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7	->''"It was red and yellow and green and brown\
8	And scarlet and black and ochre and peach\
9	And ruby and olive and violet and fawn\
10	And lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve\
11	And cream and crimson and silver and rose\
12	And azure and lemon and russet and grey\
13	And purple and white and pink and orange\
14	And red and yellow and green and brown and blue!"''
15	-->-- '''Company''', ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'': "Joseph's Coat"
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17	A song which names many different colors.
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19	This often serves as a cheap excuse for MoodLighting: for instance, when the singer sings that he's blue, he is surrounded by a blue spotlight or camera filter. Compare SongOfManyEmotions, which is this but with emotions instead. Often overlaps with ListSong.
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21	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Fan Works]]
25	* In ''Fanfic/PrettyCureMagicOfTheRainbow'', the [[Literature/RainbowMagic Rainbow Fairies]] team up with the Anime/PrettyCure to sing a song that summons a rainbow at the end of the chapter, which describes the seven colours and pairs up a fairy with a Cure who has the same theme colour; Ruby and [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Towa]] represent red, Amber and [[Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure Tsubasa]] represent orange, Saffron and [[Anime/SuitePrettyCure Ako]] represent yellow, Fern and [[Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Komachi]] represent green, Sky and [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Hime]] represent blue, Izzy and [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Yuri]] represent indigo, and Heather and [[Anime/HugttoPrettyCure Ruru]] represent violet. At the end, [[Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure Hikaru]] and Melodie randomly appear to give an extra shout out to pink.
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28	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
29	%%* ''Film/PeteKellysBlues'': "Sing a Rainbow".
30	* ''Theatre/SouthPacific'': While the songs themselves don't mention colors in any extreme way ("Nothing Like a Dame" does have the line "We feel restless, we feel blue", but that's about it), the film makes the rather odd decision to gel the ''camera'' during the musical numbers. When the sky suddenly turns pink, you know there's a song coming up.
31	[[/folder]]
32
33	[[folder:Music]]
34	%%* Music/TheBeatles: "All Together Now", from ''Music/YellowSubmarine''.
35	* Music/PetulaClark: "Color My World" cites multiple colors in the environment: yellow sunshine, green grass, blue sky, as a metaphor for how her lover brightens up her world.
36	* Music/{{Donovan}}: "Colours"
37	-->Yellow is the color of my true love's hair
38	-->In the morning, when we rise
39	-->In the morning, when we rise
40	-->That's the time, that's the time
41	-->I love the best
42
43	-->Blue is the color of the sky....
44
45	-->Green's the color of the sparkling corn...
46	* Music/{{Enya}}: The chorus to "White is in the Winter Night" describes the various colors of Christmas night -- green in the mistletoe, red in the holly, silver in the stars, gold in the candlelight, crimson in fire embers, and white in the night itself.
47	%%* Music/{{Grouplove}}: "Colours".
48	%%* Music/JimiHendrix: "Bold as Love" from ''Music/AxisBoldAsLove''.
49	%%* Music/LemonDemon: "Ode to Crayola"
50	%%* Music/{{Mika}}: "Grace Kelly", at least in its chorus.
51	%%* Music/TomMilsom: "Indigo".
52	%%* Music/{{MLTR}}: "Paint my Love".
53	%%* Creator/MontyPython: "(I Like) Traffic Lights" from ''Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album''.
54	%%* Music/OwlCity: "Technicolor Phase".
55	* Music/DollyParton: "Music/CoatOfManyColors", about a coat made out of colorful rags that Dolly's mother gave to her.
56	%%* Music/{{Petra}}: "The Coloring Song".
57	%%* Music/PortugalTheMan: "Purple, Yellow, Red and Blue".
58	* Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}: Inversion with "Paint it Black". Only a handful of other colors are mentioned, namely red, green and blue, and the singer wants everything to become black as he mourns the passing of his lover.
59	%%* Music/SClub7: "The Color Of Blue".
60	%%* Music/PharoahSanders: "Colors".
61	%%* Music/JackShaindlin: "I'm Tickled Pink", mostly notable for appearing in ''VideoGame/Fallout3''.
62	%%* Music/SmileDK: "Butterfly".
63	%%* Music/{{Songdrops}}: "The Colour Song".
64	* Music/TheStupendium: "Room For Improvement" has a verse made entirely of paint colors.
65	-->We got Eggshell, Beige
66	-->Ecru, Sage
67	-->Hessian and Sesame and Peppermint Rage
68	-->Indigo Dingo, Elephant Plague
69	-->Hot Dog Embargo and Lemon Rampage
70	-->Baby Blue
71	-->Navy Blue
72	-->Gravy Blue
73	-->[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Maybe Blue]]
74	-->Grape and Rhubarbecue
75	-->Caribou Cabin Crew
76	-->Third Degree Verdigris
77	-->Turtle Infirmary
78	-->Phlurple
79	-->And Curdle
80	-->And Terminal Burgundy
81	-->And -- oh...white? Y-you'd prefer white?
82	-->Okay, whatever, white's fine too...
83	-->I'm not hurt or anything...just a bit emulsional...
84	* Music/TaylorSwift:
85	** "Red" describes her [[SongOfManyEmotions many feelings]] as colors.
