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 different 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!
Though I know that we meet every night And we couldn't have changed since the last time To my joy and delight It's a new kind of love at first sight
Though it's you and it's I all the time Every meeting's a marvelous pastime You're increasingly sweet So whenever we happen to meet
I greet you with a song in my heart I behold your adorable face Just a song at the start But it's soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells I'm touching your hand It tells that you're standing near, and At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens its portals to me Can I help but rejoice That a song such as ours came to be But I always knew I would live life through With a song in my heart for you
This can't be love because I feel so well No sobs, no sorrows, no sighs This can't be love I get no dizzy spells My head is not in the sky
My heart does not stand still just hear it beat This is too sweet to be love This can't be love because I feel so well But still I love to look in your eyes
My heart does not stand still just hear it beat This is too sweet to be love This can't be love because I feel so well But still I love to look in your eyes I love to look in your eyes
If you should ever leave me take my smile, Might as well, I won’t tell, I’ll never need to use it long as you’re gone, What’s the use, there’d be no excuse,
You see you’re the only one who ever made me laugh, You gave your love to me, you were my better half, I only frown without you all the while, So if you should ever leave me take my smile, ...
You see you’re the only one who ever made me laugh, You gave your love to me, you were my better half, I only frown without you all the while, So if you should ever leave me take my smile,
If you should ever leave me, baby please believe me, If you should ever leave me take my smile.
If you should ever leave me take my smile, Might as well, I won’t tell, I’ll never need to use it long as you’re gone, What’s the use, there’d be no excuse,
You see you’re the only one who ever made me laugh, You gave your love to me, you were my better half, I only frown without you all the while, So if you should ever leave me take my smile, ...
You see you’re the only one who ever made me laugh, You gave your love to me, you were my better half, I only frown without you all the while, So if you should ever leave me take my smile,
If you should ever leave me, baby please believe me, If you should ever leave me take my smile.