You've Got to Be Carefully Taught (2023 Digimix Remaster)

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

You've got to be carefully taught

This is just the kind of ugliness I was running away from!

It has followed me all these years, and now it has found me!

I was cheated before, and I'm cheated again

By a mean little world of mean little men

And the one chance for me is this life I know best

To be here on an island, and the hell with the rest

I will cling to this island like a tree or a stone

I will cling to this island and be free and alone