# I've seen fire and I've seen rain 2 (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254 "2020-06-23T04:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 157
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3122 "2022-11-24T19:23:36Z")
It occurred on the evening before Waterloo, As troops were lined up on parade. And sergeant inspecting 'em, he were a terror, Of whom every man were afraid. All excepting one man, he were in’t front rank, A man by t’name of Sam Small. And he and t’sergeant were both daggers drawn, They thought nowt of each other at all. As sergeant walked past he was swinging his arms, And he happened to brush against Sam. And knocking t’musket clean out of ‘is hand, It fell t’ground wi’ a slam. “Pick it up!” said sergeant, abrupt like, but cool. But Sam wi’ a shake of 'is ‘ead. Said "Seeing as tha knocked it out of my hand, P’rhaps tha’ll pick t’ thing up instead. Sam, Sam, pick up tha musket! The sergeant exclaimed with a roar. Sam said tha’ knocked it down reasonin’ Tha’ll pick it up, or it stays, where t’is on the floor. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3123 "2022-11-25T02:34:35Z")
My, my At Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender Oh, yeah And I have met my destiny in quite a similar way The history book on the shelf Is always repeating itself Waterloo I was defeated, you won the war Waterloo Promise to love you forever more Waterloo Couldn’t escape if I wanted to Waterloo Knowing my fate is to be with you Wa-Wa-Wa-Wa-Waterloo Finally facing my Waterloo ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3124 "2022-11-25T02:47:05Z")
The troops seeked shelter behind the rocks, the rocks Now Custer was left on his own driving his men into Hell He realized this was his final day, the final day of his life No other way, no other way than to die A foolish game, a game he could not survive This was Custer’s last stand at the battle of Little Big Horn ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3125 "2022-11-25T04:04:28Z")
We fired our guns 'til the barrels melted down Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind And when we touched the powder off the 'gator lost his mind ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3126 "2022-11-25T07:09:19Z")
Goddamn, well, I declare Have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannon balls, Their motto is “Don’t Tread on Me.” Come hear Uncle John’s Band Playing to the tide. Uncle John’s Band – _The Grateful Dead_ — covered in the '90s by Jimmy Buffett _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3127 "2022-11-25T07:36:44Z")
So be it Threaten no more To secure peace is to prepare for war So be it Settle the score Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore Don’t tread on me ---
**Author:** ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3128 "2022-11-25T10:37:31Z")
I said, war, huh (good God, y’all) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, just say it again War (whoa), huh (oh Lord) What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, listen to 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:** [November 25, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3129 "2022-11-25T15:33:01Z")
Forward he cried from the rear And the front rank died And the general sat And the lines on the map Moved from side to side ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3130 "2022-11-25T17:25:55Z")
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerer of death’s construction In the fields, the bodies burning As the war machine keeps turning Death and hatred to mankind Poisoning their brainwashed minds Oh lord, yeah! ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3131 "2022-11-25T18:14:32Z")
Generals and Majors ah ah They’re never too far Away from men who made the grade Out in a world of their own They’ll never come down Until the battle’s lost or made, whoa Generals and Majors always Seem so unhappy 'less they got a war ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3132 "2022-11-25T18:44:26Z")
I am the very model of a modern major-general, I’ve information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical. I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem, I’m teeming with a lot o’ news – With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. I’m very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous, In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general. I know our mythic history, King Arthur’s and Sir Caradoc’s, I answer hard acrostics, I’ve a pretty taste for paradox, I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus, In conics, I can floor peculiarities parabolous. I can tell undoubted Rafaels from Gerard Dowes and Zoffanys, I know the croaking chorus of the Frogs of Aristophanes, Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s din afore, And whistle all the airs to that infernal nonsense Pinafore; Then I can write a washing-bill in Babylonic cuneiform And tell you every detail of Caractacus’ uniform. In short, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general. In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”, When I can tell at sight a Mauser\* rifle from a javelin, When such affairs as sorties and surprises I’m more wary at, And when I know precisely what is meant by “Commissariat” – When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery, When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery, In short, when I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy, You’ll say a better major-general has never sat agee. For my military knowledge, though I’m plucky and adventury, Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century. But still, in matters vegetable, animal and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3133 "2022-11-25T21:37:41Z")
Jet, Jet, Jet Was your father as bold as the sergeant major? Well how come he told you that you were hardly old enough yet? And Jet, I thought the major was a lady suffragette ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3134 "2022-11-25T21:56:32Z")
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:** ![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:** [November 25, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3135 "2022-11-25T22:12:07Z")
[**PP** , mind the length else the mods might shut us down, tho that one I think is in the public domain…] Wait until the war is over And we’re both a little older The unknown soldier Breakfast where the news is read Television children fed Unborn living, living, dead Bullet strikes the helmet’s head And it’s all over For the unknown soldier ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3136 "2022-11-26T06:08:03Z")
I am just an aging drummer boy And in the wars I used to play And I’ve called a tune To many a torture session Now they say I am a war criminal And I’m fading away Father, please hear my confession ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3137 "2022-11-26T14:13:14Z")
[Yes, I made sure that Gilbert & Sullivan’s work was in Public Domain first.] For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes, I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain’t a-marching anymore ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3138 "2022-11-26T14:34:23Z")
Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more Hit the road Jack and don’t you come back no more What you say? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3139 "2022-11-26T15:52:48Z")
And here I go again on my own Going down the only road I’ve ever known Like a drifter I was born to walk alone And I’ve made up my mind I ain’t wasting no more time ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3140 "2022-11-26T19:04:34Z")
My shoes are wearing out from walking down this same highway I don’t see nothing new but I feel a lot of change And I get the strangest feeling As I’m heading for the light ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2022, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/3141 "2022-11-26T22:42:29Z")
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