Anyone over 40 who gives a damn about music will remember the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens. He made a lot of popular acoustic music in the late sixties and early seventies, including songs like, 'Oh Very Young' and, 'Wild World'. Like a lot of singers those days, his music was as much about the words as the melody. He had something to say.
After a religious conversion in 1977, he changed his name to Yusaf Islam and left the recording industry behind for more than two decades. He's since returned to write and perform music to communicate a message of political and religious tolerance.
This blog entry showcases the lyrics from the 1971 hit, 'Peace Train'. (I always thought Obama could have used this as an election theme song in 2008, had the artist not been somewhat controversial.)
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
Get your bags together,
go bring your good friends too
Cause it's getting nearer,
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
Cause out on the edge of darkness,
there rides a peace train
Oh peace train take this country,
come take me home again
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