CAREFULLY TAUGHT

You have got to be taught
To hate and fear
Day after day, year after year
It’s got to be drummed 
In your dear little ear
You've got to be taught to hate and fear

You have got to be taught
To be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin
Is a different shade
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid

You have got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six, or seven or eight
To hate all the people 
Your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught
You’ve got to be carefully taught



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From the Dennis Warner album “Pilot Me”
© Words & Music by Richard Rodgers
      and Oscar Hammerstein III
www.WarnerSongs.com