"Flowers Are Red" is a folk song written and sung by Harry Chapin, and recorded for his 1978 album Living Room Suite.
The idea for the song came to Chapin when his secretary told him about her son who brought his report card home from school one day.
The teacher had written a note in the card saying: "Your son is marching to the beat of a different drummer, but don't worry we will soon have him joining the parade by the end of the term.
The lyrics Harry Chapin wrote are similar to a poem by Helen E Buckley called "The Little Boy" originally published in the School Arts Magazine in 1961.
[2] [3] On Jerry Seinfeld's web series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, guest Sarah Jessica Parker relates that she and her siblings were the uncredited background singers for the child part of the song's chorus.