Teach Your Children -- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

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  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 Wil Cry
So Just Look At Them And Sigh  And Know They Love You.
And You, (Can you hear and)  Of Tender Years (Do you care and)
Can’t Know The Fears (Can you see we)  That Your Elders Grew By (Must be free to)
And So Please Help (Teach your children what)  Them With Your Youth (You believe in)
They Seek The Truth (Make a world that) Before They Can Die (We can live in)

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 Wil Cry
So Just Look At Them And Sigh   And Know They Love You.           (sing365)  

Graham Nash wrote this. The lyrics deal with the often difficult relationship he had with his father, who spent time in prison.                                                           (songfacts)