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Thread #170794   Message #4130353
Posted By: GerryM
29-Dec-21 - 04:55 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Younger Generation (John Sebastian)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Younger Generation (John Sebastian)
Songs about parenting? There's Teach Your Children, by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

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 you hear and do you care)
Can't know the fears (and can't you see)
That your elders grew by (we must be free)
And, so, please help them with your youth (to teach your children what you believe in)
They seek the truth (make a world that we can live in)
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

https://youtu.be/EkaKwXddT_I