The Lord of The Dance - Tommy Makem [6/8]

Great song! nice whistle palying!
1973 Festival Folk

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[rossmcl177]

I dont really like religious songs. However I have always had a soft spot for this one - partly because it is very catchy, but also it's quite inoffensive. Most religious songs ram it down your throat and say that you MUST believe. Ths one is just gently suggesting it. "I'll live in you IF you'll live in me..." I like that. It makes it much gentler and much more enjoyable, for this agnostic anyway.

Also I remember the song from my childhood. It was nice then and still is.

[cazzy1968]

used to sing this at school .....still gets my feet tapping and my heart going.... oh what memories

[GeorgeVeld]

@MacbookProWizard :) this song is about the Lord Jesus and the dance of life it is religious listen to the words

[Nuiceltico]

great Celtic and christian fusion ...may your god go with you

[KittyStarlight]

Actually it kinda reminds me of "for God so loved the world" and then "as God so loved us, let us also love one another"...only more JOYOUS. (As God so loved the world, let us all rejoice and sing and dance and have FUN. ^__^ No need to be solemn or holier-than-thou or anything like that...just DANCE. ^____^)

[KittyStarlight]

@tyrantsfaceisred This song is (to me anyway) much greater than most modern religious music...while also BEING modern religious music (okay, not THAT modern, but 20th-century and popular in churches). You'll find this in your local Catholic (or Protestant) church hymnal AND on your favorite Irish tapes and things like that (it's not really Irish but it sure sounds Irish). That's what I love about it...it expresses so perfectly/joyously "It's just me, God, I love you so let's all DANCE!!!" ^___^

[KittyStarlight]

@ MacbookProWizard: I love it so much because it's BOTH. ^__^

(And also..."Lord of the Dance" is actually a pagan term for "Lord of all creation" or something similar..."the dance" is kind of the circle of life or something of that sort...I love how this song *combines* a lot of neat ideas all together...it's kind of like putting love of dancing and love of the whole world in a Christian context...to me it means that God is all one God and Jesus IS the pagan Lord of the Dance...pretty special.)

[KittyStarlight]

@rossmcl177 I adore this song because (to me) it combines all of the most beloved elements of "I am the Christian God" with "I am the God of everything, Christian and everything else". And because it's just pure *joy*. It says the sorts of things that Jesus-the-lovable-rebel would've said...not Jesus-the-modern-churchy-Chris­tian but just that independent spirit coming down to us through the ages and then finally ending up sounding Irish. ^_^ Jesus for all time, Jesus for everyone. And *fun*. ^_^

[StormyTrooper]

Dance then, wherever you may be.

[MacbookProWizard]

This isn't a religious song. It's just a song about a fabulous man... dancing.

[newfieedmonton]

by what a voice

[tyrantsfaceisred]

this song > modern religious music (not that i listen to any lol)