Colors

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Songs that sing the name of a color.

Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Standard tangerine colored nuclear submarine"
Trucker's Coffee - "There was a Kenworth rig all done up in orange"

Cowtown - "The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned"
Robert Lowell - "Jaundice yellow it's really tan" (See also Blue and Brown)
Wearing A Raincoat - "is flying around in a yellow rubber airplane made out of a raincoat"
When It Rains It Snows - "There's a face at the window, a smiling yellow face"
Yellow Submarine (See also Blue)

Baroque Hoedown - "a large green hippo"
Even Numbers - "Red, green, red, green, red" (See also Red)
In The Middle - "And wait and wait until you see the light turn green"
Maine - "Glazed with coniferous green"
Narrow Your Eyes - "Ride through the world / Through the green lights"
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Would it be okay with you if we wrote a reminder of things we'll forget to do today otherwise / Using a green magic marker if it's alright, on the back of your head?"
West Virginia - "Rhododendron, evergreen"

Birdhouse In Your Soul - "Blue Canary in the outlet by the lightswitch ... My name is Blue Canary ... Bluebird of friendliness"
Blues In
Kitten Intro - "Put away your big blue cigars"
No One Knows My Plan - "Working on the tiny blueprint of the angle"
Pencil Rain - "They're searching the yonder blue"
Robert Lowell - "Blew their tops and beat him blue" (See also Yellow and Brown)
Columbia - Venue song for The Blue Note
Fingertips #13 (What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?)
Yellow Submarine - "She had blue and velvet eyes" (See also Yellow)

Concrete And Clay - "I see the purple shades of evening"
Cowtown (1999 Medley) "The sky was all purple... What's up purple!"
I Enjoy Being A Boy "I live in a purple plum mansion" (See also Black)
Impossible - "If you wish you had violet hair"
Purple Toupee - "The purple brigade"

I Should Be Allowed To Think - "If necessary leave paper stains on the gray utility pole"
It's Not My Birthday - "When this gray world crumbles like a cake"
Monsters Of Mud - "Shapeless, grimy, gray, and brown" (see also Brown)

Canada Haunts Me - "Because I have dreamed of black horses"
The Edison Museum - "Through the iron bars I see the Black Mariah"
I Enjoy Being A Boy - "And the blackbirds make nest in my tree" (See also Purple)
Iowa - "Matching black dress"
Lie Still, Little Bottle - "Black coffee's not enough for me"
Purple Toupee - "I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks"
See The Constellation - "I was in the sky all dressed in black"
Upside Down Frown - "Black is white, and the rainbow has a beard"

The Famous Polka - "Her hair is blond, and mine is brown / They both start with a 'b'"
Get By With A Little Help - "Would you lend me a pair of your finest brown loafers?"
Monsters Of Mud - "Shapeless, grimy, gray, and brown" (see also Gray)
Ponytail - "A cross between honey blonde and golden brown"
Return To The Planet Of The Apes - "I call it toffee -- some would say tan" (See also Color)
Robert Lowell - "Jaundice yellow it's really tan" (See also Yellow and Blue)
She Thinks She's Edith Head - "Or Helen Gurley Brown"

Arkansas - "I was on the coast of Arkansas when I saw her colors from the shore"
Atlanta - "The music and the colored lights"
Birds Fly - "This colorful spell under which I live..."
Chaos By Design (Colorwheel) - by Colorwheel
Experimental Film - "The color of infinity"
Return To The Planet Of The Apes - "Tan is the color of a costume of an actor in a movie called Return to the Planet of the Apes..." (see also Brown)

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