Colors

Songs that include the name of a color.

The Visible Light Spectrum

• Roy G. Biv - The colors of the rainbow, as listed below
• Waves - The visible light spectrum consists of waves

Red

• Always Be Giants - "I like the label. I like the red"
• Announcement A - "Scarlet fleece" , "Crimson ball"
• The Bloodmobile - "Red blood cells get oxygen" (See also White)
• The Bright Side - "On a red fire truck"
• The Devil Went Down To Newport - "He brought his red surfboard"
• Even Numbers - "Red, green, red, green, red" (See also Green)
• I'm A Little Airplane - "I got the little red lights"
• Mammal - "So the warm blood flows with the red blood cells"
• No! - "Red means stop / Do not go"
• Now I Know - "It's the red wire I see that now"
• Portable Trouble Spot - "Red hair and wavy"
• Push Back The Hands - "Unwelcome vision of rosy fingers"
• Red Red Intro
• Rowboat Mayor - "Floating across the roiling sea in our red solo cup"
• Santa's Beard - "Once a year my friend puts on a red suit"
• South Carolina - "The red reflector fragments strewn around"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "Nature's red in tooth and in claw"
• This Land Is Your Land - "From the redwood forests"
• Trucker's Coffee - "You might see a mirage or run a red light"
• Waves - "Long waves are red"
• Why Does The Sun Really Shine? - "The sun is no red dwarf"

Orange

• Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "Send a tangerine colored nuclear submarine"
• Distant Antenna - "Beyond the Orange mountains west of the city"
• Eight Hundred And Thirteen Mile Car Trip - "One spilt cup of orange juice"
• Erase - "I won't wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me"
• Flo Wheeler - "Orange barrels put me in a trance"
• It Never Fails - "Now she's wearing prison orange and her bathroom has no door"
• Oranges
• The Orange Peel
• Trucker's Coffee - "There was a Kenworth rig all done up in orange"

Yellow

• Best Of Spin The Dial - "I've got long blonde flowing hair"
• The Bright Side - "The figure "5" in 'gold"
• Cowtown - "The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned"
• The Famous Polka - "Her hair is blonde"
• Nanobots - "Raise the yellow bots up"
• Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Dream Medley - "I see your eyes a funny kind of yellow"
• Ponytail - "A cross between honey blond and golden brown"
• Robert Lowell - "Jaundice yellow it's really tan" (See also Blue and Brown)
• Rowboat Mayor - "Our gold doubloons lost in the spray are never floating up"
• 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)

Green

• Baroque Hoedown - "a large green hippo"
• Electric Car - "Electric car on verdant green"
• Even Numbers - "Red, green, red, green, red" (See also Red)
• He's Loco - "You don't wanna mess with the Green Avatar"
• I Am A Ring - "I am a ring that turns your finger green"
• In The Middle, In The Middle, 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"
• O Tannenbaum - "Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit"
• Seven - "It's the green house at the end of the block."
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Using a green magic marker"
• Thinking Machine - "Green grape gravy grateful grab"
• West Virginia - "Rhododendron, evergreen"
• You Probably Get That A Lot - "Or melting down some army guys to make green tea"

Blue

• Announcement A - "Prussian blue"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - "Blue Canary in the outlet by the lightswitch ... My name is Blue Canary ... Bluebird of friendliness"
• Blues In
• Columbia - Venue song for The Blue Note
• He's Loco - "You don't wanna mess with the Blue Avatar"
• Kitten Intro - "Put away your big blue cigars"
• Mrs. Bluebeard
• No One Knows My Plan - "Working on the tiny blueprint of the angle"
• Now I Know - "Now I know / Why they said not to cut the blue wire"
• Number Two - "Too long I've been blue because it's you that I'm missin'"
• Pencil Rain - "They're searching the yonder blue"
• Robert Lowell - "Blew their tops and beat him blue" (See also Yellow and Brown)
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way - "When forced to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea"
• What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?
• Yellow Submarine - "She had blue and velvet eyes" (See also Yellow)

Purple / Indigo / Violet

• 1999 - Cowtown Medley - "The sky was all purple... What's up purple!"
• Concrete And Clay - "I see the purple shades of evening"
• 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"
• Shape Shifter - "Is it that purple tentacle?"
• The Velvet Ape - "Who dares to hold the violet cape of The Velvet Ape?"
• Too Tall Girl - "Dressed in aubergine"

White

• All The Lazy Boyfriends - "And the weekly to-do list as white as the snow", and the song’s original name was "White Out "
• The Bloodmobile - "The white blood cells are soldiers" (See also Red)
• The Bright Side - "The bright side is just a white lie"
• Four Of Two - "I'd grown a beard / It was long and white"
• Gudetama's Busy Days - "Selling white flags at a discount"
• I Need Some Lovin' - "White teeth"
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) - "It's a white tornado!" (See also Brown)
• I've Got A Fang - "Glistening white triangular tooth"
• Long White Beard
• Or So I Have Read - "The reason clouds are white / Is that they're made out of bone"
• Turn Around - "And his face which was a paper-white mask of evil"
• Upside Down Frown - "Black is white, and the rainbow has a beard" (See also Black)
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Pair of white magician gloves"
• White Rabbit
• White Sport Coat - "A white sport coat"
• You Are Old, Father William - "Your hair has become very white"
• Youth Culture Killed My Dog - "But the hip hop and the white funk"

Gray

• 2082 - "Ashen features unmistakeably your own"
• The Guitar - "The silver spaceship"
• I Should Be Allowed To Think - "If necessary leave paper stains on the gray utility pole"
• It Said Something - "Dress them in silver"
• It's Not My Birthday - "When this gray world crumbles like a cake"
• McCafferty's Bib - "Now the gray, gray clouds have arrived..."
• Monsters Of Mud - "Shapeless, grimy, gray, and brown" (see also Brown)
• Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? - "When my hair has all turned gray"
• You Are Old, Father William - "As he shook his gray locks"

Black

• Answer - "The sky went black"
• Back In Black
• Best Regrets - "Under a pitch-black moonless sky"
• Black Ops
• Canada Haunts Me - "Because I have dreamed of black horses"
• Circular Karate Chop - "Dumping out my black backpack"
• The Edison Museum - "Through the iron bars I see the Black Mariah"
• Hillbilly Drummer Girl - "A black behemoth caddy"
• How Now Dark Cloud? - "All my black clothes"
• 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"
• Lullabye To Nightmares - "Have you ever heard the blackbird's song?"
• 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" (See also White)

Brown

• 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?"
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) (See also White)
• 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"
• Welcome To The Jungle (Dial-A-Song) - "Brown safari hat"

Pink

• Gudetama's Busy Days - "Down by the Pink Dot"
• Stormy Pinkness
• White Sport Coat - "A white sport coat and a pink carnation"
• Additionally, They Might Be Giants' debut album is commonly referred to as the Pink Album.

Color in General

• Announcement A - "Color in sky"
• 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 - by Colorwheel
• Definition Of Good - "Food that's colored wrong"
• Experimental Film - "The color of infinity"
• I've Been Seeing Things - "Different material, different color"
• Meet The Elements - "Like a box of paints that are mixed to make every shade"
• Or So I Have Read - "And did you know / That mixing things with milk will make it clear?"
• 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)
• Three Might Be Duende - "The Monochrome Martinet"