Schooner Fare Lyrics

Dave Hentchel

on Teach Your Children to Sing

Here are the lyrics, as I hear them:

Teach Your Children to Sing
Written by Steve Romanoff
Performed by Schooner Fare
Key of C, 3/4 time
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Somewhere between your noon hour and alarm clock setting day,
If you are lucky, you must be lucky, but we're all lucky anyway,
Set aside your routine pleasures for this most important thing:
Take the time to teach your children to sing.

Well you know it's not like working and the kids will call it play,
And as you teach them, they will teach you, we're all teachers in a way.
So set aside your routine pleasures, sit together in a ring,
Take the time to teach your children to sing.

Now I know what you are thinking, "he's a dreamer, he's a fool,
I can't even sing myself, they used to keep me after school."
But if the parent is the playmate and the playground is your mind,
Take a lesson from the piper, kids choose music every time.

Before the fighting or the silence they find when they're at home,
Or when they grow and turn to battle, or find some way to be alone.
Away from life, away from loving, away from nearly everything
That give us all our own good reason to sing.

No, it won't take away your sorrow, or be a cure-all for your pain,
It won't end all wars tomorrow, or bring the desert rain;
But if we start now with our children while we still have got the time,
They'll be much less apt to quarrel when a song is on their mind.

Somewhere between your noon hour and alarm clock setting day,
If you are lucky, you must be lucky, but we're all lucky every day,
Set aside your routine pleasures for this most important thing,
Take the time to teach your children to sing.

Take your time, teach your children to sing.