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Tom Lehrer - National Brotherhood Week Предстоящему невнятному празднику посвящается. :))) I’d like to start out with telling you something about a very peculiar American custom. One week in every February is officially designated a National Brotherhood Week. This means that we are supposed to stop whatever we’re doing - burning, killing, whatever - and love everybody else. And it’s really quite a strain. Here is a song about National Brotherhood Week. Oh, the white folks hate the black folks And the black folks hate the white folks To hate all but the right folks Is an old established rule But during National Brotherhood Week National Brotherhood Week See Cassius Clay and * dancing cheek to cheek! It’s fun to eulogize The people you despise As long as you don’t let ’em in your school Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks And the rich folks hate the poor folks All of my folks hate all of your folks It’s American as apple pie But during National Brotherhood Week National Brotherhood Week New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans ’Cause it’s very chic Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can’t stand You can tolerate him if you try Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Moslems And everybody hates the Jews But during National Brotherhood Week National Brotherhood Week It’s National Everyone-Smile-At- One-Another-hood Week Be nice to people who Are inferior to you It’s only for a week, so have no fear Be grateful that it doesn’t last all year!
