Music Monday: “Where Do The Children Play?” – Cat Stevens
Posted By RichC on May 23, 2022
While reading in the evenings I’m often sitting with my headphones on listening to music while Brenda is watching one of her streaming series … I think she is watching 
the Bridgerton TV series on Netflix before we cancel our streaming service.
Anyway, while listening to SiriusXM’s The Bridge channel on my iPhone, I found myself semi-singing under-my-breath to the Yusuf Islam – Cat Stevens song “Where Do The Children Play?” from the 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman (a previous Cat Stevens post on Music Monday). Brenda was of course grinning at me so had to refrain from embarrassing myself any further. 😊
| Cat Stevens – “Where Do The Children Play?” | 1970 |
Where Do The Children Play? – Cat Stevens (lyrics below)
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?
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