Odradek tries to remember all of the colors of the horses of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Odradek

THE LEADING HORSE IS WHITE

THE SECOND HORSE IS RED

THE THIRD ONE IS A BLACK

THE LAST ONE IS A GREEN

THE LEADING HORSE IS WHITE

THE SECOND HORSE IS RED

THE THIRD ONE IS A BLACK

THE LAST ONE IS A GREEN

glennmagusharvey

Okay, I'm actually curious now, where specifically are these stated this way, with articles for only the latter two horses?

Calica

If you Google "the leading horse is white" you'll find the song this is from (it's actually cream but the singer is Greek and it sounds like green)

SF_Sorrow

Wikipedia said:

The colour of Death's horse is written as khlōmos (χλωμός) in the original Koine Greek, which can mean either green/greenish-yellow or pale/pallid. The colour is often translated as 'pale', though 'ashen', 'pale green', and 'yellowish green' are other possible interpretations (the Greek word is the root of 'chlorophyll' and 'chlorine'). Based on uses of the word in ancient Greek medical literature, several scholars suggest that the colour reflects the sickly pallor of a corpse. In some modern artistic depictions, the horse is distinctly green.

again, they're being p literalist in their lyrics there