My all time favorite Yusuf/Cat Stevens song. He was so ahead of his time, writing a song, at such a young age, with an incredibly profound message. The song is more relevant now than ever. The new recording and video for Tea for the Tillerman 2 are brilliant.
it's amazing how the music industry has changed since then - it was so much different in those day (no fancy dancy on stage or fancy clothes just great music)
Growing up in the turbulent 60s wasn't all magical but. , peace and love were bad words then like they are today. But my generation was on a mission and it caught on big time. I'd like to believe we made a difference which can work today if people work together. Peace
I so love this song!!! My father raised me from his prison cell. Yusuf, you were like a surrogate Father to me. I found so much peace and love in your songs. Anytime, I missed my Dad I played your music, he was Sicilian and you both resemble each other. When I told my Dad, your music takes my sadness away he hugged me so tight, he was so grateful I chose such a wonderful man to follow. When you made a choice to follow Islam, my Father told me that he was Sicilian by birth, Moroccan on his Maternal side. He explained to me, that Muslims were forced into Christianity or face imprisonment or death, we had ancestors who split sides. He loved knowing that YOU helped keep me in good spirit and I found you at such a young age of 6, I was born in 65, your music has guided me, has soothed me. Such a wonderful gift to live in the same lifetime as you. I truly don't know how I would have gotten along without your words of wisdom and guidance. Thank you, for a lifetime of enrichment, thanks for being my "other" Dad. You will forever have a special place in my heart and Soul ❤
It’s 55 years today since we met 29th of july 1971 Tore Stai London Heathrow Don! You feel a change is coming, from another side of time It don’t come easy until the peace train ,peace train Glide on the peace train Come bring your good friends too. It will all come through already
Cat Stevens is not just singing. He is a man possessed. Possessed of goodwill towards humanity.His anguish shows here. His music, I honestly feel, is better than the Beatles' or Stones' which could only mean it is the best. I know I am going to draw a lot of flak but.... If I were a believing man, I would have said he is a gift - a special gift - from God. May he live until I die.
I hope there will always be a place for children to run free and wild, in a healthy environment. This song meant a lot to a young woman, a friend, who sadly passed away. This song will forever remind me of her ❤️
I know we've come a long way.. but we forgot about the children and how to treat one another. I pray we can somehow find a way to connect and to remember that we are all here to love each other. This song helps us to think about that. Thank you Yusuf
"En donnant on reçoit, en aimant on est aimé" ... Cela te parle ??? Merci à toi mon petit 💖 que dieu soit avec toi en ce jour béni.. Et bonne journée . 💕💋💘
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Where Do The Children Play - My Poetic Response From 2003: In Response To Cat Stevens Earnest Question By Ric A Ohge (c) 2003 Where do the children play? By thousands of sewers. running through the mud of shanty towns. In meadows of imagination beside the untiring machines of thousands of factories. In secret visions dreaming beneath the earth, or in steep pits wielding picks and hammers to yield the earth’s bounty. They laugh wondering at butterflies, brightly colored blossoms, and insects in the baking heat of the ripening fields, chasing maimed pets and friends among fields of land mines and the mass graves of a hundred wars, dodging the slings and arrows, automatic gunfire and artillery shells, seeing flights of angels in the thunder fire of jets circling the burning cities. They gaze in wonder as they stare back into the compound eyes of the relentless flies, while drifting to a still and final torpor in the dust of a third world pest hole, running…hiding among broken buildings with wooden guns, and their parent’s words, fighting bravely in mock battles, until errant projectiles topple them forever. They mostly run through the golden fields and shining hills of heaven where it seems to the angel of death, they arrive daily by boatloads-these war babies. That’s where the children play. This is a response to a song-actually one of my favorites, as in it's time it addressed a real quandary. However time keeps moving, the question needed some new answers in a world grown more dangerous to children and other living things. That was 2003...now we have Yemen, Gaza & Palestine-JUST for starters...the "angel of death" must gob-smacked by now.
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 [Chorus] I know we've come a long way We're changing day to day But tell me, where do the children play? [Verse 2] 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 [Chorus] Oh, I know we've come a long way We're changing day to day But tell me, where do the children play? [Verse 3] Well you've cracked the sky Scrapers fill the air But will you keep on building higher 'til 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?
Cat has always been my favorite singer for her songs and performances. A man with the greatest social, spiritual and environmental awareness all in one, he has taught us a lot and few in this world have learned and understood his messages.
