Teach Your Children - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Teach Your Children (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 1970). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2021-01-29. "Keeping the Oldies Alive"

"Teach Your Children" was written by Graham Nash in 1968, while still with the Hollies, recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in 1969, and released in 1970 (J. Bosso, guitarplayer.com, Oct 08, 2021). Although the song is found on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's album "Déjà Vu," Neil Young did not perform on the song and Gerry Garcia and John Sebastian were brought in to play pedal steel guitar and harmonica respectively (en.wikipedia.org, 2022). The song hit the #16 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the quartet's second top 20 hit (Whitburn, 2013). The song may have rose higher on the chart had it not been for the release of "Ohio" a couple of weeks later (songfacts.com, 2022; Whitburn, 2013), which was written by Young immediately after hearing about the Kent State shootings (L. Hutchinson, performingsongwriter.com, May 4, 2017). Radio stations were hesitant to promote two song by the same artist at the same time, so "Teach Your Children" was prematurely sidelined in favor of "Ohio" (songfacts.com, 2022).

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Lyrics:

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.