"Cat Stevens's New Album: I was PARTLY Right (But Thankfully, not TOTALLY So)!"

On May 28th, I blogged here about Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) and his remaking of his classic "TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN" album here on its 50th anniversary. That blog may be referred to HERE...

http://chetitorial.blogspot.com/2020/05/cat-stevens-yusuf-releasing-tea-for.html

In that blog, I pointed out how I feared the remake / "reimagining" / re-release of his great song "On The Road To Find Out" would eliminate the reference to "The Good Book" (universally recognized as referring to the BIBLE) and replace it with "The Quran," now that he's a MUSLIM.

Well, the ALBUM is not out yet but I got an e-mail that a second promotional VIDEO from the album has been released (see image above...click to enlarge.) 

And, the e-mail features the song I was concerned about.... "On The Road To Find Out." 

I was PARTLY right, the lyrics HAVE been changed....

Notice how "THE Good Book" has been changed to "A good book."

However, thankfully I was not TOTALLY right...the words have NOT been changed to where THE QURAN has replaced "THE GOOD BOOK."

Just so you know, I pre-ordered the album BEFORE I knew whether it would be plugging the Islamic "holy book" or not....but I'm certainly glad it's NOT.  (The album comes out September 18th.)

The only way ANY of us will "kick out the devil's sin" is to read "THE Good Book" and get saved.....not to pick up "A good book."

I'm looking forward to getting "Tea for the Tillerman 2" next month (Lord Willing) and glad to find out in advance about this one song, and how it's been altered.

P.S., Speaking of "altered," he WAS being referred to as "Cat Stevens / Yusuf" but notice how they've SWITCHED it, in the first photo, up above!! SLICK.