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Punctuation Mark

If "Father and Son" is the last
important number on Cat
Steven's album, the title song, "Tea
For The Tillerman" closes out like
a happy punctuation mark - more
than a period, yet less than an
exclamation mark of completion.
Its one-minute, five-line finis is
rather like what one would expect
form an ecstatic ampersand (&
WOW).