Peace Train By Cat Stevens Presented by Jennifer

Peace Train By : Cat Stevens Presented by: Jennifer Pickering

PEACE TRAIN LYRICS 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 Now I've been smiling lately, thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be, something good has begun

PEACE TRAIN LYRICS CONT Oh peace train sounding louder Glide on the peace train Come on now peace train Yes, peace train holy roller Everyone jump upon the peace train Come on now peace train 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 Oh peace train sounding louder Glide on the peace train Come on now peace train

PEACE TRAIN LYRICS CONT Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss Cause out on the edge of darkness, there rides a peace train Oh peace train take this country, come take me home again Oh peace train sounding louder Glide on the peace train Come on now peace train Yes, peace train holy roller Everyone jump upon the peace train Come on peace train Yes, it's the peace train

Summary/ Meaning The song the Peace Train is a song about the Vietnam war and other wars. And how that when there are these wars that the community should come together and help each other.

HISTORICAL Cat Stevens is a song and a songwriter. But Cat Stevens isn’t his real name. Cat Stevens is a singer from Britain. In this lifetime he has sold millions of albums. He use to be a pop singer but then something happened when he was in his teens. This made he want to change from pop to folk. And he started singing new things and that changed his music and himself too. And changing his life also like his religion and name.

HIS RELIGION & NAME The reason why Cat changed his name was because he decided that he wanted to convert to a Islamic religion and his name reflects him and his religion. And also what he believes. When Cat changed his name and religion he quit his job as a singer. Back

Cat Stevens real name is Yusuf Islam. Cat Stevens is a stage name. He made his name Cat Stevens when he became a singer and began being very popular within the music community back

SOLDIERS This part of the song means that after the war is over or time for the soldiers come home. They will come home on a “peace train” or a period of peace after the war. NEXT

THE PEACE TRAIN The song the Peace Train is one of his popular songs. This song is important to Cat Stevens because it what’s he thought. It’s not something he just wrote and didn’t mean anything. It meant a lot to him because it was about wars and how there should be peace within the world. And that communities should come together and help each other through the hard time. Back

A Change of Career He changed his career when he got a sickness in his early years and that helped him look into his life and he saw that its not what he wanted. So he changed his name and religion. And his music wasn’t the same. It was more meaningful. Also since he had a lot of time in the hospital he had time to write songs. Songs that meant something to him. The songs that he wrote were some of his most remembered songs. BACK

LYRIC POEM Cat Steven wrote and sang the song the Peace Train. This song expresses his feelings about the Vietnam War with lyrics. And he uses his voice in the song to tell people what he thinks. Back

THEME The Peace Train has a theme in it. A theme is something that tells you the moral of the story and it is that you shouldn’t do what ever it takes to help each other. And that everyone should join together and help people who need it Back

Folk is a type of Genre. And a genre is a category of literature. It a type of music BACK

Repetition The Peace Train’s chorus is a type of repetition because it keeps repeating itself in the song BACK

COUPLET In the Peace Train, the song rhythms every two lines. And that makes this song has couplets in them. BACK

Citations Brouse, Daniel. “Peace Train. ” Peace Train The Cat Stevens Story. N. p. , n. d. Web. 16 May 2010. <http: //www. peace-train. com. au/>. This is a good source for information about the song the Peace Train by Cat Stevens. “Cat Stevens. ” Bio. N. p. , n. d. Web. 16 May 2010. <http: //www. thebiographychannel. co. uk/biographies /cat-stevens. html>. This is a website that tells you accurate information about Cat Stevens.

Citations Rogerson, Steve. “From Cat Stevens to Yusuf. ” Suite 101. com. N. p. , Mar. -Apr. 2010. Web. 16 May 2010. <http: //popmusic. suite 101. com/article. cfm/from-catstevens-to-yusuf>. Ruehl, Kim. “Peace Train. ” About. com. New York Times Company, n. d. Web. 16 May 2010. <http: //folkmusic. about. com/od/folksongs/qt/Peace. T rain. htm>. This website told me some information about Cat Stevens’ song Peace Train and what’s its about.

Citations Seel, Steve. “Today In Music History: Stephen Cat Yusuf Georgiou Islam Stevens. ” The Current Music Blog. 89. 3 The Current, July-Aug. 2009. Web. 16 May 2010. <http: //minnesota. publicradio. org/collections/special /columns/music_blog/archive/2009/07/today_in_mus ic_91. shtml>. A good website for some facts on Cat Stevens.