Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 06:15 PM

I have PM'd you

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: GUEST,oldhippie
Date: 23 Oct 06 - 07:48 AM

e-mailed you but havent gotten a response.

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Oct 06 - 08:43 PM

Hello OldHippie, please email me.

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 17 Oct 06 - 04:15 AM

I have the tune oldhippie, or were you addressing Joe? I'd like to hear your version anyway. Yes I can play MP3 on this computer (or one of the others on my network anyway) EMail me at [e-mail].

You'll need to take the NOSPAM out of that of course.....

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: GUEST,oldhippie
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 06:21 PM

I could e-mail you the version from my CD. Can you play mp3 file on your computer?

Subject: RE: Origins/Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 16 Oct 06 - 11:44 AM

I missed your input on the tune Joe, sorry. I have no idea how to do MIDI, ABC, or Noteworthy, but I could sing it/play it for you if you were passing....

Is it any use if I offer to post (mail) a cassette tape of appalling quality, if I make one?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 May 06 - 02:05 AM

Hi, Richard - you'll note that I combined this thread with the "origins" thread. In general, it's best to have one thread for one song, and not separate out tune, chords, lyrics, origins, and whatnot.
Incorporation into the Digital Tradition is an extended process, and there's no guarantee that every song posted at Mudcat will be selected - singer-songwriter songs and songs without tunes are given lower preference, after traditional songs with tunes. The longer process also may give others a chance to offer comments and corrections.

However, the song is now posted, and it is immediately available to anyone who wants to look for it.
Do you happen to have a tune in MIDI/ABC/Noteworthy for this one?
It's a good song.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 May 06 - 05:43 PM

Thank you, I did not know that. Lots of catching up to do when the machinery settles down again then!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 05 May 06 - 04:57 PM

I think the last time the Digital Tradition database was updated was spring 2002.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 May 06 - 01:45 PM

Maybe I am missing some element of protocol here - or mabe all mudelves are too busy resurrecting dead cats, but this rather good song is still not in the digitrad.

Is there a reason, or am I just premature in asking?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Anthem of the Rainbow
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 May 06 - 02:21 PM

This does not seem to have found its way to the digitrad, so "refresh"

Subject: RE: Anthem of the Rainbow (Lyr?) + Authors?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 May 06 - 01:46 PM

Who knows?

Subject: RE: Anthem of the Rainbow (Lyr?) + Authors?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 May 06 - 09:42 AM

According to this page, there was a Robert Cosbey who taught English at Roosevelt College in Chicago in the 1950's—it says he was an inspiration to one of his students, Shel Silverstein. Coincidence?

Subject: Lyr Add: ANTHEM OF THE RAINBOW
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 May 06 - 04:47 AM

In the absence of any messages saying these words are already in the Digitrad, here they are.

Amazing how many 60s protest songs are so relevant today!

ANTHEM OF THE RAINBOW
Forest Tollis and Robert Cosbey Jr (approx 1963)

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.

Subject: Anthem of the Rainbow (Lyr?) + Authors?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 01 May 06 - 05:39 PM

At the Sunday session at the Good Intent at Rochester Sweeps Festival ny daughter Rachel sang "Anthem of the Rainbow" and we were asked who it was by. We didn't know - only having my late wife Jacqui's transcription of the lyrics to go on. The mudcat seems not to list the song, and a google produced only offers to sell me a copy of "Odetta sings folk songs".

So a consult of the sleeve notes since Jacqui had owed a copy already reveals (from the 1963 recording) "by two young Chicago songwriters Forest Tollis and Robert Cosbey Jr".

Before I post the lyrics, are they in the mudcat and I am simply failing to find them?

Secondly, google reveals nothing else about either of the two stated songwriters. Are they known for anything else?