Beautiful Song The man I met today looks a lot like HIM ,I know it's not though. He was looking at me to see if I was looking at him. ❤😊 Totally Gorgeous
Wow I'm old I think but I dont feel it I'm not kidding I feel same as then I can still do a split a cheer tennis ect I'm old but I really dont feel old
Where Do the Children Play? Cat Stevens Bueno, creo que está bien, construir aviones gigantes Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes O dar un paseo en un tren cósmico Or taking a ride on a cosmic train Encienda el verano desde una máquina tragamonedas Switch on summer from a slot machine Sí, obtén lo que quieras si quieres Yes, get what you want to if you want Porque puedes conseguir cualquier cosa Cause you can get anything Sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino I know we've come a long way Estamos cambiando dia a dia We're changing day to day Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños? But tell me, where do the children play? Bueno, ruedas por caminos sobre hierba verde fresca Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass Para sus cargas de camión bombeando gas de gasolina For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas Y los haces largos, y los haces difíciles And you make them long, and you make them tough Pero siguen y siguen, y parece que no puedes bajar But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off Oh, sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino Oh, I know we've come a long way Estamos cambiando dia a dia We're changing day to day Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños? But tell me, where do the children play? Bueno, has roto el cielo, los raspadores llenan el aire Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air ¿Pero seguirás construyendo más alto? But will you keep on building higher ¿Hasta que no haya más espacio allí arriba? 'Til there's no more room up there? ¿Nos harás reír, nos harás llorar? Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry? ¿Nos dirá cuándo vivir, nos dirá cuándo morir? Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die? Sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino I know we've come a long way Estamos cambiando dia a dia We're changing day to day Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños? But tell me, where do the children play? Fuente: LyricFind Compositores: Yusuf Islam
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 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 'Til 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?
TU SEI UN DONO TU SEI UN DONO TU SEI UN DONO ... ED IO NON RINGRAZIO TE ! MA RINGRAZIO IL MIO DIO IL MIO SIGNORE GESÙ CRISTO CHE IN QUESTA VITA TI HO "'SENTITO"'. { PENSO COME FAREBBE PIACERE A TE. COL CUORE. 〽️ imi'''. CIAO AMICO MIO 🤝☮️
Azil le bruiteur vocal présent cette chanson au monde entier azil le bruiteur vocal akindouch abdallah code secret professionnel allah zeprexa abilify 28 12 1970 ❤maroc tiznit anzi
Am i the only one that thinks his voice is liquid gold and it makes my heart ache?
So cute his voice i think he sings with his heart i like so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My all time favorite Yusuf/Cat Stevens song. He was so ahead of his time, writing a song, at such a young age, with an incredibly profound message. The song is more relevant now than ever. The new recording and video for Tea for the Tillerman 2 are brilliant.
Agree
I've thought the same thing.@@Silly_Donkee_Goose
In front of a computer screen
it's amazing how the music industry has changed since then - it was so much different in those day (no fancy dancy on stage or fancy clothes just great music)
Let's face it..the whole show was pure Magic.... wish those days were now
Too right wish I was around back in those golden years hopefully music will do a revolution and go bact to said days
Growing up in the turbulent 60s wasn't all magical but. , peace and love were bad words then like they are today. But my generation was on a mission and it caught on big time. I'd like to believe we made a difference which can work today if people work together. Peace
My job is to bring those days back again for good
My job is to bring those days back again for good
How u goin to do that job
What a beautiful man he is
Wonderful so tender this singer ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I so love this song!!! My father raised me from his prison cell.
Yusuf, you were like a surrogate Father to me. I found so much peace and love in your songs. Anytime, I missed my Dad I played your music, he was Sicilian and you both resemble each other. When I told my Dad, your music takes my sadness away he hugged me so tight, he was so grateful I chose such a wonderful man to follow. When you made a choice to follow Islam, my Father told me that he was Sicilian by birth, Moroccan on his Maternal side. He explained to me, that Muslims were forced into Christianity or face imprisonment or death, we had ancestors who split sides.
He loved knowing that YOU helped keep me in good spirit and I found you at such a young age of 6, I was born in 65, your music has guided me, has soothed me. Such a wonderful gift to live in the same lifetime as you. I truly don't know how I would have gotten along without your words of wisdom and guidance. Thank you, for a lifetime of enrichment, thanks for being my "other" Dad. You will forever have a special place in my heart and Soul ❤
JM you are very lucky.
You've chosen the right idol.
Salam.
Thanks for sharing this touching story ❤
This is precious. My respect for Yusuf has increased manifold. He should be proud to read this. I hope he does.
