Nice to see someone else sing it other than my late wife and hence our daughter and me!

Do you know anything about the songwriters? I have the recording by Odetta. Does anyone know of any others?

ANTHEM OF THE RAINBOW
Forest Tollis and Robert Cosbey Jr

If all the grasses are yellow
What colour are the tears
That are shed for all the young fellows
In the armies along the frontiers?

Ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh.

If all the grasses are purple
What colour is the sky
Under which young men are marching
Though none know the reason why?

Once you dressed in the colour of flowers
But now you're dressed in black
And watch at the window for hours
For the men to come marching back.

And what if poppies are orange
And what if roses are red?
What cares a girl for flowers
When the one she loves is dead?

If all the rivers are golden
And silver the colour of rain
When will a maid and her soldier
Be together again?

And what does it matter
If October leaves are brown
If your love since last September
Has been sleeping 'neath the ground?

Rpt 1st verse.