Flowers Are Red

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FLOWERS ARE RED  HARRY CHAPIN




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The lit-tle boy went first day at the school

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He got some cray-ons and he star-ted to draw

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He out col-ours all o-ver the pa-per

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For co-lours was what he saw

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And the tea-cher said what ya do-in young man

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Im paint-in flo-wers he said she said

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Its not the time for art young man

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And a-ny-way flo-wers are green and red

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There’s a time for ev-‘ry-thing young man

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And the way it should be done

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You’ve got to show con-cern for ev-‘ry-one else

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For your not the on-ly one and she said

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Flo-wers are red young man 

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and green leaves are green

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there’s no need to see flo-wers a-ny o-ther

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way than the way they al-ways have been seen

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but the lit-tle boy said

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there are so man-y col-ours in the rain-bow
 
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so man-y col-ours in the morn-ing sun

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so man-y col-ours in a flo-wer

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and I see ev-‘ry-one

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the tea-cher out him in a cor-ner she said

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Its for your own good

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and you wont come out till you get it right

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and all res-pon-ding like you should

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well fin-ally he got lone-ly

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fright-tened thoughts filled his head

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and he went up to the tea-cher

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and this is what he said and he said

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flo-wers are red and green leaves are green

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there’s no need to see flo-wers a-ny o-ther way

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than the way they al-ways have been seen

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