ADD: Teach Your Children descant

Subject: Teach Your Children descant
From:
Date: 08 May 02 - 05:47 AM

Hi, gang.

I'd just like to know if anyone here knows the words to the descant that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young sing during the second verse of "Teach Your Children." Actually, I suppose it would be Crosby, Stills, and Young that sing it, while Graham Nash sings "And you / of tender years / can't know the fears / that your elders grew by." I guess the fear that my tender ears have grown into is STILL not being able to make out all the words they sing. Thanx.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 May 02 - 08:26 AM

Don't know it well enough myself to know whether This site includes the lyrics for the descant.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:00 AM

Nope, Nigel, that doesn't show the descant. Somewhere I have a CSN&Y songbook. I will try and find it if it doesn't show up first.

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:52 AM

This page has stuff at the bottom that begins "you of tender years". Is that all of it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Ringer
Date: 08 May 02 - 09:56 AM

I tried teaching mine, and it didn't work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: MsMoon
Date: 08 May 02 - 10:05 AM

No, it's behind the lyrics, it's something like "can you hear me/ do you care/ can you see we/ must be free to/ teach your children/ you believe them/ make a world that/ we can live in"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Big Mick
Date: 08 May 02 - 10:29 AM

Yeah............I am looking for that songbook, I know it's here somewhere..........

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST,An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 08 May 02 - 10:39 AM

What a lovely song it is, both musically and in its message.

I don't know that I ever did much to teach mine other than by being around and hoping they would pick up the right values through hints and some sort of osmosis. They've turned out pretty OK and I don't even know if my wife and I can claim much of the credit, but maybe we didn't do too badly. Maybe helping them to find the right peer group is at least as important as anything which we say explicitly.

There's a lot to be said for adopting the song as an alternative to some fairly crap national anthems, as was suggested on another thread recently.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Jeri
Date: 08 May 02 - 05:40 PM

I always thought it was "we can live in peace," with "peace" coming in at the same time as the next "teach." (No, I never knew the whole descant.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 08 May 02 - 06:00 PM

Listening to the CD, I think that Timbrel has it pretty much spot on.

Wow, I've not listened to this in a long time

Suprised how good it still sounds!

Jim

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: jeffp
Date: 09 May 02 - 12:45 PM

Can you hear
And do you fear
And can't you see
We must be free
To teach your children
What you believe in
Make a world that we can live in.

From the liner notes on the vinyl release of "Four Way Street."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 09 May 02 - 12:55 PM

Thanks jeffp

Anyone fancy mailing [e-mail] ?

I'm too lazy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 May 02 - 01:02 PM

Descant be them...but maybe it is.......

Sorry.........punny day........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 May 02 - 10:09 PM

Just thought I'd pass on a useful tip I got at a workshop. To produce a descant easily, take the tenor part of a song, raise it a couple of octaves and fancy it up a bit. It works.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: M.Ted
Date: 10 May 02 - 12:05 AM

That's not a tip, that is, more or less, a description of what a descant part is--

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From:
Date: 21 May 02 - 06:26 PM

Actually, I'm the lazy one. Took me, how long?, to get back here. Thanks a lot, y'all.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Apr 17 - 10:05 PM

There's a nice example of the descant on this recording by Kathy Mattea, Alison Krauss,& Suzy Boggus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g795h7HaZsw

...not that I can make out the words. Note the familiar faces in the audience.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST,MartinaP
Date: 03 Nov 17 - 03:48 PM

Thanks guys, I ended this for or 1st gig on Sunday - eek!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 05 Nov 17 - 07:10 PM

While the liner notes (cited above) have the second line of the descant as And do you fear, in all the live recordings I've heard (YouTube, primarily) the line is And do you care.


Jay

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Teach Your Children descant
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 19 - 12:18 AM

Can you hear and
Do you care and
Can you see we
Must be free to
Teach the children
We believe they'll
Build a world where
We can live in,

TEACH... Your parents well... etc.