Irish Song- Lord of the Dance (lyrics)

This is a lyrics video for a song called "Lord of the Dance".




I'm sorry if some of the lyrics seem a bit jerky, I guess this song is a bit too fast for windows media player.

I added some annotations for the lyrics that were hard to read.

I made this video because there doesn't seem to be any good lyrics videos for this song.

Here are the lyrics in full, in case they are too hard to read.

I danced in the morning when the world was young
I danced in the Moon & the Stars & the Sun
I came down from Heaven & I danced on Earth
At Bethlehem I had my birth:

Dance , dance wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!
And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be
And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said He!


I danced for the scribes & the pharisees
They wouldn't dance. They wouldn't follow me
I danced for the fishermen, James & John
They came with me so the Dance went on:

Dance , dance wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!
And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be
And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said He!

I danced on the Sabbath & I cured the lame
The holy people said it was a shame!
They whipped, they stripped, they hung me high
Left me there on the cross to die!

Dance , dance wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!
And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be
And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said He!

I danced on a Friday when the world turned black
It's hard to dance with the devil on your back
They buried my body & they thought I'd gone
But I am the Dance & I still go on!

Dance , dance wherever you may be
I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!
And I'll lead you all, wherever you may be
And I'll lead you all in the Dance, said He!

They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the Life that'll never, never die!
I'll live in you if you'll live in Me -
I am the Lord of the Dance, said He!

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• lord of the dance
• irish song
• dance
• irish
• jesus
• dancing sheep

[wisewolfbane]

God bless the Irish :D

[BandiTx1800]

Rapper Steen brought me here :D

[Balzaz]

"the holy people" refers to the jews, not the pope.

[lovearmin123456789]

@BandiTx1800 haha xD 

[isabellalovescookies]

Shaun das Schaf!! Shaun the sheep!! ♥

[samsmith92samsmith]

@fairplaynationalist2 You wouldn't get too many people that generous nowadays lol; I didn't know this was actually used in the musical, I thought they just shared a name.

It's strange that so many people get up on national pride, claiming this as their own etc, when besides that both the Irish and English have such an amazing history on music. The Irish have even managed to win the Eurovision song contest like 7 times, while the English only managed 5 lol.

[wouthezx]

thumbs up if Steen brought you here!

[fairplaynationalist2]

@fairplaynationalist2

The Lord of the Dance producers tookj the song and lyrics as a cornerstone of the musical but without any acknowledgement to Sydney Carter who in an impressive act of Christian charity never sued before his death in 2004

[fairplaynationalist2]

@samsmith92samsmith

Amazing how people talk with such conviction despite knowing they are wrong. Lord of the dance, the exact lyrics sang in this video was written in 1967 by Sydney Carter who is English. The tune is a 19th Century American Shaker tune although it bears close resemblance to Byrd's 16th century tune. Look it up, the truth is all out there. It doesn't matter where it originates except when people falsely (and rather sadly) claim it as indicative of National pride

[herbivore007]

STEEN - BIER!

[bshayhoe]

remember singing this @ school