I’ve lived a largely Cat Stevens-free life, but Mandy Simon has hooked me on the Ricky Gervais comedy Extras, and Cat Stevens’ ‘Tea For The Tillerman’ is its glorious theme tune. I once let the DVD menu play for half an hour just so I could hear the song over and over. God is it great; God, it reminds you, is great.
Oh Lord For That Happy Day |
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| By: Spencer Ackerman Friday August 1, 2008 11:15 am | |



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It’s also almost exactly one minute long, so you can sing it to yourself to time stuff like conditioner and eggs.
Into White
Bring tea for the tillerman
Steak for the sun
Wine for the women who made the rain come
Seagulls sing your hearts away
cause while the sinners sin, the children play
Oh lord how they play and play
For that happy day, for that happy day
–Cat Stevens
The entire “album” — such an outdated word — is great. One of the few epiphanic experiences of my youth that holds up.