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CHILDREN WILL LISTEN
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Barbra Streisand
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How do you say to your child in the night
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Nothing is all black but then nothing is all white?
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How do you say it will all be alright
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When you know that it mightn't be true?
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What do you do?
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Careful the things you say,
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Children will listen.
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Careful the things you do,
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Children will see.
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And learn.
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Children may not obey,
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But children will listen.
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Children will look to you
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For which way to turn,
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To learn what to be.
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Careful before you say,
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"Listen to me."
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Children will listen.
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Careful the wish you make,
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Wishes are children.
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Careful the path they take,
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Wishes come true,
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Not free.
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Careful the spell you cast,
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Not just on children.
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Sometimes the spell may last
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Past what you can see
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And turn against you...
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Careful the tale you tell.
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That is the spell.
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Children will listen...
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How can you say to a child who's in flight,
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Don't slip away and I won't hold so tight?
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What can you say that no matter how slight won't be misunderstood?
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What do you leave to your child when you're dead
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Only what ever you put in its head
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Things that your mother and father had said
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Which were left to them too.
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Careful what you say, children will listen
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Careful you do it too, children will see and learn.
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Oh!
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Guide them but step away,
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Children will glisten.
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Temper with what is true
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And children will turn,
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If just to be free.
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Careful before you say,
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"Listen to me."
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Children will listen...
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Children will listen!
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Children, children will listen
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