Manon, Marine, Morgane, Melissa

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Ma grand-mère a 87 ans. Grand-mère, deux fois. Arrière grand-mère, quatre fois pour l’instant. Aujourd’hui, j’ai vu ce petit bout de papier près du téléphone. J’ai constaté l’écriture de plus en plus hésitante. C’était émouvant.
Jeudi dernier, elle a dû prendre son stylo pour écrire les prénoms de ses quatre arrière-petites filles - par ordre chronologique. La dernière, Melissa, est née le 10 juillet 2008. Elles ont 87 ans d’écart.

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.

Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen [ Barbra Streisand ] Live in concert 2006

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 fright,
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 what ever 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

Titre original : “You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”
Artistes: Rodgers and Hammerstein
Année : 1949

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