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Teach Your Children…

Posted by littleindian on March 3, 2007. |

Album cover - Deja Vu

I had spent millions of hours
trying to learn the guitar leads, till I realised,
not only was I playing the wrong kind of guitar,
I was trying to emulate the great Jerry Garcia.
Without success.

I was reading this blog
Climate Change reassurance for kids,
when this song from the yesteryears came to back to my mind.

On the same blogsite,
I also found these Throwaway Lines;
so this is for Sam.

“Teach Your Children”
is a song by Graham Nash, about his difficult relationship with his father.
From the album Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released in 1970.

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 picked, 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 picked, 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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3 Responses to “Teach Your Children…”


  1. Hi little indian-

    This is one of my favorite albums. My parents used to play it in the house when I was a kid. And when I moved away from home, it was one of the first Cd’s I bought for myself. I love to sing along with the harmony parts of this album.
    Good to see your writings are leaning towards the light these days.
    Peace
    PS, I’ll turn out the lights if you can remember to lock the door. 😉

  2. will do, kemosabe 🙂

  3. Dear little indian,

    I know a Latin, History and English teacher whose future is being decided by his school board today. He teaches children well.

    The past few days I have been helping his students, and their parents, deal with a situation that has arisen. Truth is stranger than fiction, it is said, and this case is an example of that. You can read how it has unfolded to date on my blog, which links to a website created a few days and nights ago by his students.

    A friend has written a beautiful ode for Mr. Dumbra using simple language that his students can understand and may well have been able to pen themselves. You might enjoy reflecting upon the poem.

    Best wishes,

    inel