laughter And here ever after I’m after whatever the other life brings ---
**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:** [October 15, 2026, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2523 "2026-10-15T22:09:54Z")
Sit up, fed up, low down go round Down to the bar at the place I’m at Sitting drinking, superficially thinking About the rinsed-out blonde on my left Then I said, “Hi,” like a spider to a fly Remembering what my little girl said ---
**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:** [October 16, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2524 "2026-10-16T00:00:04Z")
You’re every wonder in this world to me A treasure time won’t steal away So listen to my heart Lay your body close to mine Let me touch you with my love I can make you feel so right And baby, through the years Gonna love you more each day So I promise you tonight That you will always be the lady in my life ---
**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 18, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2525 "2026-10-18T01:58:23Z")
Lay your head upon my pillow Hold your warm and tender body close to mine Hear the whisper of the raindrops fallin’ soft against the window And make believe you love me one more time For the good times ---
**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 18, 2026, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2526 "2026-10-18T02:38:24Z")
Now wakes the hour Now sleeps the swan Behold a dream The dream is gone Green fields A cold rain is falling In a golden dawn And deep beneath the ground The early morning sounds And I go down Sleepy time, and I lie With my love by my side And she’s breathing low ---
**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:** [October 18, 2026, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2527 "2026-10-18T13:31:39Z")
I’m a sleepy time baby A sleepy time boy Work only maybe Life is a joy We’ll have a sleepy time time We’ll have a sleepy time time We’ll have a sleepy time time We’ll have a sleepy time time Sleepy time time Sleepy time time all the time ---
**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 18, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2528 "2026-10-18T16:21:00Z")
Morning girl, how’d ya sleep last night You’re several ages older now Your eyes have started showing how The little girl’s growing now Morning girl, was that you last night Crying on the radio? Begging for a way to go Back where life wasn’t jumbled so ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2529 "2026-10-18T19:03:48Z")
Good mornin’, starshine The Earth says, “Hello” You twinkle above us We twinkle below Good mornin’, starshine You lead us along My love and me as we singing Our early mornin’ singin’ song ---
**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 18, 2026, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2530 "2026-10-18T21:43:58Z")
Starshine You used to be silver Love light, Lover’s stare Well you used to make me shiver ---
**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:** [October 18, 2026, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2531 "2026-10-18T23:36:36Z")
Don’t be concerned, it will not harm you It’s only me pursuing something I’m not sure of Out of my dream, with nets of wonder I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love ---
**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 19, 2026, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2532 "2026-10-19T13:52:19Z")
Oh, with all that I’ve done wrong I must have done something right To deserve a hug every morning And butterfly kisses at night Butterfly Kisses – _Bob Carlisle_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2533 "2026-10-19T16:21:34Z")
Perhaps I had a wicked childhood, Perhaps I had a miserable youth, But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past, There must have been a moment of truth. For here you are standing there loving me Whether or not you should. So, somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good. Nothing comes from nothing, Nothing ever could. So, somewhere in my youth or childhood I must have done something good. ---
**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 19, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2534 "2026-10-19T16:55:49Z")
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing You gotta have something if you want to be with me Nothing from nothing leaves nothing You gotta have something if you want to be with me ---
**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:** [October 19, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2535 "2026-10-19T18:22:32Z")
Someday I’ll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Oh, high above the chimney tops, that’s where you’ll find me Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly Birds fly over the rainbow; why, oh, why can’t I? ---
**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 19, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2536 "2026-10-19T20:09:47Z")
Sing a song of sixpence for your sake And take a bottle full of rye, mmmm.., Four and twenty blackbirds on a plate And you bake them in a pie, yeah… Handbags and Gladrags – _Chase_ Sure, Rod Stewart covered it, as did several others, but I believe [the 1971, brass-heavy version by the jazz/rock fusion band ‘Chase’](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRl_E1BcnI) is still the best ---
**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 19, 2026, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2537 "2026-10-19T21:49:13Z")
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of a dark black 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:** [October 19, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2538 "2026-10-19T23:33:37Z")
Fly blackbird fly Frozen the sea I see you Coal cover clouds new snow there they go Silent amber wings Sun orange small I see you Nowhere is home go alone and alone ---
**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:** [October 20, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2539 "2026-10-20T00:57:42Z")
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:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2540 "2026-10-20T03:02:41Z")
Well, the Lord, He thought He’d make a man Dem bones are gonna rise again So He took a little water, He took a little sand Dem bones are gonna rise again I knowed it, knowed it Indeed I knowed it, brother I knowed it, hey! Dem bones are gonna rise again [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=126) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=128)