Morning Has Broken

[Larrygallis]

Nothing beats listening to a choir sing a hymn

[IKILLANGELZ]

shit

[MisterNifty]

I really like being a white person. When we sing, we sound harmless.

[Bananianiown]

@MisterNifty Yeah if you guys ever actually sang anything. I don't know about you, but all the white people in my ward don't sing- all I ever hear is *mumble mumble mumble* when it comes to singing hymns.

[MisterNifty]

@Bananianiown Indeed. Yet, what if we didn't sing? What if we just lived harmless instead? What if we pulled up our pants and showed up to work everyday and on time? And what if life was like a beautiful suburb with the pretty birds singing and fluttering about as every good boy and girl said "Yes Mam, I will do my homework! And, yes Sir, I will eat my brocolli!"

[GreatSamoana]

What a wonderful hymn...well sung and well created!

[shalom43]

Too controlled...what I'd expect from a Mormon arrangement.

[coronet72]

Calm thy heart and mind. Peace be with you.

[spintobear]

Typical Mormon plagiarism--Growing up in Utah as a mormon, and since moving away, I have seen so many situations where mormons try to take credit for others works. Hints of Spading perhaps???

[joshstoph]

I don't think they're trying to take credit for this song. It's a very old, beautiful song that John Rutter arranged for choral. I think this version is lovely.

[epitt22]

praise God you have left, only one in 40 do. don't like this version either. Looking for one.

[eltrompo83]

@spintobear I think you are generalizing unfairly. I'm a member and my experience is that we appreciate the works of our own certainly, but also of the great ones outside of the church, like Rutter, Wilcox, and the like. Just because a few bad apples exist doesn't mean the entire batch is spoiled. I'm a huge fan of all composers and arrangers.

[1950Bob]

Wilberg did NOT write it! The hymn originally appeared in the second edition of Songs of Praise in 1931 to the tune "Bunessan", arranged by the composer Martin Shaw. Eleanor Farjeon had been "asked to make a poem to fit the lovely gaelic tune". A slight variation on the original hymn, also written by Farjeon, can be found in the anthology Children's Bells, under the title "A Morning Song. Stevens included an acoustic version on his 1971 album Teaser and the Firecat.

[Maratini]

Could be wrong, but sounds an awful lot like the melody Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) wrote for lyrics by Eleanor Farjeon.

[Hubbub9999]

Cat Stevens did not write the music either. It is a gaelic tune called "Bunessan".

[joshstoph]

It is the same song, but Cat Stevens did not write it. It had already been around for a long time.

[symplemplam]

Actually is: A beautiful rendition of the hymn by MACK WILBERG

[CarpentersCh]

Credit has been given . . Thanks.

[obviologist]

basically what he is telling you is that this song is not a Hymn and it was not written by Mac Wilberg- it is a Cat Stevens Folk song, that was arranged (by permission) by Mac Wilberg.

[Hubbub9999]

Cat Stevens did not write "Morning Has Broken." It is a hymn sung in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were written by the English poet, Eleanor Farjeon, and set to an old gaelic tune "Bunnessan." (That's a town in Scotland)

[TheMattgaulke]

This is way better than any other rendition! Credit!!!