In Songs of Praise Discussed, the editor, Percy Dearmer, explains that as there was need for a hymn to give thanks for each day, English poet and children's author Eleanor Farjeon had been "asked to make a poem to fit the lovely Scottish tune." A slight variation on the original hymn, also written by Eleanor Farjeon, can be found in the form of a poem contributed to the anthology Children's Bells, under Farjeon's new title, "A Morning Song (For the First Day of Spring)", published by Oxford University Press in 1957.
"Morning Has Broken", Oct.The hymn originally appeared in the second edition of Songs of Praise (published in 1931), to the tune "Bunessan", composed in the Scottish Islands. Morning Has Broken is a very spiritual song, just as most of Cat's work are.I love this transcription because it challenged me as a guitarist to emulate the piano that Stevens uses as his main instrument in the song. especially since he later changed his name to Yusuf Muslim. I learned the song and I would venture in saying that I probably sang it many more times than Cat Stevens himself did. and Cat Stevens was the singer that had everybody enamored with his fabulous hit " Father and Son". I had to fit in and being a classical player was good but if you really wanted to blend in and "be someone" you had to sing. A young Sophomore son of Italian immigrants who had literally "just arrived" in Paraguay, our new homeland. The year was 1976 and I had just returned from school. This amazing singer has literally changed my life.
Cat Stevens, one of all time greatest song writers, had this fabulous song in store for the world to enjoy: Morning has Broken.
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