Amen! One of his best
Thank you JM for sharing this moving story & Thank you Yusuf.
It’s 55 years today since we met
29th of july 1971
Tore Stai
London Heathrow
Don! You feel a change is coming, from another side of time
It don’t come easy until the peace train ,peace train
Glide on the peace train
Come bring your good friends too.
It will all come through already
omgosh when that curtain lifted....😍🤘
I was at this show/tour at our old Capital Center in Landover, MD. It was... MAGICAL!
Cat Stevens is not just singing. He is a man possessed. Possessed of goodwill towards humanity.His anguish shows here. His music, I honestly feel, is better than the Beatles' or Stones' which could only mean it is the best. I know I am going to draw a lot of flak but.... If I were a believing man, I would have said he is a gift - a special gift - from God.
May he live until I die.
2:55
Still love his music ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 2024
I hope there will always be a place for children to run free and wild, in a healthy environment. This song meant a lot to a young woman, a friend, who sadly passed away. This song will forever remind me of her ❤️
Love him!
One of Cat's BEST songs
Thank you for spreading the Gifts Good Sir. Cheers for Olympia Washington USA
Nothing but love and respect for this man!
I could listen to this wonderful artist every day all day! What a pleasure it is to have him back again!
Yousef the cat is a genius.
I know we've come a long way.. but we forgot about the children and how to treat one another. I pray we can somehow find a way to connect and to remember that we are all here to love each other. This song helps us to think about that. Thank you Yusuf
Well said Sandra we plough on regardless without any thought about tomorrow and our children x
Tremendo tema ,hermoso siempre Cat!!
SO MUCH PASSION.
I love that his songs had good messages in them. They weren't just about love between two ppl like most songs these days
Just Excellent...
Dawn has finally arrived.
I can’ t believe I’m alive
Mine is the sulight
Mine is the morning
Morning has broke n
Wrong spelling
So passionate, full of fire!! Beautiful ❤️
Gives me chills. So so great.
I love you, Yusuf / Cat
Love Yusuf so much ...
Beautiful
Thank you so much
Love is disn
i love this song 😘💕 where do the children play 🎶
"En donnant on reçoit, en aimant on est aimé" ... Cela te parle ??? Merci à toi mon petit 💖 que dieu soit avec toi en ce jour béni.. Et bonne journée . 💕💋💘
Now this is music.
And what a voice, too!!! 😍😘❤️
Awesome yusuf
I LOVE YOU CAT STEVENS ..💋💋💋
Extraordinaire man❤
Timelessness..you can listen to this man and it always seems beautifully sung about now...spring 2022!
Ok
Love Cat Stevens, beautiful voice,🥰💙🧡🎵🎶🎼💚🌷Good memories🌻💜
I love You Yusuf Cat Stevens
Fantastic!
So beautiful!
First time listening to you Yusuf and this got my toe tapping and the lyrics are good 👍🏽❤
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Where Do The Children Play - My Poetic Response From 2003:
In Response To Cat Stevens Earnest Question
By Ric A Ohge (c) 2003
Where do the children play?
By thousands of sewers.
running through the mud
of shanty towns.
In meadows of imagination
beside the untiring machines
of thousands of factories.
In secret visions
dreaming beneath the earth,
or in steep pits wielding picks
and hammers to yield the earth’s bounty.
They laugh wondering at butterflies,
brightly colored blossoms, and insects
in the baking heat of the ripening fields,
chasing maimed pets and friends
among fields of land mines and the
mass graves of a hundred wars,
dodging the slings and arrows,
automatic gunfire and artillery shells,
seeing flights of angels in the thunder
fire of jets circling the burning cities.
They gaze in wonder as they stare back
into the compound eyes of the relentless
flies, while drifting to a still and final torpor
in the dust of a third world pest hole,
running…hiding among broken buildings
with wooden guns, and their parent’s words,
fighting bravely in mock battles,
until errant projectiles topple them forever.
They mostly run through the golden fields
and shining hills of heaven where it seems
to the angel of death, they arrive daily
by boatloads-these war babies.
That’s where the children play.
This is a response to a song-actually one of my favorites, as in it's time it addressed a real quandary. However time keeps moving, the question needed some new answers in a world grown more dangerous to children and other living things. That was 2003...now we have Yemen, Gaza & Palestine-JUST for starters...the "angel of death" must gob-smacked by now.
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
[Chorus]
I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?
[Verse 3]
Well you've cracked the sky
Scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher
'til 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?
