# 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:** 23
**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 8, 2025, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/441 "2025-08-08T20:58:03Z")
I remember to this day the bright red Georgia clay And how it stuck to the tires after the summer rain Will power made that old car go A woman’s mind told me that so Oh how I wish we were back on the road again ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/442 "2025-08-08T21:04:28Z")
Just about a year ago I set out on the road Seekin’ my fame and fortune Lookin’ for a pot of gold Things got bad, and things got worse I guess you will know the tune Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/443 "2025-08-08T22:45:58Z")
An’ me, I nearly got busted An’ wouldn’t it be my luck To get caught without a ticket And be discovered beneath a truck Oh, Mama, can this really be the end To be stuck inside of Mobile With the Memphis blues again ---
**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:** [August 8, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/444 "2025-08-08T23:11:00Z")
Summertime in equatorial Manhattan And all the people with the puddles on their backs Are filling up the cracks Between the cars and buildings I don’t care you’re white, or red, or black, or Latin The season’s scratching like a hamster on your head You take a little walk outside “One with onions and a small papaya” You’re sitting underneath a gingko tree Crazy people in their suits go by ya It may be hazy but it’s still A beautiful place ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/445 "2025-08-09T14:12:31Z")
Summertime in Virginia was a oven (oven) All the kids eating ice cream with their cousins (cousins) I was studyin’ while you was playing the dozens (dozens) Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t Runnin’ from the man (man) runnin’ from the badge (badge) Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t Runnin’ toward our plans (plans) and the judges hands (hands) Don’t act like you was there when you wasn’t ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/446 "2025-08-09T15:26:18Z")
The fox is done running And the beast is at bay He’d run them in circles By the end of the day And they chased him through the brambles And they chased him through the fields And they could chase him forever But the fox would not yield ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/447 "2025-08-09T16:22:03Z")
What does the fox say? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/448 "2025-08-09T19:10:35Z")
Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/449 "2025-08-09T20:02:42Z")
_“Pour some sugar on me_…” ---
**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 9, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/450 "2025-08-09T22:01:56Z")
You got me lifted shifted higher than a ceiling And ooh-wee it’s the ultimate feeling You got me lifted feeling so gifted Suga, how you get so fly? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/451 "2025-08-09T22:40:47Z")
Now once, I was downhearted Disappointment was my closest friend But then you came, and it soon departed You know, and it never showed its face again You know your love (your love keeps lifting me) Keeps on lifting me (love keeps lifting me) Higher, higher and higher You know your love keeps on Lifting me higher and higher ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/452 "2025-08-10T02:20:38Z")
Up, up and away My beautiful My beautiful balloon ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/453 "2025-08-10T02:25:36Z")
He’ll fly his astral plane Take you trips around the bay Bring you back the same day Timothy Leary ---
**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 10, 2025, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/454 "2025-08-10T11:27:09Z")
Because it’s all inside Because it’s all inside I was born to fly, fly pretty high So waste your time On people who don’t know which way to go They’ll never take you up Never take you up in the sky Because it’s all in the mind ---
**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:** [August 10, 2025, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/455 "2025-08-10T11:37:46Z")
Raise the sky We got to fly over the land, over the sea Fate unwinds; and if we die, souls arise God, do not seize me please, till victory ---
**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:** [August 10, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/456 "2025-08-10T12:24:16Z")
When I’m flying on a plane or I’m on the street There’s a lot of friendly people that I like to meet They shake my hand and never ask my name And they start asking questions that are always the same, hey: “What’s Michael J. Fox like?” “He’s nice.” “What’s Christopher Lloyd like?” “Kinda quiet.” “What’s Crispin Glover like?” “…Unusual.” Stop asking me the question! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/457 "2025-08-10T14:28:31Z")
Like Steve McQueen All I need’s a fast machine I’m gonna make it all right (ooh, ooh) Like Steve McQueen Underneath your radar screen You’ll never catch me tonight (ooh, ooh) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/458 "2025-08-10T15:33:29Z")
Yeah, Ali McGraw got mad with you For givin’ head to Steve McQueen Yeah, you and me, we made a pretty pair Fallin’ through the silver screen Honey, I’m open to anythin’ I don’t know where to draw the line Yeah, I’m makin’ bets that you gonna get John Wayne before he dies ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/459 "2025-08-10T15:39:28Z")
And Roy Rogers is riding tonight Across that wide silver screen ---
**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 10, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/460 "2025-08-10T16:21:37Z")
One thousand names that spring up in my mind One thousand names that spring up in my mind Like Dio Donna, Mike Collins you know, Robert DeNiro, so many others Nastassja Kinski and Martin Luther There’s room for others away from me, ohh Up on the catwalk [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=24)