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Lyr Req/Add: Rainbow Warriors (various songs) Related threads: (origins) Origins: On Morecambe Bay (Kevin Littlewood) (49) Morecambe Bay Tragedy (82) info/songs: Kevin Littlewood - singer/songwriter (20) Songs about Morecambe Bay tragedy (2) |
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Subject: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST,Dylan O'Thomas Date: 09 Sep 06 - 02:10 PM A few years ago, I heard a guy at a folk club ( in the UK ) sing a song called " Rainbow Warrior" . I think his first name was Keith or Kevin, and I'm pretty sure he wrote the song; anyway, it was a beautifully crafted piece of writing. Does this ring a bell with anyone out there? |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST Date: 09 Sep 06 - 02:22 PM There are many songs that have Rainbow Warrior in the title. Do you have any words at all or can you recall the gist of the song? Anything at all? That would be a big help if you can. |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST Date: 09 Sep 06 - 02:27 PM For example, here are the lyrics from a song by Throes of Dawn to a song entitled "The Last Rainbow Warrior is Dead". Bitter funerals in silence held twelve coffins laid to earth To dust all human hope to wither The last rainbow warriors is dead Ours is the world of tragedy Ours is the world of grief For countless, gray days of dismay It's been snowing black ashes upon these devastated lands Dreadful are the storms that grind these mountains to sand Hear the voice of destruction as it screams through our souls With the vast storms it walks Proud destruction in human form The last rainbow warrior is dead! Behold the rising of the furious dawn it's hollow black rays kill the colours and the meaning of life The last rainbow warrior is dead! The spring yields to winter neverending: For silence will walk the earth the silence of the stars above a desolate world that snows under: into dreams endless enter city after city continent after continent Here also are the lyrics to "Rainbow Warrior" by a band named Buggles: Run Run for shelter Hide from the wind Further on We may help you In the end Sun Sun as always Will guard where you lay And the walls are down And the waters drown Where you stay Waiting Waiting Waiting for the Rainbow Warrior So Son of logic Boy born of light Is the picture drawn Is the harvest one Step away Waiting Waiting Waiting for the Rainbow Warrior Any info you have would be great to get. Thanks, Dylan O'Thomas. BTW, is it you who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Dublin"? |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Mick Pearce (MCP) Date: 09 Sep 06 - 03:47 PM Rod Shearman also wrote a song called The Good Ship Rainbow Warrior with chorus:
It's on his Off To Sea Again CD (with a nice bit of guitar playing by someone whose name I'm too modest to mention). Mick |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Richard Bridge Date: 09 Sep 06 - 04:06 PM Is this likely to be the one about the Greenpeace ship - I thinkthe hook or chorus goes "Ride on Rainbow Warrior"? |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 09 Sep 06 - 04:08 PM Rainbow Warrior, the mascot of the University of Hawaii. |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST Date: 09 Sep 06 - 04:21 PM Rainbow Warrior Týr lyrics Artist: Týr Album: Eric, The Red Year: 2003 Title: Rainbow Warrior From the fields of concrete slabs, towers of stone. 'cross an ocean before his bow Came the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of the Rainbow to tell us how Our ways unchanged for centuries do dismay concrete hearts Wake emotions perfect for his confidence tricks And though we may be human we are still animals Weakling of the food chain, the only way that I see is to Curse the weak link, What's out Come your down fall, Lights out May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats no more, there are no Lights on That obtrusive creep all, What's on By the fields of good and green, mountains of home, in an ocean beneath the sun Stood the haggard Warrior, now his crusade, fame and fortune it had begun So holier than thou art, all marine mammals friend Change your evil ways now or with terror I strike Why can't you do like we do, pay your way 'round the blood When it's on the table you won't know whence it came, I say Curse the weak link, What's out Come your down fall, Lights out May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats no more, there are no Lights on That obtrusive creep all, What's on To the fields of concrete slabs, towers of stone. 'cross an ocean behind his stern Went the haggard Warrior all clad in rust of the Rainbow, when will they learn That nature is against them, with that all stands and falls Weakling of the food chain, the only way that I see is to Curse the weak link, What's out Come your down fall, Lights out May your ship sink, Rainbow Warrior floats no more, there are no Lights on That obtrusive creep all, What's on |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Lady Hillary Date: 10 Sep 06 - 12:37 AM There is also a Rainbow Warrior song to the melody of Gone, Never Rise again. |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST,hybridpicker Date: 10 Sep 06 - 09:57 AM I remember a guy called Kevin Littlewood who used to play in south Wales a few years ago. He sang a song called "Rainbow Warrior". |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Chris Green Date: 10 Sep 06 - 10:16 AM I think you mean Mick Bisiker's 'Rainbow Warrior'? PM me for more details if it is! |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST,Dylan O'Thomas Date: 10 Sep 06 - 01:21 PM Thanks for all the replies. I think it might be the Kevin Littlewood version that I'm trying to recall as I spent some time in south Wales. I have remembered some of the lyrics: "When you walk with the Rainbow Warrior, at one with the earth and the sky" |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: LesB Date: 10 Sep 06 - 02:27 PM The writer of the song is indeed Kevin Littlewood. A resident singer at our folk club, The Bothy Folk Club Southport, Lancashire. Kevin is also the writer of 'Women of Greenham', which was sung around the clubs a lot. Cheers Les |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST Date: 10 Sep 06 - 11:19 PM The group attempted to blockade the transfer of spent/exhausted nuclear fuel from ports in France. They recieved an inordinate media coverage.
The ship was sunk (by French forces????) in Austraila several years later.
