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  • Me and my dads song :)

  • Thumbed down for dishonest/mistaken title. I like honest titles... alot

  • I love it. It made me cry. I wish I had a relationship with my dad

  • This song is so catchy and up beat, but it is sad

  • CoD Elite? That was the ad...

  • this song explains so much cuz mii dad nd mii brother dnt really talk 2 eachother all dat much cuz he is a marine nd mii dad always at work nd wen mii brother comes back hes usually trinaing with other marines nd mii dad trying 2 find da time again like before!!!! I MISS OUR FAMILY!!!

  • Once again, anoter freaking Chapin version, Where the hell is the stevens one

  • @LordRuric Chapin wrote and made this song so how do you relate it to cat stevens?

  • This song by Harry Chapin fits my situation perfectly. I remember doing it to my father back in the early 70s, and in the 2000s, my son did it to me. Everytime I hear it, it still draws tears.

  • This reminds Me of my Daddy. He Drives a tractor trailor and he's only home 2 days out of the month and I ALWAYS miss him SO much :'(

  • ahoy

  • Love this song...fantastic job!!

  • MAn I luv this song :DDD

  • My favorite old song!! LOVE!! <3

  • D--daddy?

  • HARRY FUCKING CHAPIN! what a god damn moron haha xD sounds nothing like Cat

    Stevens....O.o

  • Sorry to say, but this Chaplin.

  • awwwww..... i've never actually heard this entire song all the way through until now and my eyes started to tear up..... that is so sad! .... on the upside, the next time i want to spend time with my daddy and he says no for whatever reason imma sing this (: im sure he knows the song.

  • this has to be one of the saddest father son songs just like the living years by mike and the mechanics

  • Have you seen donkey sing this in sherk the third? HILARIOUS!

  • Um, this is not Cat Stevens. It is Harry Chaplin. It doesn't even remotely sound like Cat Stevens. Thank you @malissoucy1.

  • to latreeeeeeeeeeevo afto to tragoudi

  • cat stevens loves his dog

    

  • ya

  • This is NOT Cat Stevens singing... not sure why this was even posted as a "Cat Stevens classic". It even says that the artist is Harry Chapin, who did sing the song, and made it a hit. His ex-wife wrote the song.

    Sounds NOTHING like Cat Stevens.... just sayin' ... might want to check your facts before posting something like that. :)

  • @malisoucy1 Thank you for pointing that out. It's ridiculous.

  • @malisoucy1 Well sir/ma'am, i was high on heroin when i posted this video, also my parents perished due to an unexplainable combustion inside of their brains, so excuse me for being so delusional and thinking it was Cat Stevens, I'd change it, but frankly, I don't care for youtube, facebook or other products of the human imbecilic society, or humanity itself for that matter. so my sincerest apologies for your offended state I must have been the catalyst to. I'm still not gonna change it ;)

  • @TheHighFiveJive so there of you do not care for such human products and or life ? i pressume?

  • @TheHighFiveJive HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HIGH ON HOREBN

  • @TheHighFiveJive

    You said "I don't care for youtube, facebook or other products of the human imbecilic society yada yada yada"

    Then why did you post IN THE VIDEO "Please Comment". Clearly you care! It's the most desperate and sad thing I've ever seen. Get down off your pedestal.

  • I am so happy I never had to go through everything most of you guys had to, my dad never missed out on my special events and i love him as much as anything in the world and my only dream is that I will be as great a dad as he is.

  • When I was little, I told my dad I wanted to grow up to be just like him...I was puzzled by the look on his face, as if he was not happy about that prospect. I understand why now. He had separated himself emotionally from his children after my mother left him and I had not realized it until much later in my life. As a soldier, I spend a great deal of time away from my family and have missed out on major events in my childrens lives and it kills me to hear my 3 year old wish for me to come home.

  • my dad wrote me a birthday letter when i turned 21,this letter was the best present i ever got from my father no money or gift cards like the years before just a letter telling me how i reminded him of himself and how proud he was of me ,and how everytime he hears this song it reminds him of us and it took me 10 years to understand but i do .....were gonna have a good time then dad

  • My dad was always busy still don't know him and haven't spoken to him in years, very sad. He could never see he had a great son.

