Consumer Guide Album

Cat Stevens: Catch Bull at Four [A&M, 1972]
Reading the lyric of "The Boy With the Moon and Star on His Head," I was impressed by how unpretentiously it simulated early English poetry. But when I listened--a widely recommended method for that perception of songs--I noticed affectations like "the naked earth beneath us and the universe above," and winced at the next-to-last couplet, which ends with a weak word for the sake of a weak rhyme. Then I browsed in Norman Ault's anthology of Elizabethan lyrics. Forget it, Cat. C