France's electrical supply is 50% plus nuclear. They have worked diligently towards a "Green World."
The green-party should consider France an ally not a coamitiuer For a twisted liberal view of their ship consult: http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/rw/pkbomb.html |
Subject: Lyr Add: RAINBOW WARRIORS From: GUEST,Kevin Littlewood Date: 11 Sep 06 - 04:02 AM Dear Mudcat, Les B told me that there was a thread on a song which I wrote, so I am replying to "Dylan O'Thomas" et al. I wrote the song a good while back -- maybe over twenty years now -- when I was living in Cardiff, and active in the peace movement. I recorded it for SAIN records on an album of my own songs which was actually titled 'Rainbow Warriors'; just after it was released Greenpeace came out with a compilation of big names which was also called 'Rainbow Warriors'. There's plenty of scope for confusion here, as there are numerous songs with the same title, tho' I think mine was among the early ones. (There are also several Kevin Littlewoods, one of whom is, I believe, a folk singer in an Irish band called Dry Country; another works in academia, I think as a physicist; another KL was imprisoned for life for killing a member of his family, in Doncaster I believe! Well, none of those are me; but I am also the KL who co-wrote a book called 'Of Ships and Stars; Maritime heritage and the founding of the National Maritime Museum', which you can get on Amazon, and which is still available through the NMM). I wrote the song after reading a poem from the Native American tradition, called 'In beauty may I walk', the words of which were reproduced in the Rattle Bag anthology by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. In the end the song came out nothing like as lovely as the poem, but I kept the idea of walking, and I gave it a sort of muted war drum beat. The end of the chorus came from an epigram in a book by James Baldwin, which stuck in my mind, 'God sent Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time'. Not being a religious type, I can't give you chapter and verse for the story of Noah, but you'll get the idea as you read the words, printed below. It may seem a little 'wordy';it needs to be sung fairly forcefully, and that sort of copes with the internal rhymes, etc.. Sorry I can't supply a music file; you may be able to download it somewhere on the net. You can hear one of my new songs 'On Morecambe Bay' on a forthcoming album from the Bothy Folk Club; more on that from Les, I guess, in due course. Thanks very much for all the interest, I hope you enjoy the song. I think it still stands up, the world's problems haven't gone away. Best wishes, Kevin Littlewood Rainbow Warriors, 1. When the earth is sick and ailing, And the grass sings a sorrowful song, When the sand slips the glass Of the hours as they pass And your time does't seem very long. When the rivers dry in the mountains, And the sun sears the soil to its core Rise up from your knees like the waves rise up on the shore chorus Will you walk with the Rainbow Warriors At one with the earth and the sky? Will you learn how to bend Like the trees in the wind As a hurricane passes you by? Come and walk with the Rainbow Warriors, And watch for the peaceful sign? Hold fast to the rainbow Or it will be the fire next time. 2. There where the white fire flickers, Out in the midnight's glow Where the icebergs wheel And the blood of the seal Runs crimson across the snow. And where the Northern Lights lie lonely On the blubber of a big blue whale You will see them arrive With a flash of their rainbow sail. chorus Will you walk etc.,. 3. Out where the good grain glistens Where the white wheat waves in the wild They are planting guns Far away from the sun Down in the depths they are piled. And a harvest of hell will be harrowed, As up from the dark they ascend, Take a spade in your hands Go and dig where the rainbow ends chorus Will you walk etc Repeat last line and fade/ end PS You can vary the 'Will you walk'/ 'Come and walk' as you feel. |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Hrothgar Date: 11 Sep 06 - 05:39 AM There's another with a chorus that goes something like: My peace is green, My Rainbow she will fight for it, My peace is green, My Rainbow she will fight. I'll have to do some digging. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior is the only naval battle the French have won in over 200 years, Why do they bother having a Navy? |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: GUEST,Sarcastic Pedant Date: 11 Sep 06 - 09:34 AM Quote, Guest: "The ship was sunk (by French forces????) in Austraila several years later." Wasn't it in Auckland, New Zealand? (You know, those shakey little islands just off the Australian coast) |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: LesB Date: 12 Sep 06 - 09:00 AM refresh |
Subject: RE: Rainbow Warrior? From: Splott Man Date: 12 Sep 06 - 11:17 AM Blake's 3 (Hereford) did a song called Rainbow Warrior. I'll try and find out where they got it. |
Subject: Lyr Add: RAINBOW WARRIOR (Blake, Strawson) From: Splott Man Date: 18 Sep 06 - 04:07 AM Here it is: RAINBOW WARRIOR - Martin Blake/Rob Strawson. M.M.002 - "Crabs 'n' Chickens" M.M.005 - "Blakes III, A Selection" We heard the explosion at the waterfront Went running down to see A crowd had gathered at the waterfront And the tall strung mast lies broken on the quay. No-one could speak down at the waterfront Aahaah It took a tragic hour at the waterfront Before we believed that the well-found ship was down. Rainbow Warrior Take to the seas again, Rainbow Warrior Set your sails ahead for the wind and rain. There was a stranger at the waterfront He didn't seem a worried man Turned and walked away from the waterfront Counting dirty money, that could never come, from an honest hand! There'll be a light and smoke over Morarah The brightest this side of the sun But the light doesn't shine for you or me, It shines for the man on the other-side of the gun. Rainbow Warrior Take to the seas again, Rainbow Warrior Set your sails ahead for the wind and rain. Rainbow Warrior Take to the seas again, Rainbow Warrior Set your sails ahead for the wind and rain. ----- Thanks to my mate Tom Hems for the words. He's not a muso so I've no tune I'm afraid. Splott man |
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