86	-->Losing him was ''blue'' like I'd never known\
87	Missing him was dark ''grey'' all alone\
88	Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you never met\
89	But loving him was ''red''
90
91	** "Maroon" later describes how her feelings darkened since "Red", expressed through shades of dark red.
92	-->The ''burgundy'' on my T-shirt when you splashed your ''wine'' into me\
93	And how the ''blood'' rushed into my cheeks, so ''scarlet'', it was\
94	The mark you saw on my collarbone, the ''rust'' that grew between telephones\
95	The lips I used to call home, so ''scarlet'', it was ''maroon''
96	%%* Music/TheyMightBeGiants: "Roy G. Biv".
97	* Music/UnderworldBand: The outro to "Juanita: Kiteless: To Dream of Love" is a recording of singer Karl Hyde (sped up to make his voice high-pitched) as he lists the colors of cars passing by over and over until the track fades out.
98	* Numerous children's songs will be this.
99	-->Red and yellow and pink and green
100	-->Purple and orange and blue
101	-->I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow
102	-->Sing a rainbow too.
103
104	-->Jesus loves the little children
105	-->All the little children of the world
106	-->Red and yellow, black and white
107	-->They are precious in his sight
108	-->Jesus loves the little children of the world
109	* Verse three of Music/TheBeatles' "All Together Now":
110	-->Black, white, green, red\
111	Can I take my friend to bed?\
112	Pink, brown, yellow, orange and blue\
113	I love you
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116	[[folder:Theatre]]
117	* ''Theatre/{{Barnum}}'': "The Colors of My Life", sung by the titular character and then as a DarkReprise by his wife, who prefers more mundane colors.
118	%%* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}'': "Rainbow High".
119	%%* ''Theatre/GoldenBoy'': "Colorful".
120	%%* ''Theatre/{{Hair}}'': "Walking in Space".
121	* ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'': "Coat of Many Colors" describes the many colors of Joseph's coat [[note]]Red, yellow, green, brown, scarlet, black, ochre, peach, ruby, olive, violet, fawn, lilac, gold, chocolate, mauve, cream, crimson, silver, rose, azure, lemon, russet, grey, purple, white, pink, orange, and blue[[/note]].
122	* ''Theatre/LesMiserables'': "Red and Black", about how these two colors have [[ColorMotif different meanings for Enjolras and Marius]].
123	* ''Theatre/OrdinaryDays'': "Rooftop Duet/Falling" is partly about all the colors that can be seen in the hundreds of flyers that Warren made.
124	%%* ''Theatre/PalJoey'': "That Terrific Rainbow".
125	%%* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': "Masquerade".
126	%%* ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'': "Color and Light".
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129	[[folder:Video Games]]
130	* ''Colors'' from ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' and ''VideoGame/BeatManiaIIDX'' While the chorus and the bridge focus primarily on blue, the verse mentions red, orange, green and yellow.
131	-->''Red is with a twist\
132	Orange is the fire\
133	Green of tourmaline\
134	Mellow yellow, hello, hello.''
135	* ''VideoGame/TheIdolmaster'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clvOYaTjhVg Colorful Days]]", complete with ColorCodedForYourConvenience.
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137
138	[[folder:Western Animation]]
139	* ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' has the "Colors, Colors, Everywhere" song from the episode "Colors Everywhere!" In it, Joe sings about various colors, including how colors can be mixed and mixed again to make new colors, including ones he's never seen before, i.e. "Chartreuse, a color I had not seen. Looks to me like a yellowish-green. Mix blue and yellow and they're suddenly green. Then blue and green make aquarmine." This song was later redone for the remake version of the episode in ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou''.
140	* ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' has the song "A Color Just Right" from "The Crayon Prix!", as Molly sings about the various colors and what they are used for. The same episode also has "What Colors Mean", a dancing song led by Goby about the meaning of colors such as green for go and red for stop.
141	%%* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'': "A Richer Shade of Blue" and "The Crayon Song".
142	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In the pilot, Gosalyn sings a lullabye her grandfather taught her to Darkwing since he doesn't know any, which is mostly singing random colors that exist in the rainbow in a seemingly random and redundant order. That is until Darkwing notices that her grandfather's Zero Point interface cannon has a color coded keyboard.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' gives us the song "De Colores" from "The Shy Rainbow".
144	%%* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePony'': "Pink, the sunrise is pink, and so is a rose, a buttercup glows all yellowy..."%%Needs specific cartoon, title of song.
145	* ''Creator/NickJr Sings'' had the "Colors" song, which was released on the album ''Dance and Sing with Nick Jr.'' It features a young girl singing about the various colors - "Yellow sunshine, turquoise sea, purple mountains' majesty."
146	* ''Series/WaltDisneyPresents'': "The Green with Envy Blues" and "The Spectrum Song" from Disney's ''The Wonderful World of Color''. The version of the Spectrum Song featured on ''Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color'' features an additional bit:
147	-->'''Ludwig Von Drake:''' Now, alright, we know that everybody don't have television sets with color, so... we're gonna do a version for them, we don't want you to feel left out of it. Here's for you...\
148	''Black black gray white gray gray gray white white white gray gray white, black.''\
149	''Black black gray white gray gray gray white white gray gray gray black, black.''\
150	Alright, now you're happy? You don't feel left out? Now I wanna get back to my song.
151	[[/folder]]

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