  • this song reminds me of my dad when i was younger... he was eorking late every night and having to be flown to montreal cause hes a technician so his work would fly him there.. now he has another job and that was like 6 years ago... im now 15 and my perants are now seperated.. divorced a few months ago... im living with my dad and grandmother and my 17 year old sister is living with my mom

  • Wikipedia is never a reliable source because ANYONE to change ANYTHING they want.

  • hmm why is it that i've always thought this song was by cat stevens as well? thanks for informing me tho all!

  • I KNOw Right

  • HARRY CHAPIN DID THIS!!! NOT CAT STEVENS

  • @TheVinylBird LIES YOU IDIOT!

  • @LeeWongChineseMafia2 look it up on Wikipedia, and let's see who's the idiot

  • @LeeWongChineseMafia2 to be fair in the download link it says its Harry Chapin

  • its FLU, not flew you idiot!!

  • A-mazing! Read all the lyrics and it brought tears to my eyes. One of the best sons EVER!

  • this song is soo sad that it brings me tears almost every time...

  • i knew this song for 5 years and everytime i hear it i feel sad cuz my dad is always like busy with his new gf my dad and mom split and i hardly see him when i do he doesnt rlly pay attiontion to me so ya my grade 4 teacher teached me and my class this song he loved to sing like us we were his best class but then i moved to a new place i miss my old life were my dad and mom were together but thats okay i guess things happen for a reason i guess...........

  • Cat Stevens didn't ever do Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin did. Cat Stevens released an album called "Cat's Cradle" but he never did the song Cat's in the Cradle. Written and preformed by Harry Chapin. I think it was also Ugly Kid Joe who later did a fairly popular cover of this song, but not Cat Stevens.

  • Lol my mom about shit herself when she heard this song cause i am just like my dad

  • This Harry Chopin. Not Cat Stevens

  • go to rapidshare and you can d/l an mp3 of stevens singing this song

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  • Epic, Life beautifully depicted in one song.

  • The person singing this song IS Harry Chapin. He also wrote it. Saw him in concert with Cheech & Chong, of all people. Still remember him singing it.

  • Wikipedia said he DID perform the song also, altho they did give credit ti Harry Chapin for writing it!!

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  • Cats In the Cradle- Cat Stevens Lyrics ....Then why was it posted this way on YouTube?

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  • Another version of "Cat's in the Cradle" by Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens. huh...didn't know there were 2 on YouTube.

  • Strange...another version of "cat's in the cradle" by Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens. DIdn't know there were 2 on YouTube.

  • Cat Stevens never wrote this song never performed this song and is extemely annoyed about the confusion. He wrote Father and son, Moonshadow and various other classics. But not this one.

  • god damn. I havent heard this song and years and appearently I STILL cry everytime I hear it.

  • I can remember playing this song for my dad,,, told him I always wished we would have spend more time together. And I can remember what he said to me, He said: "It's too late for us", I said,,"it's never too late unless you wanted it to be" And to this day,,he does not know how much he hurt me.......Why is some men good father and other so so, I love this love Cat, thanks for it

  • I found this song while praticing my guitar, never heard it before.. im 22, lives 2 miles from my dad and i see him at most 10 times a year.. this song made me spil a tear for the first time in my adult life.. dont even know why

  • Oh my goood! I <3 this song(: Its touching

  • i don't know my mom or dad

  • In Jesus, I miss my dad, but God is Father to the fatherless.

    and pro life is so very very important.

    Merry Christmas.

  • @yf777a Pro-Choice...Happy Holidays!

  • For all you YOUNG FATER'S out there...spend time with your kids, because they remember.

    I didnt............ and he remembers.

  • A cat once went up to someone called Steven and said "my cradle's stuck in the sidewalk"

    To which the person said "So what? I'm having trouble with my turtle"

  • LOVE IT

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  • Flu.

  • I think I heard an Ugly Cat called Steven singing this once!

  • @theloudhalo yea ur gay..cat stevens is the best

  • i remember the old times with my dad, i whish i could change it back :'(

  • no one has cat stevens singing cats in the cradle?

  • Cat Stevens? LOL

  • Ah yes. Another song with a lesson saying, "time is precious".

    Good tune though. Brings back memories

  • I've got to say, this is a great song. Jammin.

