Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens (cover-live by Bill Sharkey)

Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens, 1971). Live cover performance by Bill Sharkey, Home Studio, Hawaii Kai, HI. 2022-09-20. "Keeping the Oldies & Classics Alive"

"Morning Has Broken," lyrics written by Eleanor Farjeon in 1931, while Cat Stevens and Rick Wakeman provided the musical arrangements, was Steven's highest charting single, along with "Another Saturday Night," both hitting the no 6 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1972 and 1974 respectively (E. Hogan, Allmusic, 2022; Whitburn, 2013). According to Stevens, "I accidentally fell upon the song when I was going through a slightly dry period and I needed another song or two for Teaser And The Firecat. I came across this hymn book, found this one song, and thought, this is good. I put the chords to it and then it started becoming associated with me" (dianaleaghmatthews, 2017). As a studio musician, in his pre-Yes days, Rick Wakeman was asked to help arrange the piano parts for the song and performed on the recording (songfacts, 2022).

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Lyrics:

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

Mine is the sunlight
Mine is the morning
Born of the one light Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning
God's recreation of the new day

Morning has broken like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken like the first bird
Praise for the singing
Praise for the morning
Praise for them springing fresh from the world