Lyrics to The Rainbow Connection

Original music and lyrics written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher

Adapted and arranged by Catherine Scholz, copyright 2024

Adapted lyrics:

Why are there so many songs about rainbows
and what’s on the other side?
Rainbows are visions and only illusions
and rainbows have nothing to hide

What’s so amazing that keeps us star gazing?
What do we think we might see?
Someday we’ll find it
the rainbow connection
the lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
when wished on the morning star?
Someday thought of that
and someone believed it
look what’s it’s done so far

And so we’ve been told and some choose to believe it
I know they’re wrong wait and see
Someday we’ll find it
the rainbow connection
the lovers, the dreamers and me

All of us under its spell
we know that it’s probably magic

Have you been half asleep
and have you heard voices?
I’ve heard them calling my name

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice be one and the same
And I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it
it’s something that I’m supposed to be

Someday we’ll find it
the rainbow connection
the lovers, the dreamers and me

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La da de de da do…