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Fancy Noah sailing in the Ark,
ploughing through the wind and rain and
dark;
all of a sudden, feel that bump,
landed safe on Ararat's
hump,
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, every creature too,
rainbow people, well what
a motley crew,
with a snow white dove to guide them,
and an olive leaf
their sign,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want a world of this and that,
mostly this, if that is
what they're at;
all God's plenty is our store,
open wide the old
Ark's door,
step into the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, bridging earth and sky,
rainbow people, God's
promise in their eye,
and a shining arch to point them
to the harmony
of all things,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want their world all black and white,
some folk like their
world just wrong or right,
we like colour, we like hue,
we like
me and we like you;
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, children of the light,
rainbow people,
declaring God's delight
in the multitudinous colours
of a mutlifarious
world,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Some folk want a world of wrath and flame,
we prefer the gentle
falling rain,
black clouds gather, still it shines,
pledge of
seed and harvest times,
welcome to the rainbow world.
Rainbow people, joyful, full of mirth,
rainbow people,
all colouring the earth
with the love and grace and laughter
of a
plenitudinous God,
rainbow people in a rainbow world.
Words and
music © Colin Gibson 1996
Permission is given to reproduce this material, with
acknowledgement,
for non-commercial use in a congregational or similar
setting.
Note: When a group from this parish travelled to Christchurch in November
1996 to attend the induction of the Revd Dr David Bromell as minister of the
Durham Street Methodist Church they took this song with them.
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