Crosby Stills Nash and Young

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Teach Your Children

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Teach Your Children

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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 goodbye

Teach your children well

Their father's hell did slowly go by

And feed them on your dreams

The one they pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would 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 pick's the one you'll know by

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry

So just look at them and sigh and know they love you

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