Chords for Harry Chapin: FLOWERS ARE RED 81

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[F] This next song is about education and first did it about a little over two years ago on the tonight show and I got more
cards and letters and [Am] hooky _ _
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_ [F] Forgive the [B] Pavlovian response of the band, but we've been
_ _ _ We've been on that show 20 times by now _ and we got more reaction to this one song than the other 19 times put together _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ It's it's it was it was triggered a little levity here folks _
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_ _ [G#] _ _ Come on _
_ The the _ song was triggered by a report card that my secretary's kid got _ wonderful 11 year old Huckabin type kid and _
_ _ Believe it or not.
This is what I said.
They have
_ _ _ Statements and report cards around here to write, you know, the right [B] little thing to teach you.
It's a comment catch this one
_ Your son is a real book _
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It's an educational term
_ _ Now this is what it is it said your son marked the beat of a different drummer comma, but don't worry
We'll have him joining the parade by the end of the term.
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Got pissed off.
That's an educational term and
_ Wrote the following song and the role of the teacher in [E] this version is played brilliantly by Big John and Uncle [C] Steve
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It's called flowers are red
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_ The little boy went first day of school he [A] got friends and started to draw _
He put [C#m] colors all over the paper [A] all colors was what I saw _
[F#] And the teacher said what you doing young man?
[B] I'm paint flowers.
He said
She [F#] said it's not the time for art young man
[B] And anyway, if [C] I was a green and red [C#m] there's a time for everything young [A] man
Way it should be done
_ [C#m] You got the joke concern for everyone else.
[A] Oh, you're not the [B] only one and she said
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_ [B] _ _ [E] _ By [B] the little boy said
_ _ [E] There is
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_ _ _ _ _ Way just said your sass and [A] there's ways that pain should be
_ [C#m] And you'll paint flowers the way they are
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Repeat after [B] me and she [E] said
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_ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [B] By the little boy said [F] again
_ _ [E] There are so [B] many colors in the rainbow _
So many [F#] colors in the morning [E] sun so many colors in the flower
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[E] And I [B] see _ everyone _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well
Teacher put him in a corner.
She [A] said it's for your own good
_ [C#m] And you won't come out did you get it right and I was [A] bonding like you should
_ [F#] Well, finally, he got a little left right [B] and thought
_ Fiddled his head _ and he [F#] went up to that teacher _ [A] and this is what [Em] he [B] said
_ _ _ _ and he said
_ _ [E] _ _ Flowers _ are red _ _ and _ [B] green leaves are green
_ _ [E] There's no need to see flowers any [A] other way [E] than the way they [B] _ [E] always have [A] been seen
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[C#m] _ Both _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
time went by like it always does
[A] And the _ _ _ _ [C#m] little boy went to another school [A] _
this is what he found
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The teacher [G#] there was smiling.
[B] She said eating should be fun
_ There [F#] is so many [C#] colors in the flower.
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So let's use _ [C#] everyone _ _
But that [C#m] little boy painted flowers and he [A] knows the green and red
[Em] _ [C#m] And when the teacher asked him why?
[A] _ And _ _ he [B] _ _ _ _ _
_ said [A#] _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Bm] flowers [E] are red _ [B] _
and [E] _ green [B] leaves are green
_ _ There's [E] no need to see flowers any other [A] way [E] than the way they [B] always have [A] been seen
_ _ But there still must be a way [B] to have our June say
_ [C#m] _ [E] There is so many [B] colors in the _ [B] rainbow
[E] So [F#] many colors in the morning sun [E] so [B] many colors [E] in the flower [A] I
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[F#m] _ _ [Em] Lead [G] guitar the legend keeps growing [D] the [Em] incredible Douglas hot [Am] legs Walker
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I just [E] _ string [G] section extraordinaire [C] _ Yvonne cable
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_ _ On drums our sex symbol the legend is diminishing but please scream anyhow [F] how a coal sticks feel _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ And of course [G#] you've already met him the dirtiest old man in the world I think by now big John Wallace on face [D] vocals and everything else
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_ [C] And [D] _ last but not least
_ My mother's favorite boy on keyboards our leader arranger class [C] coefficient [D] my brother is Steve Chapin
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