Margaret bowland painting the roses red lyrics

[ALL CARDS]
Bum bum bum bum
Painting the roses red
We're painting the roses red
We dare not stop or waste a drop
So let the paint be spread!
We're painting the roses red
We're painting the roses red!

Oh, Painting the roses red
And many a tear we shed

[THREE OF CLOVERS]
Because we know

[TWO & THREE OF CLOVERS]
They'll cease to grow

[ACE OF CLOVERS]
In fact they'll soon be dead!

[ALL CARDS]
And yet we go ahead
Painting the roses red!

Painting the roses red
We're painting the roses red!

[ALICE]
Oh, pardon me
But Mister Three
Why must you paint them red?

[THREE OF CLOVERS] (SPOKEN)
Well the fact is, miss
We planted the white roses by mistake!
And

[ALL CARDS]
The queen
She likes them red
If she saw white instead
She'd raise her voice
And each of us would quickly lose his head!

Since this is the thought we dread
We're painting the roses red!

[ALIC