![]() ![]() Kramer turned down three Lennon-McCartney songs before he decided to record “Little Children,” a No. Kramer was one of the British musicians represented by Beatles‘ manager Brian Epstein. “Even though he had only been playing it a very short time and, I believe, had never played it on record,” Nash recalled, “Jerry loved the song and he brought his pedal steel into the studio and that was his first take.” Jerry Garcia played pedal steel guitar on the track, an instrument he had only recently learned while performing with New Riders of the Purple Sage. “And that caused me to finish that song.” “I realized if we didn’t teach our children a better way of dealing with our world, we were in deep trouble,” Nash told The Atlantic. Nash was inspired to finish the song, a Top 20 hit in 1970, by a Diane Arbus photo that showed a boy in Central Park holding a toy hand grenade. Graham Nash began writing “Teach Your Children” in 1968 while still a member of the Hollies.
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