Teach Your Children

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“Teach Your Children”
Single by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
from the album Déjà Vu
Released 1970
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:53
Label Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Graham Nash
Producer Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young singles chronology
"Our House"
(1970)
"Teach Your Children"
(1970)
"Woodstock"
(1970)

"Teach Your Children" is a song by Graham Nash from the album Deja Vu by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released in 1970. It quickly became a counterculture anthem.[citation needed] Written about Nash's difficult relationship with his father[citation needed], it features Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar.

"Teach Your Children" was used in a 1970s public service message on television highlighting the negative aspect of nuclear testing and proliferation. The clip portrayed multiple nuclear explosions carried out by the United States.[citation needed]

The song was performed as a duet between Graham Nash and American Idol finalist Brooke White, on the season seven finale of American Idol on May 21, 2008.