Funny songs with a colour in the title

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 06:44 PM

The Orange and the Green (It is the big mix-up that you have ever seen)

I can sing a rainbow

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 02:36 PM

I didn't look far enough.. this is much closer to the tune,,
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBLWHYGR%3bttBLWHYGR.html

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Bill D
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 12:46 PM

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

Subject: Re: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Peanut Queen
Date: 13 Oct 20 - 09:20 AM

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).

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 06:31 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 05:39 PM

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

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Oct 20 - 10:18 AM

Nice to see a discussion that includes the late MGM Lion.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 11 Jun 15 - 11:51 AM

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≈

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 08:39 PM

Is gray a color? When You Are Old And Gray, http://dmdb.org/lyrics/lehrer.revisited.html#10

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 08:38 PM

Eight Foot Two, Solid Blue. http://dmdb.org/lyrics/sherman.nut.html#11

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 08:36 PM

Sir Greenbaum's Madrigal, http://dmdb.org/lyrics/sherman.folksinger.html#3

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,CupOfTea, No cookies
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 05:00 PM

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"

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 11:11 AM

Green and Yella

DC

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 10:34 AM

You're a pink toothbrush. I'm a blue toothbrush.

DC

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Jun 15 - 04:30 AM

I once wrote a song called the "Vomit Blues".
Performed it with a bucket that bore the message "For the Sick".

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:23 AM

Brown Girl in the Ring

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 07:19 AM

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.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 06:24 AM

"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≈

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Bert
Date: 09 Jun 15 - 03:15 AM

Brown Boots! That's an old one topsie.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 08 Jun 15 - 01:32 PM

Little Boxes ... There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one ...

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 08 Jun 15 - 10:04 AM

A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 08 Jun 15 - 09:10 AM

Brown boots

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jun 15 - 08:15 AM

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 !

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Bert
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 11:31 PM

Lily the pink.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 03:55 PM

"She Wears Red Feathers And a Huly Huly Skirt"
"Tan Shoes And Pink Shoelaces"

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: cnd
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 03:30 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 03:17 AM

Little white bull (if white counts as a colour)

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 01:43 AM

The Red Flag?

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 07 Jun 15 - 01:20 AM

Little Red Rented Rowboat !

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Howard Kaplan
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 11:22 PM

The Little Blue Man
Flying Purple People Eater
Yellow Submarine

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Phil
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 10:24 PM

"Yaller Rose of Texas, You All" - Homer & Jethro

"Bein' Green" - Kermit

"The Little Brown Jug / The Old Gray Mare" - Vernon Dalhart twofer.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 10:00 PM

...and "bikini" is a song that goes over with all audiences, as does Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater."

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 07:15 PM

Gogol Bordello's Start Wearing Purple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_Wearing_Purple

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Thompson
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 06:42 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 06:23 PM

John McCutcheon does one called The Red Corvette.

Subject: RE: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,just a-passin' through
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 05:39 PM

May The Bluebird Of Happiness Fly Up Your Nose

Subject: Funny songs with a colour in the title
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 06 Jun 15 - 04:52 PM

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