Red Of Course!

RUBY TUESDAY

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RED OF COURSE!

Without having any concrete proof

I'm pretty sure that, painting a roof,

You'd paint it bright and showy red;

Not some other hue instead.

A house that's painted by a child,

And by imagination styled,

Will always be a scarlet shade,

For, after all that's how roofs are made.

I wonder who began the craze

Which certainly wasn't just a phase,

For, after all, as years go by,

We still see them pointing to the sky.

Sometimes we'll see a black or blue

Atop a house that's very new

But, on the whole, it must be said

That a roof is nearly always red. 

Maybe the tiles that first were laid

Were of the local clay-pits shade

And, after a while, the people said

'A roof? Of course it must be red.'

Van Gogh, Cezanne, they all agreed

'A bright red roof is what we need.'

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OASIS

This could be your average shopping-street

But they've turned it into a glade,

Where people can stroll or sit and rest

In the generous green-leaved shade.

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