Monday Music: Morning Has Broken

In 1971, Cat Stevens awakened the public to a beautiful hymn from The Presbyterian Hymnal. The hymn, first published in 1931, was written by Eleanor Farjeon and set to the Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan." Stevens made the song popular, though he erroneously pronounced "re-creation" as "recreation." An understandable mistake since hymnals typically will hyphenate words to fit the notes. One could see it and not realize that it is the actual hyphenated word, re-creation. Nevertheless, it is still a timelessly beautiful song.

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