# 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:** 62
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1221 "2025-12-11T05:19:03Z")
Our house, was our castle and our keep Our house, in the middle of our street Our house, that was where we used to sleep Our house, in the middle of our street ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1222 "2025-12-11T06:35:53Z")
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringin’ Roman calvary choirs are singing. Be my sword, my mirror, my shield My foreign missionaries, far afield. For some reason I can’t explain, I know St. Peter won’t call my name … ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1223 "2025-12-11T14:03:42Z")
So where to now St. Peter If it’s true I’m in your hands I may not be a Christian But I’ve done all one man can I understand I’m on the road Where all that was is gone So where to now St. Peter Show me which road I’m on Which road I’m on ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1224 "2025-12-11T14:07:53Z")
We’re on a road to nowhere Come on inside Takin’ that ride to nowhere We’ll take that ride ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1225 "2025-12-11T15:35:13Z")
Well, I’m so tired of crying But I’m out on the road again I’m on the road again Well, I’m so tired of crying But I’m out on the road again I’m on the road again I ain’t got no woman Just to call my special friend ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1226 "2025-12-11T15:46:29Z")
FIRST FLOOR DUNGEON! Assorted simple tortures! Molten lead, chopping blocks and hot boiling oil. SECOND FLOOR DUNGEON! Jewelry department! Leg chains, ankle chains, neck chains, wrist chains, thumb screws and nooses of the very finest rope. THIRD FLOOR DUNGEON! Household appliances! Spike beds, electric chairs, gas chambers, roasting pots and scalping devices. BASEMENT DUNGEON! Everybody out! ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1227 "2025-12-11T16:06:07Z")
Flies all green and buzzin’, in this dungeon of despair. Prisoners grumble and piss their clothes, and scratch their matted hair. A tiny light, from a window hole, a hundred yards away, is all they ever gets to know about the regular light in the day. And it stinks so bad, the stones been chokin’, and weepin’ greenish drops. In the room where the giant fire puffer works, and the torture never stops. ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1228 "2025-12-11T16:16:02Z")
[Amazingly, our college radio station would play that Zappa cut EVERY DAY–during lunchtime, without fail. I somehow managed to maintain a semblance of appetite anyway.] * * * Come all you young fellers so young and so fine And seek not your fortune in the dark dreary mine It’ll form as a habit and seep in your soul Till the stream of your blood is as black as the coal Where it’s dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines Lord it’s a dark as a dungeon way down in the mines ---
**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:** [December 11, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1229 "2025-12-11T21:52:03Z")
Someday in a nuclear age, they will understand our rage They build machines that they can’t control, and bury the waste in a great big hole Power was to become cheap and clean; grimy faces were never seen Deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon-fourteen We work the black seam together We work the black seam together ---
**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:** [December 12, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1230 "2025-12-12T01:50:27Z")
Don’t you understand what I’m trying to say Can’t you feel the fears I’m feeling today? If the button is pushed, there’s no runnin’ away There’ll be no one to save with the world in a grave Take a look around you boy, it’s bound to scare you, boy And you tell me Over and over and over again, my friend How you don’t believe We’re on the eve of destruction ---
**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:** [December 12, 2025, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1231 "2025-12-12T02:17:45Z")
It’s christmas at ground zero The button has been pressed The Radio just let us know That this is not a test ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1232 "2025-12-12T14:56:26Z")
Ninety-nine Decision Street Ninety-nine ministers meet To worry, worry, super scurry Call the troops out in a hurry This is what we’ve waited for This is it, boys, this is war The president is on the line As ninety-nine red balloons go by ---
**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:** [December 12, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1233 "2025-12-12T16:14:56Z")
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**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1234 "2025-12-12T16:34:36Z")
Worst. Road-trip. Song. Ever. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1235 "2025-12-12T17:08:27Z")
On the twelfth day of Christmas Although it may seem strange On the twelfth day of Christmas I’m going to exchange An automatic vegetable slicer That works when you see it on television But not when you get it home Chromium combination manicure scissors and cigarette lighter A pair of teakwood shower clogs Indoor plastic birdbath Pink satin pillow that says San Diego with fringe all around it Hammered aluminum nutcracker Statue of a naked lady with a clock Where her stomach ought to be Simulated alligator wallet A calendar book with the name of my insurance man Green polka dot pajamas And a Japanese transistor radio Merry Christmas, everybody! ---
**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:** [December 12, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1236 "2025-12-12T18:58:40Z")
Down in the workshop, all the elves are making toys For the good gentile girls, and the good gentile boys When the boss busted in, nearly scared 'em half to death Had a rifle in his hands, and cheap whiskey on his breath From his beard to his boots, he was covered with ammo Like a big, fat, drunk, disgruntled Yuletide Rambo And he smiled as he said, with a twinkle in his eye “Merry Christmas to all, now you’re all gonna die!” The night Santa went crazy The night Saint Nick went insane Realized he’d been gettin’ the raw deal Something finally must’ve snapped in his brain ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1237 "2025-12-12T21:53:44Z")
Eight comic books Seven packs of smokes Six packs of two-fours Five golden toques Four pounds of back bacon Three French toasts Two turtlenecks And a bee-eeeer in a tree ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1238 "2025-12-13T01:56:54Z")
O little town of Hackensack, How still we hear thee snore; The snow-deck’d streets that reindeer feets Will soon be prancing o’er Thy winsome children wond’ring if Old Santa Claus will show; They need not fear; methinks I hear His endless ho, ho, ho. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2025, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1239 "2025-12-13T02:21:13Z")
The first day after Christmas My true love and I had a fight And so I chopped the pear tree down And burned it just for spite Then with a single cartridge I shot that blasted partridge My true love, my true love My true love gave to me ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2025, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1240 "2025-12-13T03:12:02Z")
The twelfth thing of Christmas that’s such a pain to me: - Singing Christmas carols Stale TV specials “Batteries Not Included”? No parking?! WAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAH! Charities! Gotta make ‘em dinner! Five months of bills! I’m not sendin’ them this year, that’s it! Shut up, you! FINE! YOU’RE SO SMART, YOU RIG UP THE LIGHTS!!! And finding a Christmas tree [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=61) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=63)