The Rainbow Song

I'm sure people are familiar with the Mandela effect?

If not it basically where people remember things differently than they are in the present dimension.

Which brings me to the title of my thread.

I have a young daughter which is how i stumbled across this subject. I'm sure we all know the song "red and yellow and pink and green"

What comes next?

As far as i knew it was "orange and purple and blue"

Except it isn't! It's "purple and orange and blue'

I asked 15-20 people, family, friends and work colleagues how they remembered it and they all said the former rather than the latter.

So looking for an obvious answer i just thought maybe "they" had updated it and this was the new version.

So i youtubed some videos from the 1970s with this song and they were all the "purple and orange and blue" version!

What's going on here - do people remember this version, or the version i remember?

a reply to: I know it all...

What's everyone's opinion? Surely everyone knows this song so what do people remember?

a reply to: I know it all...

I remember...
"Orange and Purple and Blue"

originally posted by: Gordi The Drummer
a reply to: I know it all...

I remember...
"Orange and Purple and Blue"

^^^
Thank you replying. Everyone must know this song so I really don't know why there seems to be so little response to the thread.

If everyone knows the song to be as it is now please respond and say-so.

That way I can put this down to faulty memory by me and my circle of friends / family and move on.

C'mon people - chip in

The intro

"Red/Yellow/Pink/Green" is also incorrect.
Not just
"Orange/Purple/Blue"

At the end.

Maybe you are from another universe, only Red and Green was in the correct spot.


Listen, Pink doesn't belong in the Rainbow, but after Yellow? Really?

Can you source it? Do you understand how many already different children rainbow songs there are?

I've never heard of this song.... The only rainbow song I know is
ROY G BIV
Red Orange Yellow, Green! Blue, Indigo, Violet!

So maybe you ARE from another dimension....

I hope you will get some more responses.


-Alee

Who wrote the song....? Ask him/her

Red and yellow and pink and green,
Purple and orange and blue,
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too!

Listen to your heart,
Listen to your heart,
And sing everything you feel,
I can sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow,
Sing a rainbow too

originally posted by: olaru12
Who wrote the song....? Ask him/her

Lyrics by Delta Goodrem

The song is called "I can sing a rainbow".

I love how in this video they have corrected the order of the colours (sort of)!





Oh - I remember it correctly!

a reply to: Annee

a reply to: NerdGoddess



Well then there's no clear logic guessing if it's based on an actual order of the rainbow.

However, based on the pastern it's filling them in with, to me Purple/Orange/Blue looks like it would be more correct keeping the jump around theme. Specifically from Orange to Blue visually looks better than if Purple to Blue.

My guess is, everyone knows the song ends on blue, but the actual order of the rainbow is making people subconsciously place Orange before Purple.

a reply to: I know it all...

That is freaky , in my Dimension this is the Rainbow song...

Orange and purple and blue

originally posted by: MacK80

Well then there's no clear logic guessing if it's based on an actual order of the rainbow.

However, based on the pastern it's filling them in with, to me Purple/Orange/Blue looks like it would be more correct keeping the jump around theme. Specifically from Orange to Blue visually looks better than if Purple to Blue.

Seriously? On the spectrum much?

It's meant for toddlers!!! Next you're gonna claim they should include infra-red!

originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: I know it all...

That is freaky , in my Dimension this is the Rainbow song...

I deliberately didn't go there!!! Does that tune make you wanna dance? It does me!

a reply to: MarsIsRed

a reply to: MarsIsRed

Watch the video.

Clearly each color is filled in 'jumping' to another not directly adjacent.

OP remembers two colors that make a single length jump.

Not only am I going to claim this is misremembered, there is proof of others singing it both ways like posted above, that is not how mandella works. My explanation for this is in my previous post.

I'm with Kermit the Frog on this one...

"Why are there so many
songs about rainbows?"

a reply to: Soylent Green Is People

Subversive fear of floods and water.

Kermit's just being disrespectful because he know's he'll be fine as a frog.

From en.wikipedia.org...

"I Can Sing a Rainbow," also known as "Sing a Rainbow," is a popular song written by Arthur Hamilton...

The British pop singer Cilla Black recorded the song for her 1966 studio album Cilla Sings a Rainbow; the album title and cover sleeve were both inspired by the song. She swapped purple and orange round and that is the way most people learn it.

So it's not the Mandela effect - just Cilla Black getting it wrong!