Lyrics from a great song from Broadway musical SOUTH PACIFIC. Go to YOUTUBE and listen to song being sung... Find original cut from the Hollywood version Poem or words from Broadway movie South Pacific... South Pacific received scrutiny for its commentary regarding relationships between different races and ethnic groups. In particular, You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage.[1] Sung by the character Lieutenant Cable, the song is preceded by a lyric saying racism is not born in you! It happens after you’re born... Rodgers and Hammerstein risked the entire South Pacific venture in light of legislative challenges to its decency or supposed Communist agenda. While the show was on a tour of the Southern United States, lawmakers in Georgia introduced a bill outlawing entertainment containing an underlying philosophy inspired by Moscow.[2] One legislator said that a song justifying interracial marriage was implicitly a threat to the American way of life.[2] Rodgers and Hammerstein defended their work strongly. James Michener, upon whose stories South Pacific was based, recalled, The authors replied stubbornly that this number represented why they had wanted to do this play, and that even if it meant the failure of the production, it was going to stay in.[2] Youve Got To Be Carefully Taught, (Lyrics from South Pacific.) Youve got to be taught to hate and fear, Youve got to be taught from year to year, Its got to be drummed in your dear little ear, Youve got to be carefully taught. Youve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diffrent shade, Youve got to be carefully taught. Youve got to be taught before its too late, Before you are six or seven or eight, To hate all the people your relatives hate, Youve got to be carefully taught! A song that is as timely today .... 2014... as it was when the original book was written about 1948.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:58:07 +0000
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