| If you had a choice of color
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| Which one would you choose my brothers
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| If there was no day or night
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| Which would you prefer to be right
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| How long have you hated your white teacher
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| Who told you, you love your black preacher
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| Do you respect your brother’s woman friend
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| And share with black folks not of kin
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| People must prove to the people
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| A better day is coming for you and for me
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| With just a little bit more education
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| And love for our nation
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| Would make a better society
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| Now some of us would rather cuss and make a fuss
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| Than to bring about a little trust
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| But we shall overcome our beliefs someday
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| If you’ll only listen to what I have to say
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| And how long have you hated your white teacher
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| Who told you, you love your black preacher
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| Can you respect your brother’s woman friend
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| And share with black folks not of kin
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| I said now people must prove to the people
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| A better day is coming for you and for me
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| With just a little bit more education
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| And love for our nation
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| Would make a better society
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| And if you had a choice of colors
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| Which one would you choose my brothers
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| If there was no day or night
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| Which would you prefer to be right
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| And If you had a choice of colors
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| Which one would you choose my brothers
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| If there was no day or night
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| Which would you prefer to be right |