You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught

William Tabbert * Track #14 On South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Album South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

South Pacific (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Original Broadway Cast of South Pacific

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William Tabbert

1949

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught by William Tabbert

Performed by

William Tabbert

Produced by

Goddard Lieberson

Writed by

Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein

About

This song is sung by Lieutenant Cable, with the line

[Racism] is not born in you! It happens after you’re born

before he begins singing.

This song (and the discussion of racism in the musical) were very controversial. A 1997 article in History Today observes

The film’s theme of racial intoleranc...

You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught Lyrics

[CABLE]
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 Q&A

Who wrote You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught's ?

You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught was written by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II & Rodgers & Hammerstein.