Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen - Live In Concert

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 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
 Careful the things you say, children will listen
 Careful the things you do, children will see and learn
 Children may not obey, but children will listen
 Children will look to you for which way to turn
 To learn what to be, careful before you say
 Listen to me, children will listen
 How can you say to a child who's in flight
 "Don't slip away", and, "I won't hold so tight"?
 What can you say that no matter how slight
 Won't be misunderstood?
 What do you leave to your child when you're dead?
 Only whatever you put in its head
 Things that your mother and father had said
 Which were left to them too
 Careful what you say, children will listen
 Careful you do it too, children will see and learn
 Oh, guide them but step away, children will glisten
 Temper with what is true and children will turn
 If just to be free, careful before you say
 Listen to me, children will listen, children will listen
 Children, children will listen