  • Yes it is Harry Chapin song Cat's in the Cradle

  • My grandma hates my mom, which automaticly means that my brothers and I mean nothing to her. She treats us like dirt. My dad is always at work, all day, all week. When i was little my mom worked full time, so I remember growing up with babysitters and church members watching us. This song reminds me of that.

  • My Parents spend all there time with me so this doesnt happen to me, and my mom crys when she hears this song cause her parents were never there for her...

  • Wondrous.

    

  • It's funny how everyone wants a kid but they don't stop to think about the important time it takes to raise them. If you don't have time for a puppy why do you think you would have time for a kid?

  • I love this song. every time I listen to it it reminds me of how my dad is busy in heaven and I'm busy living my life down here on earth... But it makes me smile because even if he's gone I want to be sort of like him but in my own way! <3

  • @bublegoose12 that's what I'm always thinking when I listen to this song.

  • You spelled "flu" wrong. You wrote "flew" when the lyrics said that his kids have the flu.

  • Reminds me fo me and my dad dont see him much expecially growing up i never saw him at all and he doesnt even think i'm his even tho i look just like him... but he's an acoholic and i'll probz never see him again

  • What the fuck. 

  • This song never fails to depress me :( I love it though! Thanks for sharing! :)

  • that's so sad

  • ONE oF MY FAVORITE SONGS!! LEARNED IT AT CAMP! MY FRIEND AND I STILL REMEMBER THE LYRICS< I WENT AND LEARNED AT 9 AND NOW I"M 18!

  • This is a really good song!!!!

  • It's Harry Chapin. Cat Stevens never did this song.

  • Damn it people this is Harry Chapin! NOT Cat Stevens... damn!

  • ITS HARRY FUCKIN CHAPLIN DIPSHITS @armoredildo and who fucking cares if your 13 and you listen to the good stuff. so does maybe a third of the generation its getting old to see people post crap like that just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND ENJOY THE MUSIC

  • Want comments eh ?

    1. Not Cat Stevens

    2. Maker of the video can't spell Flu

    3. Still a good song

  • @wornout13 thats cat stevens that so is lol

  • weird, at 2:27 i don't hear Cat Stevens singing "please comment" .. could just be me though

  • My dad used to sing this to me when I was young and i never understood the lyrics. Now that Im older I regret everyday I didnt want to spend with him.. loveyou and miss you dad!

  • correct your label for this. Cat Stevens has stated he has never performed this song.

  • this song makes me cry!

    

  • This is not a Cat Stevens song! This is the original version, written and performed by Harry Chapin.

  • I thought for years Cat Stevens at least covered this song at some stage. Turns out those few respondents on this page are definately correct. I lost a fairly substantial bet on this song at a drunken BBQ recently. Thanks Harry Chapin ! I wish you were a bit better known ! Would never of made that damn bet !!!!!

  • that's correct this is not Cat Stevens:

    check wikipedia

  • Thank you for this, it is also my all time favorite songs!!

  • Spend time and attention on young people. They can use your good attention to think better about themselves and their world. And you will benefit directly, immediately, from their clarity and intelligence and zest.

  • that was Harry Chapin, Cat Stevens never wrote it or revcorded or sang it.

    it was written by Harry and Sandy Chapin (from a poem Sandy wrote)

  • That's Harry Chapin.

  • this reminds me of weird Al Yankovic.

  • im from Belfast and this song was played here as a song of the troubles and shows how we grew up following our parents into a life of paramilitary organisations such as the IRA UVF and will always remind me of the life that myself and others i know have in Belfast. SAD SAD TIMES

  • So in a sence im kind of the the boy.

  • I wish my dad would spend with me. Its kind of like on the song.

  • @Freezer1111ify Send your Dad this song.....

  • one day me and my dad were in the car drivin around and this song came on and he didnt realize it cause he was focused on driving, and i started crying, he said son why are you crying? i said i dont ever want this to happen to us dad, weve spend alotta weekends hangin out since then, love ya dad

  • Harry chaplin, fail

  • This is 'Cats In The Cradle' with and by Harry Chapin.

