Where do the children play? - Cat Stevens

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Where Do the Children Play? is a song by British folk-rock musician Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam. It was the opening track of the album Tea for the Tillerman, released in 1970.

The song reflects awareness of the turmoil of the late 1960s and the issues involved; war, urban sprawl, poverty, ecological disaster, and the future of humankind. The same themes and concerns are repeated later in many of his songs. Indeed the lyrics are those of a man watching innovation from an acceptable point of view but however is asking himself if we are not forgetting essentials as repeated in the chorus: We're changing day to day, but tell me, where do the children play?

The song was used for the soundtrack of the 1971 movie, Harold and Maude. The film, directed by Hal Ashby and written by Colin Higgins, shows a scene during the song, where one of the lead characters, Harold, is driving, and then, the camera, from above, shows him driving past first one little white grave stone, and then pans out to a large area of the same identical war-time gravestones, until, panning even further, the number of little tiny white graves is nearly overwhelming, and underscores the point of the song.

In 2005 he recorded it with Dolly Parton on the Dolly Parton album Those Were the Days.

Scenes from: Harold and Maude (1971)
Directed by: Hal Ashby
Produced by: Colin Higgins and Charles B. Mulvehill
Written by: Colin Higgins
Starring: Ruth Gordon (Maude) and Bud Cort (Harold)
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures

Cat Stevens on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Stevens

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusuf_Islam

http://www.yusufislam.org.uk/

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