On the Road

There are many Rainbow songs that are known by the Rainbow family all over the world. Generally, they’re a little on the weak side lyrically but are a lot of fun when you sing them together in a loving atmosphere.
Here, though, we’ve included some songs of Tom Thumb, reflecting various perspectives on life among the hippies and in the Rainbow.

Hippy Rehab.
A E13 E13
When you’re feeling negative
A D13 E13
And you’ve run out of reasons to live,
A A7 D Dm
When your heart is blocked and your feelings are locked,
A E7 A
Get down to some hippy rehab

When your head is full of fears,
And you’re neither now nor here,
When you’re tearing out your hear and you’ve forgot how to share,
Get down to some hippy rehab.

E7 A
Oh, you’ll get bitten by bugs, You’ll get kisses and hugs, D13 E13
Walk everywhere barefeet and say Ommm before you eat

Oh, you can grow your dreads, do you birth chart,
Then go make your bed, out under the stars,

So grab your guitar,
And a bag full of marijuana,
And go with the flow down to the rainbow
And get some hippy rebab. (that’s rehabilitation!)
And get some hippy rehab.

Go to Babylon

Am (fast)
The Rainbow is where it’s at, I don’t doubt that
E7
But today I could do without,
Am
I’m sick of bhajans and shamans in trance
E7
And all the freaks are freaking me out,
G Am G Am
Pots of brown rice and falling headlice
E7 Am
Dropping out and turning on, Am E7 Am
Baby, let’s go jump in the van and go to Babylon

We could eat some meat, and watch some tv
And drink beer in a bar,
Then go to a club, dance to some dub
And take drugs that are design-ar,
I’ll act cool and I know that you’ll
Dress up like an atomic bomb,
Baby, go put your crystals away, we’re going to Babylon,

We can meditate another day,
Let’s go see how the city folks like,
Turn on the mobile, send some email,
Plug into the Matrix,
I’m sick of bug bites and candle light
And though the Rainbow is where we belong,
Baby, let’s take a break for a day, and go to Babylon.

Mexican Medicine (To the tune of Madonna’s La Isla Bonita)

Dm Am Dm
Last night I drank some San Pedro,
F C Am
The shaman made the tea, a holy ceremony,
Dm Am C Dm
All the way from Mexico, took me where I longed to go,
C Gm Dm
How I love that morning glow, te quiero San Pedro,
Dm Am C Dm
Mother Earth beneath our feet, and smoking holy leaves,
C Gm Dm
Magic in all that we see, a Mexican medicine,

A naked crowd in the sweat lodge,
Holy herbs to purify, open the door before I die,
Singing bhajans in the dark, songs to open the heart,
And trying hard not to fart, oh San Pedo,
The next day dying of heat, while everyone makes their speech,
And all I can think is when do I eat, a Mexican medicine,

F C Am
Oh, I want to feel like I did that night,
F G Gm
With the Great Spirit guiding us to the light,
F C Am
The magic that is in the cactus,
F G Gm
Helps us love the life and the life to love us,

And we ate paste of peyote,
Grandfather, oh abuelo, told us what we longed to know,
Froze my ass off through the night, then by the morning light,
We all got the feeling right, oh, Peyote!
4 spoons of cold, black guck, feeling strange in the gut,
And trying hard not to throw up, a Mexican medicine

Oh, last night we drank some San Pedro….

Beneficio Song (to the tune of Cheers)

G D
Living in the city can be quite shitty
G D
when all you want is some fresh air,
G D
Or maybe you’ve been on the road for too long
G D
And you want to rest somewhere,
Bm E A
There’s no rent in a tepee,
C D7
in Beneficio,

G F C
Where everyone walks with bare feet,
G F C
And they say Om before they eat,
Bm C
You want to go where you can see,
Bm C
people going with the flow,
Bm C
You want to go where the good
D7 G
Ganja grows,

When the reiki just aint working,
Maybe you lost your touch,
If you can’t remember your mantra
And the ganja costs too much,
Go where you can grow your own, In Beneficio,

Where everyone loves to get high,
And you can let your freak flags fly,
You want to go where people know,
The words to the bhajans,
You want to go where nobody,
Makes plans,

So if you want to make babies
Or grow marijuana,
Pregnancy and THC
Are the valley’s karma,
Up in the mountains of Spain, in Beneficio,

Where everyone walks with bare feet,
And they say Om before they eat,
You want to be where you can see,
People going with the flow,
You want to go, where the good ganja
Grows,

Want to meet other road junkies?
Come to the Road Junky Sahara Retreat Feb 6-11 2012 to hang out with 30 other travelers to meditate, make yoga, tell stories and dance under the full moon in the desert.

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