Listen to "Muppets: The Green Album"

     The Rainbow Connection instantly brings me back to elementary school music class.  Father Burns was an amazing music teacher.  He put on wonderful plays and musicals.  He schooled us on all of the hot new Broadway shows.  His blackboard was adorned with oodles of Playbills.  We learned about opera, classical music and instruments and we were young.  I appreciated it back then because I've loved music forever...but man do I appreciate it now.   I apologize for going off there for a second...it's just that I just heard that song and was right back there in those rows of metal folding chairs singing it all over again.  I loved it then.  I love it now. 
     The Muppet Show was a cherished part of childhood.  It's one of those precious memories of me and my folks in the kitchen.  I would sing the theme song out loud (I know, you can hardly believe it!) and we would wait and see who the guest was for that episode.  Through the years since we all make our Muppet references from time to time.  They are always there hiding in our psyche like they are offstage waiting for their time in the spotlight.  Will I be taking my own children to see the new Muppet movie...yep.  Will I hope to drag along a few "grown ups" to see it as well...you betcha. 
     Of course I remember the words but just in case you have forgotten them or are just too young to know the lyrics...here they are:

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

Who said that every wish would be heard
and answered when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us star gazing
and what do we think we might 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 called the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.
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.

Hmmmm....maybe it's one of the reasons I'm always searching.  Thanks Mickey for the idea!!!!