{"id":79,"date":"2005-12-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2005\/12\/best-purloined-christmas-song.html"},"modified":"2005-12-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T12:00:00","slug":"best-purloined-christmas-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2005\/12\/best-purloined-christmas-song.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Purloined Christmas Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>Silly me, I always thought singer Cat Stevens (now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yusufislam.org.uk\/\" target=\"_new\">Yusuf Islam <\/a>) had written the melody behind &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00004T9W4\/qid=1134664936\/sr=8-5\/ref=pd_bbs_5\/102-3919353-0397756?v=glance&amp;s=music&amp;n=507846\" target=\"_new\">Morning Has Broken<\/a>,&#8221; a hit in 1970. The song is, in fact, an old Gaelic Christmas hymn called &#8220;Christ in the Manger.&#8221; You&#8217;ll find the song&#8217;s history piecemeal in posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/detail.php?id=289\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a> at Songfacts.com.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silly me, I always thought singer Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam ) had written the melody behind &#8220;Morning Has Broken,&#8221; a hit in 1970. The song is, in fact, an old Gaelic Christmas hymn called &#8220;Christ in the Manger.&#8221; You&#8217;ll find the song&#8217;s history piecemeal in posts here at Songfacts.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best Purloined Christmas Song - Chattering Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2005\/12\/best-purloined-christmas-song.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Purloined Christmas Song - Chattering Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Silly me, I always thought singer Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam ) had written the melody behind &#8220;Morning Has Broken,&#8221; a hit in 1970. 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