Rodgers And Hammerstein – You've Got To Be Carefully Taught lyrics

Rodgers And Hammerstein – You've Got To Be Carefully Taught lyrics

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You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've 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

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Truthisall 2015-03-09 18:00:15

I have long admired Rodgers and Hammerstein for their convictions, standing up to the bigots and haters among us, who would make less of "others" to make more of themselves. They only told the TRUTH when they wrote the music and lyrics to "You've got to be Carefully taught". Even today, 66 years after that first performance, the music and lyrics of the song ring true, and should remind that there is still lots of work to do to bring equality to ALL Americans. And indeed, to many people world wide. Inequality maks all of us poorer, not richer.

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Unregistered 2023-03-11 14:52:32

I often say that everything I needed to know I learned from Rodgers and Hammerstein, When there is a racial shooting, I sing You've got to be carefully taught. I can't tell you how many times I sang You'll never walk alone during the pandemic, and again after my husband shot himself. Whenever I think of WWII, I think of Oscar Hammerstein seeing the newsreals of the German tanks in Paris and writing the last time I saw Paris. When I got married, I thought of Something Wonderful and A fellow needs a girl. They have been a part of my life since I was a little girl.

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Unregistered 2021-10-09 17:54:29

The left is hiding CRT as “Ethnic Training”. The under-educated applaud this garbage as ok because they don't know any better - just that fogginess from the lame streams. This song says it all. Train them to hate at a young age ….. what could go wrong with that? Wake up America as you are loosing our country to leftwingnuts.

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