Teach Your Children

Graham Nash wrote it in 1968 while he was still in the Hollies, who never recorded it in a studio but did record it live in 1983. Stills gave it a country swing in place of the Henry VIII style of Nash's original demo. Nash later said it started as a slightly funky English folk song and that Stephen Stills put a country beat to it and turned it into a hit record. He associated its message with Diane Arbus's 1962 photograph Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park.

Jerry Garcia played the pedal steel. He had played the instrument only a short time, and told Record Mirror he recorded a series of pieces and spliced them together to make the backing and the solo. In return, CSNY were to help the Grateful Dead with their vocal harmonies for Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Young did not play on it. It reached number 16 on the Hot 100, 28 on the Easy Listening chart and eight in Canada, with Carry On on the B-side. It was still climbing when Ohio was rush-released.

In 1994 Crosby, Stills and Nash re-recorded it with Suzy Bogguss, Alison Krauss and Kathy Mattea, as the Red Hots, for the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country. They played it on The Colbert Report on 30 July 2008, with the host singing the fourth harmony part. A live version is on 4 Way Street.