Volume 16 , Issue 6

My Rainbow Race

Pete Seeger's My Rainbow Race, written in 1970's, is one of my favorite songs that is still important and relevant today. It is an American folk, children's song, originally released by Pete Seeger on his album Rainbow Race in 1973.



Pete Seeger wrote My Rainbow Race as a children's folk song in 1973. The song was a hit in the Seventies in Norway and came to prominence there again in 2012 when it was sung by a crowd of more than 40,000 people as a protest against statements by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik.

My Rainbow Race

One blue sky above us
One ocean lapping all our shore
One earth so green and round
Who could ask for more
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.
Some folks want to be like an ostrich,
Bury their heads in the sand.
Some hope that plastic dreams
Can unclench all those greedy hands.
Some hope to take the easy way:
Poisons, bombs. They think we need 'em.
Don't you know you can't kill all the unbelievers?
There's no shortcut to freedom.
Go tell, go tell all the little children.
Tell all the mothers and fathers too.
Now's our last chance to learn to share
What's been given to me and you.
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