| You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear.
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| You’ve got to be taught from year to year.
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| It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear.
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| You’ve got to be carefully taught.
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| You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
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| of people whose eyes are oddly made,
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| and people whose skin is a different shade.
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| You’ve got to be carefully taught.
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| You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
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| before you are 6 or 7 or 8
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| to hate all the people your relatives hate.
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| You’ve got to be carefully taught.
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| You’ve got to be carefully taught.
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| «This is just the kind of ugliness I was running away from.
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| It has followed me all this way.
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| All this… now it has found me.»
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| I was cheated before and cheated again
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| by a mean little world full of mean little men.
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| The one chance for me is this life I know best
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| to be here on an island and to hell with the rest.
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| I’ll cling to this island like a tree or a storm
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| I’ll cling to this island and be free evermore. |