Where Do The Children Play

WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY?- Cat Stevens

 

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 'cos 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 lorryloads pumping petrol gas

And you make them long, and you make them tough

But they just go on and on, and it seems 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?

When you crack the sky, scrapers fill the air

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--hey

But tell me, where do the children play?

Do doot do, do de do doot do

Do de do doot do do de do do

MAIN PATTERN:

D G (almost)

E ---2-0-2--0------0---0---------0-

B ---3-3-3----3------3---3-(3)-3---

G ---2-2-2-----------0---0---------

D -0-------------------------------

A ---------------------------------

E --------------3------------------

NOTE: Generally pick the pattern on all D G sections and strum in other

places, but listen to the record to catch it all.

(from Tea for the Tillerman, 1970)

(sent by Harlan at harlant@hawaii.edu)