Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Carefully Taught (from South Pacific), artist - David Hughes. Album song Rodgers & Hammerstein In London - Vocal Gems From Oklahoma, Carousel & South Pacific, in the genre Мюзиклы
Date of issue: 23.02.2003
Record label: Sepia
Song language: English
Carefully Taught (from South Pacific) |
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 different shade. |
You’ve got to be carefully taught. |
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late, |
before you are 6 or 7 or 8 |
to hate all the people your relatives hate. |
You’ve got to be carefully taught. |
You’ve got to be carefully taught. |
«This is just the kind of ugliness I was running away from. |
It has followed me all this way. |
All this… now it has found me.» |
I was cheated before and cheated again |
by a mean little world full of mean little men. |
The one chance for me is this life I know best |
to be here on an island and to hell with the rest. |
I’ll cling to this island like a tree or a storm |
I’ll cling to this island and be free evermore. |