Teach Your Children Well Chords & Guitar Lesson

Welcome to my Teach Your Children Well chord and guitar lesson by Crobsy, Stills, Nash and Young. This is a really fun song that uses a bit of a Boom Chuck strumming rhythm.

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL CHORDS:

This song does feature a Bm chord on the Bridge section, but you can always use the easy Bm Chord.

Bm+Easy

Teach Your Children Well Guitar Chords:

Teach Your Children Well Strumming Patterns:

Boom Chuck Strumming:
1 +  2+ 3+  4+
BD BD BD BD

Boom Chuckah Strumming:
1 +a   2 +a  3+a   4+a
BDU  BDU  BDU   BDU

Teach Your Children Well Guitar Lesson:

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Teach Your Children Well Chord Chart:

Intro:
DDGGDDAA

Verse:
   D     D                           G
You, who are on the road,
    G                     D      D                              A       A
Must have a code, that you can live by.
          D     D                      G
And so, become yourself,
     G                     D     D                         A     A
Because the past, is just a goodbye.

Chorus:
D           D                         G
Teach your children well,
G                       D    D                            A   A
Their fathers hell,   did slowly go by
          D      D                              G
And feed,   them on your dreams
           G               D     D                             A               A
The one they pick’s, the one you’ll know by

Bridge:
D                    D                           G
Don’t you ever ask them why,
                G                                    D
If they told you, you would cry,
                 D                             BmBmGA (strum&hold)
So just look at them and sigh,
                                D               D
And know they love you

Solo:
GGDDAA (strum and hold)

Verse:
          D                             D                      G
And you,                      of tender years,
(Can you hear and)                 (Do you care and)
   G                          D         D                              A              A
Can’t know the fears, that your elders grew by
(Can you see we)            (Must be free to)
                               D                          D                               G
And so please help,                   them with your youth,
(Teach your children)                    (You believe and)
   G                          D              D                              A          A
They seek the truth,         before they can die,
(Make a world that)        (We can live in)

Chorus:
D           D                         G
Teach your children well,
G                       D    D                            A   A
Their fathers hell,   did slowly go by
          D      D                              G
And feed,   them on your dreams
           G               D     D                             A               A
The one they pick’s, the one you’ll know by

Bridge:
D                    D                           G
Don’t you ever ask them why,
                G                                    D
If they told you, you would cry,
                 D                             BmBmGA (strum&hold)
So just look at them and sigh,
                                D               D
And know they love you

Outro:
GGDDAA(strum&hold)

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