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The Crayon Song by Studio C

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Tuning: E A D G B E

Intro:

Gm C
 
Verse 1:
Gm                        F
Hello kids. I'm the color red
F
And I brought my friends to teach you about them
Gm
They're the colors of all the things
        C   F                                      C
You see and red is me, the color of awesome things like hearts, and roses, and mars
                     F
But most importantly blood, blood, blood, blood, blood
 
Gm F
 
Verse 2:
E
Hi. I'm orange like mac and cheese
                                          Gm
Let's name other orange things now if you please
Gm                            F
You got pumpkins, and tigers, and the desert sand
F
Prescription bottles and all your orange friends
F
La, la, la, la, la, la
F
Cheese (PILLS)
N.C.
What are you doing?
C                    Gm
What I was born to do

Verse 3:
Gm                         C
As you can probably guess, yellow's pretty fun
C
Jaundice
C
You can find it on a bus, or the rays from the sun
Gm
If you ask me—
Gm
Yellow's number one (Liver Failure)
C
If you like yellow and sour (Jaundice)
C          F
Then try a lemon
C
Jaundice
C      F
Dang it
 
Verse 4:
Gm
I once ate a bug that was the color green
Gm
But the e.r. said it was a poisonous thing
E                C
So that explains why I threw up green and
C
Inside that green there were chunks of green
F
I bet you wish you hadn't listened to green
 
N.C.
Why didn't you change that one?
 
N.C.             C
I like that verse
 
Verse 5:
F                    C
The ocean is a place where many creatures live
C
It's the deep blue sea
Gm
And it'll kill you to death
Gm                           F
Especially if you are on titanic, so let that sink in. pun intended
 
Verse 6:
N.C.                               C
Don't blow this for us man come on
F
Purple is the color of many pretty
C      F
Things from a lilac—
 
F Gm F C
 
Verse 7:
Gm              C
I guess it's my turn
C
There are brown things like dirt
C
I, uh, can't remember the words
Gm                F
Please don't hurt me
 
C
 
Verse 8:
Gm
White things include—
Gm
All broken bones
    F
And doves and paper and
F
And rabies' foam
Gm
There's ivory—
               F
Worth a lot of money, if you want to buy some then email me
 
F C
 
Verse 9:
 
Gm                    C
Black is the color of emptiness. I feel it in my
C                                 F C F
Soul 'cause I'm an emotional mess
F                               N.C.
Take care of the body shove him up a kid's
N.C.
Nose or something
 
C Gm
 
Verse 10:
 
Gm                         F
I'm the last crayon in the box you see
C             F         Gm             C
And the color that they assigned to me is this
N.C.
Just think about that for one moment