Belated 63rd Birthday greetings to Stephen Demetre Georgiou  - better known as Cat Stevens and, today, as Yusuf Islam.

His great songs have delighted and inspired tens of millions of people in the past 40 years.  He has shown us that the Way of Peace transcends national, cultural and religious boundaries.


Where Do The Children Play lyrics
Songwriters: Stevens, Cat;



Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want, 'cause you can get anything

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads, pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off
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Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher till there's no more room up there
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?


Peace Train lyrics
Songwriters: Yusuf Islam


Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun

Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Some day it's going to come

'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a peace train
Oh, peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Now I've been smiling lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun

Oh, peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on the peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on the peace train

Get your bags together
Go bring your good friends too
'Cause it's getting nearer
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It soon will be with you

Now come and join the living
It's not so far from you
And it's getting nearer
Soon it will all be true

Oh, peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on the peace train
Peace train

Now I've been crying lately
Thinking about the world as it is
Why must we go on hating
Why can't we live in bliss

'Cause out on the edge of darkness
There rides a peace train
Oh, peace train take this country
Come take me home again

Oh, peace train sounding louder
Glide on the peace train
Come on the peace train
Yes, peace train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the peace train
Come on, come on, come on
Yes, come on the peace train
Yes, it's a peace train

Come on the peace train
Oh peace train



these lyrics are last corrected by Glen Travis

supporter of terror

I do like "Wild World" by Cat Stevens, what was the controversy with him years ago? never really paid attention.

Quoted from Henry

I do like "Wild World" by Cat Stevens, what was the controversy with him years ago? never really paid attention.

I like Morning Has Broken and Moonshadow -- and Father and Son ---  and his newer work is pretty good, too.
The "controversy" a few years ago - was that he was incorrectly portrayed as a "terrorist".    

Cat Stevens - now Yusuf Islam - is dedicated to encouraging peace and human rights through out the world.
he is working to bridge the divide between the Muslim and the Western World.