You can get good milk from a brown-skin cow;
The color of the skin doesn't matter anyhow.
Oh, ho, ho, Haw, Haw, Haw,
You can learn common sense from a grocery store.
Heard the peach pit say to the applecore,
The color of our skin doesn't matter anymore.
Oh, ho, ho, can't you see,
The color of your skin doesn't matter to me.
Heard a choo-choo train say to its track,
"Don't care if my passengers are white or black",
Oh, ho, ho, use your brain,
You can learn common sense from a railroad train.
The color of the skin doesn't matter anyhow.
Oh, ho, ho, Haw, Haw, Haw,
You can learn common sense from a grocery store.
Heard the peach pit say to the applecore,
The color of our skin doesn't matter anymore.
Oh, ho, ho, can't you see,
The color of your skin doesn't matter to me.
Heard a choo-choo train say to its track,
"Don't care if my passengers are white or black",
Oh, ho, ho, use your brain,
You can learn common sense from a railroad train.
Contributed by Bartleby - 2011/3/31 - 10:33
the lyric at bottom goes: "Heard a choo choo train say to the railroad track"...my grandmother used to play this "album" for us in the l950's and to this day, I remember most of the lyrics. It's helped form my positive view of/ interest in the world and its different people.
k.schwarzmann - 2014/11/6 - 16:07
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Parole di Hy Zaret
Musica di Lou Singer
Nell’album “Little Songs on Big Subjects” del 1948.
Testo trovato su Mudcat Café.
Fu l’ONU a commissionare al paroliere Hy Zaret (quello di “Unchained Melody” ma anche di The Partisan, l’adattamento inglese della Complainte du partisan) e al compositore Lou Singer una serie di canzoni sul rispetto del prossimo e sulla tolleranza razziale specificamente rivolte al pubblico dei più piccoli. Le canzoncine di Zaret e Singer, affidate gruppi ed artisti come The Jesters, The Bachelors e Leon Bibb & Ronnie Gilbert, furono diffuse a manetta dalle emittenti radiofoniche americane e in televisione (per quei non molti che allora ce l’avevano) furono accompagnate da cartoons appositamente realizzati.
La copertina di uno dei dischi della serie, quello de The Bachelors (oggi dimenticato gruppo vocale dei primi anni 50). Le canzoni erano sempre le stesse rifatte a gusto degli interpreti, più qualcosa di originale per ogni disco.