Singing Colors

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this?

Pablo Picasso

The Color Song

Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Do the moves along with the song.

If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red
Then please shake your head
If you are wearing red, shake your head

If you are wearing blue, touch your shoe
If you are wearing blue, touch your shoe
If you are wearing blue,
Then please touch your shoe
If you are wearing blue, touch your shoe

If you are wearing green, bow to the queen
If you are wearing green, bow to the queen
If you are wearing green,
Then please bow to the queen
If you are wearing green, bow to the queen

If you are wearing yellow, shake like Jell-O
If you are wearing yellow, shake like Jell-O
If you are wearing yellow,
Then please shake like Jell-O
If you are wearing yellow, shake like Jell-O

If you are wearing black, pat your back
If you are wearing black, pat your back
If you are wearing black,
Then please pat your back
If you are wearing black, pat your back

If you are wearing brown, turn around
If you are wearing brown, turn around
If you are wearing brown,
Then please turn around
If you are wearing brown, turn around

RED
Tune: Are You Sleeping?
I like red,
I like red,
r-e-d,
r-e-d.
A fire truck is red.
A stop sign is red.
r-e-d
r-e-d.

PURPLE
Tune: This Old Man
P - U - R - P - L - E
Spells the color purple you see.
Like the grapes on a vine,
Or some plums in a tree.
P - U - R - P - L - E

BLUE
Tune: The Farmer in the Dell
B-l-u-e spells blue.
B-l-u-e spells blue.
Hi-ho did you know
B-l-u-e spells blue?
The big sky is blue.
The ocean is too.
Hi-ho did you know
B-l-u-e spells blue?

YELLOW
Tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Y-e-l -l-o-w spells yellow.
Y-e-l -l-o-w spells yellow.
Like the early morning the sun
When the day has just begun.
Y-e-l -l-o-w spells yellow.
Daffodils and baby ducks are yellow.
Lemonade and scrambled eggs are yellow.
I like the smiley face that’s yellow,
He is such a happy fellow.
Y-e-l -l-o-w spells yellow.

ORANGE
Tune: The Wheels on the Bus
O-r-a-n-g-e,
O-r-a-n-g-e,
O-r-a-n-g-e
Orange is what that spells.
Jack-O-lanterns are always orange
Carrots are always orange
Oranges are always orange.
O-r-a-n-g-e!

BLACK
Tune: Jingle Bells
Black bats fly,
Black cats cry,
b-l-a-c-k
Black is the color of the night
b-l-a-c-k
BLACK!

WHITE
Tune: Little Brown Jug
W-h-i-t-e
That spells white, sing with me.
Milk is white and so is glue,
Ghosts are white and they say
BOO!
W-h-i-t-e
That spells white, sing with me.
The clouds above, the snow below,
Santa’s beard
HO, HO, HO!

BROWN
Tune: Bingo
There is a color we all know.
Can you guess what it is?
B-r-o-w-n,
B-r-o-w-n,
B-r-o-w-n,
That’s how you spell brown.
Teddy bears and squirrels are brown,
Autumn leaves are too.
Chocolate candy is always brown.
Chocolate cake is always brown.
Chocolate milk is always brown.
I like brown, don’t you?

GREEN
Tune: Bingo
There was a farmer who had a snake
and it was very green.
g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n
and it was very green.
There was a farmer who had an alligator
and it was very green.
g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n
and it was very green.
There was a farmer who had a frog
and it was very green.
g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n
and it was very green.
They all lived in the long green grass
and they were very green.
g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n, g-r-e-e-n
and they were very green.

RAINBOW SONG
Tune: Hush, Little Baby
Rainbow purple
Rainbow blue
Rainbow green
And yellow too
Rainbow orange
Rainbow red
Rainbow shining over head.
Come and count
The colors with me
How many colors
Can you see?
1 - 2 - 3 on down to green
4 - 5 - 6 colors can be seen!
Rainbow purple
Rainbow blue
Rainbow green
And yellow too
Rainbow orange
Rainbow red
Rainbow shining over head.

OH RAINBOW
Tune: O Christmas Tree
Oh rainbow, oh rainbow,
How lovely are your colors.
Oh rainbow, oh rainbow,
How lovely are your colors.
Purple, red and orange, too,
Yellow, green and blue so true.
Oh rainbow, oh rainbow,
How lovely are your colors.

COLOR ME HAPPY
If I were the color blue,
I’d sing sad songs for you.
If I were the color yellow,
I’d be a happy fellow.
If I were the color red
I’d look like me when I bled.
If I were the color green,
I’d grow like a big string bean.
If I were the color brown,
I’d be a chocolate town.
If I were the color pink,
I’d be a lemony drink.
If I were the color purple,
Nothing would rhyme with me!

* * *
Wouldn’t it be terrible? Wouldn’t it be sad?
If just one single color was the color that we had?
If everything was purple? Or red? Or blue? Or green?
If yellow, pink, or orange was all that could be seen?
Can you just imagine how dull world would be
If just one single color was all we got to see?

ROY G. BIV SONG
Roy G. Biv is an odd name for a fellow.
But what his name means is
Red - Orange - Yellow
The G is for Green which as you may know,
Comes right in the middle of every rainbow.
Next, Blue and Indigo, more pale than dark.
Then V for Violet - And that completes the arc!

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower – and what is my experience if it is not the color?

Georgia O’Keeffe

Color Similes

as black as a skillet – very black

My hands were as black as a skillet when I finished working on the car engine.

as black as a stack of black cats – very black

The little boy was as black as a stack of black cats after playing outside all day.

as black as a sweep – very dirty/black (a chimney sweep cleans chimneys and becomes very black)

My friend was as black as a sweep after he finished cleaning the basement.

as black as coal – very black

My friend’s cat is as black as coal.

as black as night – very dark and black

The old house was as black as night when we entered it.

as black as pitch – very black

My face was as black as pitch after cleaning the stove all morning.

as black as the ace of spades – very black

The horse in the parade was as black as the ace of spades.

as red as a cherry – bright red

The car was as red as a cherry after its new paint job.

as red as a poppy – bright red

The mark on my arm was as red as a poppy.

as red as a rose – intensely red

The morning sunrise was as red as a rose.

as red as a ruby – deep red

The office assistant was wearing lipstick that was as red as a ruby.

as red as blood – deep red

The stain on the carpet was as red as blood.

as white as a ghost – very pale because of fear/shock/illness

My sister became as white as a ghost when she saw the man at the window.

as white as a sheet – very pale

I felt terrible this morning and in the mirror I looked as white as a sheet.

as white as the driven snow – very white

The fur on the dog was as white as the driven snow.