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Dance of Faith: Christ's Journey

1) The document is a song about Jesus Christ being "the Lord of the Dance" who has danced since the beginning of creation and continues dancing to bring people to God. 2) The song describes Jesus dancing at various points in his life and ministry on earth like healing the lame on the Sabbath and being crucified. 3) It portrays Jesus rising from death and saying that he is "the Lord of the Dance" who lives in all people if they live in him and will lead people in dance wherever they are.

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Dance of Faith: Christ's Journey

1) The document is a song about Jesus Christ being "the Lord of the Dance" who has danced since the beginning of creation and continues dancing to bring people to God. 2) The song describes Jesus dancing at various points in his life and ministry on earth like healing the lame on the Sabbath and being crucified. 3) It portrays Jesus rising from death and saying that he is "the Lord of the Dance" who lives in all people if they live in him and will lead people in dance wherever they are.

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CHRIST’S GRACIOUS LIFE

261 Lord of the Dance


G Em Bm Em
Unison

1. I danced in the morn ing when the world was be gun, and I
2. I danced for the scribe and the Phar i see, but they
3. I danced on the Sab bath when I cured the lame, the
4. I danced on a Fri day and the sky turned black; it’s
5. They cut me down and I leapt up high,

Am Am D7

danced in the moon and the stars and the sun, and I
would not dance and they would not fol low me; I
ho ly peo ple said it was a shame; they
hard to dance with the dev il on your back; they
I am the life that ’ll nev er, nev er die; I’ll

G Em Bm Em

came down from heav en and I danced on the earth. At


danced for the fish er men, for James and John; they
whipped and they stripped and they hung me high; and they
bur ied my bod y and they thought I’d gone, but
live in you if you’ll live in me;

WORDS: Sydney Carter, 1963 LORD OF THE DANCE


MUSIC: 19th cent. Shaker tune; adapt. by Sydney Carter, 1963; Irr. with Refrain
harm. by Gary Alan Smith, 1988
© 1963 Stainer & Bell, Ltd., admin. by Hope Publishing Company
LIFE AND TEACHING
Refrain
Am D7 C G G Bm

Beth le hem I had my birth.


came to me and the dance went on.
left me there on a cross to die. Dance, then, wher
I am the dance and I still go on.
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he.

Bm Em G

ev er you may be; I am the Lord of the

Am D G C

Dance, said he. And I’ll lead you all wher

G D7 G Am D7 G C G

ev er you may be, and I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he.

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