  • well... that's a sad song

  • i kinda wish someone would actually post a CAT STEVENS version of this song but anyway its still a good song:)

  • It almost makes me want to cry D':

  • Makes me sad D':

  • EPIC :D

  • this is harry chapin. FAIL.

  • always makes me cry :'(

  • @MyKafkaesqueLife I'm sure your loyalty and dedication will be rewarded with peace of mind, you were a good person, you'll only ever have one father, and I'm sure through his own regret at the end he saw your love and that is what carried him across.

    No matter how much he was there for me I always fought my father. He was a mans man, never showed emotion, the last time I spoke to him, I finally told him I loved him, he just smiled and said take care of your family, don't worry about me.

  • I miss Harry Chapin!

  • Harry Chapin NOT Cat Stevens

  • .......thats deep..........

  • this song is sad because it hits the mark. young fathers please stop and take time for your children, my sons are 37 and 35, and time just flew by. charlie lone wolfe

  • *flu not flew

  • @talonsperson my OCD streak thanks you.

  • AWESOME!

  • This is no one else than Harry Chapin, unforgotten!

  • *hassle

  • <33333333333333333333333333333­33333333333333333 this song is awsome i get godebumps when i listen and its sooooooooooooooooooo sad

  • @GrimReaper30.....Youre right the Ugly Kid Joe Version is the best cover Ive heard.

  • Come on people!! Really!! This is not Cat Stevens!! Thi is Harry Chapin. It doesnt even sound like Cat!!

  • You should also check out the Ugly Kid Joe version of this song

  • wish my boys would listen and understand this song

  • Isn't this song by Harry Chapin?...

  • @cr4zych1ldfr34k A lot of people think this is Cat Stevens, but this is by Harry Chapin.

  • @Kruezoraxe Thank you, you are one of the few smart people on here

  • When I think of this song I think of my and I. This song describes exactly what is happening to us. Its very sad when I think about it.

  • im 13 and i love cat stevens and all the old musicians because the old stuff is way better than the stupid new stuff

  • Music is music

  • @armoredildo ikr

  • @armoredildo too bad harry chapin did it. epic fail on your "13" soul kid.

  • @armoredildo I call bullshit

  • @armoredildo You know how u like him well...... he was greek otherdox then became a musilem he had a party when 911 happened.When Osama and the other douche bags died he cried dude i likED him and BTW im greek

  • @kopper1966 I think you must have read The Daily Mail, and yet Believed their crap!. Yousuf Islam//Cat Stevens is a man of peace and an ex-headmaster. So were you at that party? Were you with him when he cried? NO. You are just spouting 33rd-hand Nonsense which is why WARS keep happening and cannot be stopped.

    If anyone is a "Douche Bag" then it's you. What beautiful music have YOU created? Try subtracting YOU from this world; would we miss you more than Harry Chapin or Cat? NO? Then Shut Up.

  • @armoredildo not to put a damper on your love for classic music, because I do as well, but this isn't cat stevens, this is Harry Chapin

  • @armoredildo not Cat Stevens. this is Harry Chapin song. Cat Steven never did this song.

  • @armoredildo right on!

  • @armoredildo but for the record this is harry chapin singing

  • @armoredildo you sir are the new generation of hipster

  • For some reason this song popped into my head, and keeps on playing in my head. The only way to stop it? Go to the source...

  • <3

  • I love this song. I have always made the effort to spend time with my dad. He doesn't want anything to do with me and recently he ad my mother have cut all their kids out of their lives, after all we have done for them. All I can do now is make sure I spend allot of time with my own son and make sure things don't go that way between me and him.

  • @IamElysiam i'm so sorry that you're in that situation.

  • i love this song but it is sad

    poor kid didnt get time with his dad :(

  • My Dad use to sing this song to me just be4 going to bed every night!!! :)

  • i still consider myself young, i try to spread songs like these to my friends who listen to "snoop dogg" but not a whole lot of younger people seem to enjoy these kinds of songs anymore. ill keep em alive as long as i am. and thanks for posting this too

  • So my mom told me I need to listen to this song and I need to come around more. :(

  • its a really good song but like how the kid back stabs him and does what he did to him

  • this is not cat stevens singing, harry chapin

  • @csgoldengirl1 you troll stop trolling this is a good song so nobody cares except trolls. --_--