Teach Your Children

intro - 4 bars pedal steel (follow the bass)

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verse 1 - bass only

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You, who are on the road

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Must have a code that you can live by. 

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And so become yourself, 

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Because the past is just a goodbye. 

verse 2 - pedal steel joins

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Teach your children well, 

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Their father's hell did slowly go by, 

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And feed them on your dreams,

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The one they picked, the one you'll know by. 

bridge

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  Don't you ever ask them why,

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If they told you, you would cry,

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So just look at them and sigh, 

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And know they love you.

verse 3

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And you, of the tender years 

   (Can you hear - and do you care?)

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Can't know the fears your elders grew by. 

              (Can't you see we must be free to)

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So, please, help them with your youth, 

   (Teach your children -  what you believe in)

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They seek the truth before they can die. 

             (Make a world that we can live in)

verse 4

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Teach your parents well,

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Their children's hell will slowly go by. 

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And feed them on your dreams, 

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The one they picked, the one you'll know by.

bridge

|D                        |G

  Don't you ever ask them why,

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If they told you, you would cry,

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So just look at them and sigh, 

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And know they love you.