Dance With Jesus Song6/26/2021
Later, he continues this idea: Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on.Refrain: Dance, then, wherever you may be, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, And Ill lead you all, wherever you may be, And Ill lead you all in the Dance, said he.
It became a sacred equivalent for songs by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s, including Where have all the flowers gone and To everything turn (later made even more popular by Peter, Paul, and Mary), as well as Bob Dylans Blowin in the wind (1962). While the direct even, for some, sacrilegious language accompanied by the folk acoustic guitar bordered on heresy for some; for others, these songs were a breath of fresh air. Lord of the Dance brought this sound and spirit into the church, especially in services designed to reach young people. Sympathizing with the Quakers, he served in an ambulance unit with the Society of Friends during World War II. Carter began composing songs in the 1950s and 1960s, many of which remain very popular in the schools of Great Britain to this day. Tomorrow will be my dancing day, a seventeenth-century English carol, provided an obvious model for this famous hymn. An earlier medieval carol also explored the allegory of the dance as a metaphor for humanitys relationship with Christ. Carter adapted a melody from the Shaker dance tune Simple Gifts. The first four stanzas appeared in the Student Christian Congress Hymns (1963), and the five-stanza version in 9 Songs or Ballads (1964). Carters Green Print for Song (1974) suggests that he wrote the words first and then adapted the tune of Simple Gifts to the text later. Simple Gifts has been identified as a quintessential American folk tune by composer Aaron Copeland (1900-1990), who quoted the tune as the climax of his famous symphonic work Appalachian Spring (1944). Its most famous use beyond the church is as a Celtic dance for Michael Flatleys world-famous show, Lord of the Dance. The origins of the tune are not Celtic, however, but thoroughly American. The opening lines of this first-person account of Christs life have been thought by some to contain a hint of paganism which, mixed with Christianity, makes it attractive to those of ambiguous religious beliefs or none at all. While inspired by the life of Jesus, Carter implied that the Hindu God Shiva as Nataraja (Shivas dancing pose), a statue that sat on his desk, also played a role in the songs conception. The choice of an adapted Shaker tune for the melody sometimes called the shaking Quakers who were known for their vigorous dancing during their rituals rounds out the dance theme. ![]() He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. The second stanza mentions that the scribes and Pharisees would not join in with the dance, but the fishermen,... James and John did continue the dance with the Dancer. The third stanza has been viewed by some as anti-Semitic the holy people said is was a shame leading to Christs crucifixion. The final stanza captures the untainted joy of the Resurrection when the dance is complete and all are invited Ill live in you if you live in me.
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