What is a rainbow song?
At rainbow gatherings, many kinds of songs can be heard around the fire, so clarification is needed about what constitutes a “rainbow song”. I don’t claim to be the authority on the subject, but my sense is that the vast majority of people who attend rainbow gatherings would agree with what follows. Repeat until drunk Perhaps the main feature of rainbow songs is that their verses are repeated over and over again. Most rainbow songs are quite compact—sometimes as short as two verses. This gives everyone a chance to pick up the lyrics within the first two minutes of singing. The verses of a great song are repeated until everyone gets drunk on the energy of the group singing. Songs often build up until the voices reach a peak, after which the verses are repeated with a softer voice, often slower, until the song fades into yummy silence. English Another feature of rainbow songs, at least in the English-speaking world, is that their lyrics are either in the English language or a mixture of
