# 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:** 26
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/501 "2025-08-14T22:54:59Z")
It was dark all around There was frost in the ground When the tigers broke free And no one survived From the Royal Fusiliers Company Z They were all left behind Most of them dead The rest of them dying And that’s how the High Command Took my daddy from me ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/502 "2025-08-15T14:15:22Z")
Them soldiers they fired Oh ma did we run But when we turned around The battle begun Then I went under Oh ma, am I done Hey, hey momma, look sharp ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/503 "2025-08-15T14:24:05Z")
Daddy’s rifle in my hand felt reassurin’ He told me, Red means run, son, numbers add up to nothin’ But when the first shot hit the docks I saw it comin’ Raised my rifle to my eye Never stopped to wonder why. Then I saw black, And my face splashed in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/504 "2025-08-15T14:33:06Z")
There’s trouble on the street tonight I can feel it in my bones, I had a premonition That he should not go alone I knew the gun was loaded But I didn’t think he’d kill Everything exploded, and the blood began to spill ---
**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 15, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/505 "2025-08-15T14:50:16Z")
Boy, boy, crazy boy, Get cool, boy! Got a rocket in your pocket, Keep coolly cool, boy! Don’t get hot, 'Cause man, you got Some high times ahead. Take it slow and Daddy-O, You can live it up and die in bed! ---
**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 15, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/506 "2025-08-15T15:15:01Z")
All around me the air sings a melody Chin is up, so the scene belongs to me Something’s up in a way that’s rightfully Rocket silver, so clean and clear to see Here it comes like a silver symphony Fired from my mind Rocket Silver Symphony Out of my mind-Rocket Silver Symphony ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/507 "2025-08-15T15:34:34Z")
A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain of a haunting refrain She’ll start up-on a marathon And run around your brain You can’t escape she’s in your memory By morning night and noon She will leave you and then come back again A pretty girl is just like a pretty tune ---
**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 17, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/508 "2025-08-17T00:36:57Z")
I had a date with a pretty ballerina Her hair so brilliant that it hurtin’ my eyes I asked her for this dance and then she obliged me Was I surprised? Yeah Was I surprised? No, not at all I called her yesterday, it should have been tomorrow I could not keep this joy that was inside I beg for her to tell me if she really loved me ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/509 "2025-08-17T01:47:04Z")
Dance, ballerina, dance And do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin’ heart Dance, ballerina, dance You mustn’t once forget a dancer has to dance the part ---
**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 17, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/510 "2025-08-17T01:55:49Z")
Ballerina, you must of seen her.. Dancing in the sand… And now she’s in me, always with me… Tiny dancer in my hand… ---
**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 17, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/511 "2025-08-17T02:02:33Z")
Ballerina girl The joy you bring me Every day and night Holding you tight How I’ve waited for your love ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/512 "2025-08-18T03:05:12Z")
Joy, to the world, was a beautiful girl but to me Joy meant only sorrow. ---
**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 18, 2025, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/513 "2025-08-18T03:14:44Z")
Jeremiah was a bullfrog. ---
**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 18, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/514 "2025-08-18T04:22:01Z")
All along I believed I would find you, Time has brought your heart to me I have loved you for 1000 years. I will love you for 1000 more… ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/515 "2025-08-18T09:27:37Z")
He waits to see you For it has been long since you left him On his own to wander Woman of a thousand years How are your sons of a time ago Do they still admire your silvered ways As you go down To the sea and golden sand ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/516 "2025-08-18T11:06:14Z")
I wonder, as I wander, out under the sky How Jesus, our Savior, did come for to die For poor, orn’ry people like you and like I I wonder as I wander, out under the sky ---
**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 18, 2025, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/517 "2025-08-18T11:42:06Z")
Long as I remember the rain been comin’ down Clouds of mystery pourin’ confusion on the ground Good men through the ages tryin’ to find the sun And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain? ---
**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 18, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/518 "2025-08-18T12:24:05Z")
Oh, war it’s an enemy to all mankind The thought of war blows my mind War has caused unrest Within the younger generation Induction then destruction Who wants to die? Oh War, huh (good God y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it, say it, say it War (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to me ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/519 "2025-08-18T13:20:17Z")
And it’s 1, 2, 3, what’re we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn Next stop is Vietnam And it’s 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain’t no time to wonder why Whoopee! We’re all gonna die ---
**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 18, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/520 "2025-08-18T21:16:49Z")
Wake up to mortar attack Hit the ground, I’m out of the rack My sergeant rushes me off to chow But I don’t eat it anyhow Oh hail, Oh hail, Oh infantry Queen of battle, follow me Oh, airborne ranger’s the life for me For nothing in this world is free From a big bird in the sky All will jump and some will die Off to battle we will go To live or die, hell I don’t know [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=27)