Morning Morgantown is a 1970 folk-rock song by Joni Mitchell, and the opening track on her album Ladies of the Canyon. The lyric sketches a dawn in Morgantown, West Virginia, with shops opening, milk trucks and coffee at a bakery, and quiet streets, before enlarging into a universal morning scene with lines like “Morning Morgantown, Buy your dreams a dollar down, Morning any town you name, Morning’s just the same.” The track features Mitchell’s clear vocal delivery and bright guitar, fitting her early 1970s singer-songwriter style. It helped set the tone for Ladies of the Canyon, an album that became platinum and remains a key early masterpiece in Mitchell’s catalog.
