YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT

 Just finished watching South Pacific. Six words You've Got to be Carefully Taught. Learned the lyrics before I ever saw the musical. They were in my Modern Problems text book. Seniour year hight school. The boradway musical premiered in 1949. Pushed the envelope on interacial relationships. 

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 diff'rent shade,

You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,

Before you are six or seven or eight,

To hate all the people your relatives hate,

You've got to be carefully taught

May be one of the shortest songs to ever be in a major musical.