Flowers Are Red

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Flowers Are Red is a song written and sang by Harry Chapin. The song was released on his 1978 album Living Room Suite.

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The song tells the story of a little boy who on the first day of school started drawing pictures of flowers using many different colors. The teacher tells him that he's coloring the flowers all wrong and that he should paint them red and green,"the way they always have been seen." The boy disagrees and continues to color them from his imagination until the teacher punishes him by standing him in a corner. Finally, the little boy gives in and tells the teacher that flowers are red, and green leaves are green. When he goes to a different school, he continues mechanically painting flowers red and green, to the dismay of his new, kind teacher.