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06 Jun 15 - 04:52 PM (#3714867) Subject: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Guest Hi Mudcatters You were very helpful when I last needed a song for a camp, French beautician to sing in the pantomime "Cinderella". Now I need something funny to sing that has a colour in the title for a concert! Please give it a thought - and thanks in advance Chris Peacock |
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06 Jun 15 - 05:39 PM (#3714870) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,just a-passin' through May The Bluebird Of Happiness Fly Up Your Nose |
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06 Jun 15 - 06:23 PM (#3714877) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Joe Offer John McCutcheon does one called The Red Corvette. |
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06 Jun 15 - 06:42 PM (#3714880) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Thompson Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. And it has the added advantage of a very singable chorus, with a nice "One-two-three-four, stick around, I'll tell you more" run up to it. |
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06 Jun 15 - 07:15 PM (#3714885) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Jack Campin Gogol Bordello's Start Wearing Purple. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_Wearing_Purple |
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06 Jun 15 - 10:00 PM (#3714899) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Joe Offer ...and "bikini" is a song that goes over with all audiences, as does Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater." |
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06 Jun 15 - 10:24 PM (#3714901) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Phil "Yaller Rose of Texas, You All" - Homer & Jethro "Bein' Green" - Kermit "The Little Brown Jug / The Old Gray Mare" - Vernon Dalhart twofer. |
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06 Jun 15 - 11:22 PM (#3714910) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Howard Kaplan The Little Blue Man Flying Purple People Eater Yellow Submarine |
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07 Jun 15 - 01:20 AM (#3714920) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,HiLo Little Red Rented Rowboat ! |
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07 Jun 15 - 01:43 AM (#3714924) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: MGM·Lion The Red Flag? |
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07 Jun 15 - 03:17 AM (#3714940) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST, Little white bull (if white counts as a colour) |
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07 Jun 15 - 03:30 PM (#3715095) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: cnd Well, sort of. Doc Watson's "Brown's Ferry Blues" has both brown and blue in the title, but doesn't revolve around the colors. Additionally, it has some funny little quips about life. "The Green Door," while not really a folk song, is about a green door. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (also not a folk song, really) is a song sung happily by the Beatles about a triple homicide. With a hammer. Panama Red is perhaps the best song I've offered yet. A country-rock song by NRPS. Summertime Blues is another song like Brown's Ferry Blues. But it's rockabilly. White Lightning, by George Jones, can be funny in some parts. That's it. |
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07 Jun 15 - 03:55 PM (#3715098) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: fat B****rd "She Wears Red Feathers And a Huly Huly Skirt" "Tan Shoes And Pink Shoelaces" |
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07 Jun 15 - 11:31 PM (#3715140) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Bert Lily the pink. |
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08 Jun 15 - 08:15 AM (#3715174) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Leadfingers I had a dog , his name was Green , weirdest dog I ever seen Green he had a greenish skin , four webbed feet and a dorsal fin ! Cant remember where I got that , OR the rest of the song ! |
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08 Jun 15 - 09:10 AM (#3715199) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST, topsie Brown boots |
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08 Jun 15 - 10:04 AM (#3715214) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Phil A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean |
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08 Jun 15 - 01:32 PM (#3715275) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST, topsie Little Boxes ... There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one ... |
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09 Jun 15 - 03:15 AM (#3715382) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Bert Brown Boots! That's an old one topsie. |
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09 Jun 15 - 06:24 AM (#3715432) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: MGM·Lion "Brown Boots" is also, surely, not a song but a monologue by Weston & Lee, notably performed by Stanley Holloway -- or is there also a song of that name unknown to me? & tho Little Boxes lists colours of the eponymous artefacts, they do not occur in the title, as specified in the thread-subject. ≈M≈ |
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09 Jun 15 - 07:19 AM (#3715445) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST, topsie MGM, you are right about the title of Little Boxes not containing the colours, but if the point is to get an audience to sing about colours it could be a contender. I first came across Brown Boots as sung/performed by the wonderful Cosmotheka. |
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09 Jun 15 - 07:23 AM (#3715447) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST, topsie Brown Girl in the Ring |
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10 Jun 15 - 04:30 AM (#3715711) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Mr Red I once wrote a song called the "Vomit Blues". Performed it with a bucket that bore the message "For the Sick". |