Cat has always been my favorite singer for her songs and performances. A man with the greatest social, spiritual and environmental awareness all in one, he has taught us a lot and few in this world have learned and understood his messages.
Hermoso tema y maravillosa interpretación.
Meraviglioso!
Legends
Genius
Tres belle chanson.
My man.
Oba, três pessoas do Brasil. 💓💓💓
Great song. What a writer!
50 years later I posted your song asking where the children will play with thousands of apartments being built in Scottsdale? 😔🙏🏻🥰
❤Save them world children's
Lindo demais!!😍❤😘
this song is playing in a soap opera in Brazil !!
Must have been so great to be part of this music.
❤ Très bientôt 💋
effing awesome!
thank you so much for this.
Beautiful Song
The man I met today looks a lot like HIM ,I know it's not though. He was looking at me to see if I was looking at him. ❤😊 Totally Gorgeous
just look on ScreenVariety Tv if you'd like to watch it HD
A minha FSSVORITA 😉❤
Wow I'm old I think but I dont feel it I'm not kidding I feel same as then I can still do a split a cheer tennis ect I'm old but I really dont feel old
Where Do the Children Play?
Cat Stevens
Bueno, creo que está bien, construir aviones gigantes
Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
O dar un paseo en un tren cósmico
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Encienda el verano desde una máquina tragamonedas
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Sí, obtén lo que quieras si quieres
Yes, get what you want to if you want
Porque puedes conseguir cualquier cosa
Cause you can get anything
Sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino
I know we've come a long way
Estamos cambiando dia a dia
We're changing day to day
Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños?
But tell me, where do the children play?
Bueno, ruedas por caminos sobre hierba verde fresca
Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
Para sus cargas de camión bombeando gas de gasolina
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
Y los haces largos, y los haces difíciles
And you make them long, and you make them tough
Pero siguen y siguen, y parece que no puedes bajar
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off
Oh, sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino
Oh, I know we've come a long way
Estamos cambiando dia a dia
We're changing day to day
Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños?
But tell me, where do the children play?
Bueno, has roto el cielo, los raspadores llenan el aire
Well you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
¿Pero seguirás construyendo más alto?
But will you keep on building higher
¿Hasta que no haya más espacio allí arriba?
'Til there's no more room up there?
¿Nos harás reír, nos harás llorar?
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
¿Nos dirá cuándo vivir, nos dirá cuándo morir?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?
Sé que hemos recorrido un largo camino
I know we've come a long way
Estamos cambiando dia a dia
We're changing day to day
Pero dime, ¿dónde juegan los niños?
But tell me, where do the children play?
Fuente: LyricFind
Compositores: Yusuf Islam
Essa música faz parte da nova novela das 9, com Aline Moraes e cauã Raimundo. Um lugar ao sol
❤
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
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
'Til 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?
❤👍
TU SEI UN DONO
TU SEI UN DONO
TU SEI UN DONO
...
ED IO NON RINGRAZIO TE !
MA RINGRAZIO IL MIO DIO IL MIO SIGNORE GESÙ CRISTO
CHE IN QUESTA VITA TI HO "'SENTITO"'.
{ PENSO COME FAREBBE PIACERE A TE.
COL CUORE. 〽️ imi'''.
CIAO AMICO MIO 🤝☮️
Reminds me of Steven Page from Barenaked Ladies
Pretty cute when young
That performance was in 1976 and we are still asking those same environmental questions in 2021, where do the children play?wake up governments
his voice changes a lot here
This was his LAST CONCERT
Azil le bruiteur vocal présent cette chanson au monde entier azil le bruiteur vocal akindouch abdallah code secret professionnel allah zeprexa abilify 28 12 1970 ❤maroc tiznit anzi
A love you cat stevens azil le bruiteur vocal akindouch abdallah code secret professionnel allah zeprexa abilify 28 12 1970 ❤maroc tiznit anzi
OH ! YEA YUSUF/CAT ! WHAT IS THE TRUE STORY BEHIND SAD LISA ! PLEASE ??,??? PEACE & LOVE. LISA
🔹🔹🔹☑️🔹🔹🔹
Like total Eisenhower's Oh they do the Dunes
Fly jumbo planes
And seek Refuge at State Rest Stops along the way *
They Sleep Pray & Play
Supak.
Don’t care for the symbolism in the background:(
But love Cat Stevens:)
First 👽
O
🤣🤣🤣🙃
Sadly i think of the kids suffering today
This was written almost 50 years ago...
And it has gotten worse since 1970.