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This song aired on July 09, 2023 of Music & The Spoken Word.

Music: Traditional Gaelic melody
Text: Eleanor Farjeon
Orchestration: Mack Wilberg

Eleanor Farjeon, the lyricist for “Morning Has Broken,” was a popular English children’s author and poet in the early 20th century. As a new edition of the Anglican hymnal Songs of Praise was being prepared in the late 1920s, Farjeon was asked by the editorial committee (which included Ralph Vaughan Williams) to write new lyrics for a Scottish folk and hymn tune, “Bunessan.” This tune had traditionally been used for a Christmas carol and had recently been paired with several other hymn texts, as well, none of which met Vaughan Williams’s exacting standards. After publication, “Morning Has Broken” was widely sung in British schools before becoming a global hit for Cat Stevens and Rick Wakeman in 1971. Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of “Morning Has Broken” highlights the dance-like simplicity of the original Gaelic tune.

(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 Word!

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! Mind is the morning
Born of the one light Eden saw play!
Praise with elation, praise ev’ry morning’
God’s re-creation of the new day!