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10 Jun 15 - 10:34 AM (#3715807) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Doug Chadwick You're a pink toothbrush. I'm a blue toothbrush. DC |
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10 Jun 15 - 11:11 AM (#3715814) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Doug Chadwick Green and Yella DC |
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10 Jun 15 - 05:00 PM (#3715875) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,CupOfTea, No cookies Peter, Paul & Mary's "I'm in love with a big blue frog" "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" "Scarlet Ribbons" or better still, Artisan's parody "Scarlet Raygun" |
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10 Jun 15 - 08:36 PM (#3715926) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Gerry Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal, http://dmdb.org/lyrics/sherman.folksinger.html#3 |
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10 Jun 15 - 08:38 PM (#3715927) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Gerry Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue. http://dmdb.org/lyrics/sherman.nut.html#11 |
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10 Jun 15 - 08:39 PM (#3715928) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Gerry Is gray a color? When You Are Old And Gray, http://dmdb.org/lyrics/lehrer.revisited.html#10 |
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11 Jun 15 - 11:51 AM (#3716039) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: MGM·Lion The Brown And The Yellow Ale -- which some singer once misheard as The Brown & Yellow Earl, & wrote a wonderfully point-missing sleevenote about the historical and heraldic & symbolic significance of the colours in the supposed earl's escutcheon. It is in fact a mock-pathetic song about a man with an unfaithful wife, ending with the IMO charming last verse If it wasn't that my own dear mother was a woman (Oh the brown and the yellow ale) I could tell you many more fine songs about the women (Oh oh love of my heart) The ales which form the ongoing burden being presumably intended for him to drown his cuckolded sorrows in! Good versions on youtube by Luke Kelly & Dominic Behan. n fact, I find that is the version which has mistakenly got into the DT, together with that absurd note It isn't right [listen to those versions I cite above], and should be emended. ≈M≈ |
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04 Oct 20 - 10:18 AM (#4074274) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Stilly River Sage Nice to see a discussion that includes the late MGM Lion. |
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04 Oct 20 - 05:39 PM (#4074322) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle Strumming on me Pink Ukulele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd1ZuBnuJek or The Big Red Sausage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JzEun8C4tA&t=123s |
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04 Oct 20 - 06:31 PM (#4074329) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Mrrzy Greeeeeen and yellow Mother be quick I gotta be sick and laybe down to die Pete Seeger's children's version of Lord Randall. The Clancy's The red and the green and the yellow... But that is not the title. |
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13 Oct 20 - 09:20 AM (#4075377) Subject: Re: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: GUEST,Peanut Queen Since the original poster mentioned Cinderella, when I was a child, we used to do a chant while jumping rope that went "Cinderella, dressed in yella, went downtown to catch a fella" with the subsequent verses improvised by the kid shouting it out. Anyway, as far as songs with colors in the title, I don't think anybody has mentioned "Blue Suede Shoes" ... "Crimson and Clover" ... "Green Tambourine" ... "Purple Haze" ... or "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Harlem Globetrotters classic theme song). |
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13 Oct 20 - 12:46 PM (#4075404) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Bill D I heard this many years ago at a house concert by Roy Harris. He used it as a kind of "Get your attention song" to open a concert. When he stopped traveling over here, I adopted it. The only title I know it as is the same as the chorus: It is half sung, half bellowed "There was an old woman, she kept fat hogs, She made plum puddings-they poisoned the dogs, They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho: "Black, white, yellow and green, The rarest plum puddings you ever have seen. The were black, white, yellow and green. She took them a threw them into a pot, And boiled them till they were steaming hot, They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho:"Black, white, yellow and green, The rarest plum puddings you ever have seen. They were black, while, yellow and green. She baked them till they were blazing red, The one was like leather, the other like lead. They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho. She took out a pin and pricked their skins, The gravy ran out and the maggots ran in. They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho: She took them a put them down on the floor, Each took to its feet and ran out of the door. They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho: She took them and put them up on a shelf... If you want any more, you can sing it yourself! (or "help yourself) They were black, white, yellow and green. Cho:Black, white, yellow and green, The rarest plum puddings you ever have seen. The were black, white, yellow and greeeeenn! Here is a link, but I'll guarantee the tune Roy used was not that 'tinkley'. https://www.8notes.com/scores/3605.asp |
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13 Oct 20 - 02:36 PM (#4075413) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Bill D I didn't look far enough.. this is much closer to the tune,, http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBLWHYGR%3bttBLWHYGR.html |
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13 Oct 20 - 06:44 PM (#4075438) Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title From: Tattie Bogle The Orange and the Green (It is the big mix-up that you have ever seen) I can sing a rainbow |