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Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen
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Barbra Streisand
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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 before it's too late
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Before you are six or seven or eight
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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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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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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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Tamper 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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