By : Cat StevensPresented 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 CONTOh 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 CONTNow 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/ MeaningThe 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.

HISTORICALCat 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 & NAMEThe 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.

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Cat StevensCat 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

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SOLDIERSThis 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.

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THE PEACE TRAINThe 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.

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A Change of CareerHe 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.

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LYRIC POEMCat 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.

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THEMEThe 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

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FolkFolk is a type of Genre. And a genre is a

category of literature. It a type of music

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RepetitionThe Peace Train’s chorus is a type of repetition

because it keeps repeating itself in the song

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COUPLETIn the Peace Train, the song rhythms every

two lines. And that makes this song has couplets in them.

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CitationsBrouse, 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.

CitationsRogerson, Steve. “From Cat Stevens to

Yusuf.” Suite 101.com. N.p., Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. 16 May 2010. <http://popmusic.suite101.com/ article.cfm/ from-cat-stevens-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/ PeaceTrain.htm>. This website told me some information about Cat Stevens’ song Peace Train and what’s its about.

CitationsSeel, 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_music_91.shtml>. A good website for some facts on Cat Stevens.