An Early Encounter with Latin

Recently I have been reflecting that there was a time in my life when I did NOT know Latin. I began studying Latin as a junior in high school, so for the first sixteen years of my life, I was Latinless. One of my first encounters with Latin was the song O Caritas by Cat Stevens, a song from the album Catch Bull at Four which was released in the early 1970s. The song is hardly uplifting, but I liked it then and I still like it, and how many rock songs can you sing that are in Latin? You can hear the song and watch English lyrics here, and then check out the Latin lyrics.