I used to listen to this album with my mother,(she is no longer with us now) boy how it brought back special memories. Thank you, I was so excited when my CD arrived. I smile every time I listen to it.

"Longer boats are coming to win us,. This is a song that stays in your mind, reverberating, long after you have heard it. One of the finest albums of its timeand it still wears well, sounding fresh after all these years. But tell me, where do the children play.".

And if I find my hard headed woman. Again, rather spare instrumentation, with Stevens himself on guitar and keyboard. These innocent lines are juxtaposed with signs of progress, such as jumbo jets, "roads over fresh green grass," skyscrapers filling the air. A marvel of a song. One who will take me for myself. "I know we've come a long way,. And so many other fine songs, such as "Wild World," "Sad Lisa," "Miles from Nowhere," "But I Might Die Tonight," "Father and son," and so on.

Then, the marvelous "Hard Headed Woman." The opening lines:. I will need nobody else.". "I'm looking for a hard headed woman,.

Simple instrumentation that supports the words and singing. Song after song lures the listener in, trying to make out the lyrics as the stories spin out. We're changing day by day.

Perhaps my favorite cut on the CD"Longer Boats." There is the hypnotic recurring line:. Coming to win us, they're coming to win us.". The CD starts off with the wonderful "Where Do All the Children Play." Key lines that typify this song:.

For lots of people listening to popular music several decades ago, one of the most enchanting albums of all was Cat Stevens' "Tea for the Tillerman." The eponymous song closed out a musical treasure of reflective, thoughtful, and insightful songs. This kind of partner Stevens longs for, as opposed to "I know many fine feathered friends, but their friendliness depends on how you do.".

The CD is vibrant and memory filled. Takes me back to my youth. I have been searching for this particular Cat Stevens album for years. I love the relaxing music.

It's a top-notch production by a talented and spiritually minded artist. It's a minor-key piano and chamber orchestra dirge about a friend who is trapped in her own sadness. Wild World is probably Cat's most enduring and popular song. I Might Die Tonight is reflective and spiritually themed.

It's a great one, too, and very thought provoking, but as I listen to it today it's hard to believe that back in 1970, we actually thought that the world's movers and shakers would actually stop to consider Cat's question. I like to listen to Tea For The Tillerman when I'm the mood for his mature, spiritual, and somewhat somber sound. Most of the songs are built around Cat's mellow acoustic guitar, but some are piano-based and orchestrated. It'll brighten your spirits if you're feeling down, but it might also make you wonder what ever happened to all the optimistic spiritual enthusiasm that used to be in America. We're changing day to day. Tea For The Tillerman is an album that's best listened to when you're in a solemn mood or you just feel like hearing something thoughtful and mellow. It's a lonely and resigned song, sung by someone who's being left by a lover and even though he is heartbroken, he does his best to give friendly advice to the one who's leaving him behind.

But tell me, where do the children play. I know we've come a long way. The album opens with Where Do The Children Play, and this is one of the album's most popular songs. I didn't care much for Cat's music when this, and his other most popular albums, came out. But since then, I've checked out some Cat Stevens music here and there, and I can relate now and then.

I like the somber and sacred Sad Lisa, too. Longer Boats is a hopeful chant-like song that has a catchy melody, and Hard Headed Woman is Stevens' search for a woman who will "make me do my best". I was into other types of rock music at the time. Cat Stevens' Tea For The Tillerman (1970) is Cat's best album, and it's also an album that I like quite a bit. It's the only one I've heard on the radio in the last decade, anyway.