The Governor's Institiute on the Arts of Vermont does a big Fourth of July Parade every year
The set-up:
Waiting puppets and band
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The Overture:
The spectrum flags gather in the center of town to sing "Freedom is Coming" directed by Ron Kelly.
The Running Rainbow: They start off by color to make a street-sized rainbow.
They drop the flags and pick up the parade proper, and start back.
The Parade:
Horses (Red) of the Dawn............Suns (Orange) Rising
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Big (Yellow) Cats of Noon
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And the Band and Samba Dancers
(Green) Thoughts in a (Green) Afternoon Shade
The (Blue) Birds of Fleeting Light
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And Last, the (Purple) Dragons of the Night
"The Zipper"
The Color Marshall meets them in the center of town
She spreads her fan, splits the parade, and walks down it to the end.
She calls out the dragons, who follow her down the set...and on out.
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Followed by the Birds, followed by the Humans.....
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The Band, the Cats, the Suns, and finally the Horses,
And the parade continues on its way, going the same
direction, but with its order reversed.