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To be young, gifted and black |
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Oh what a lovely precious dream |
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To be young, gifted and black |
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Open up your heart to what I mean |
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'Cause you know in this whole wide world |
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There's a million, A MILLION boys and girls |
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Who are young, gifted and black |
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And that's a fact |
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To be young, gifted and black |
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We must begin to tell our young |
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Don't you know there's a whole world waiting for you? |
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Don't you know the quest has just begun for you? |
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Haven't you heard that the joy- |
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-The joy |
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-The joy of the day is |
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That one day that we all be proud to say |
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That we were young, gifted and black |
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And it's sho' 'nuff where it's at |
