Teach Your Children Lyrics

Nash, 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 picks, the one you'll know by.
  Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will 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 picks, the one you'll know by.
  Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
      So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.