Please, listen to the whole song.

I'm re-submitting this song with a few changes that I had planned on making earlier. When I submitted the first version, everyone voted low and no one told me why. People were just hearing the opening and judging the whole song by it and then leaving before listening to the entire thing. So I added a few more verses and added to the opening. I hope that doesn't happen again, I tried to make the opening more interesting. Well, we'll see...

--original commentary--
This is a common song to be played in school bands.

Inspired by Canon Rock by Jerry C.

Just listen.

+*. Special Ed .*+

Enjoy if you enjoy it, hate if you hate it.

--lyrics--
Here is the definitive authorised version of the words:

I danced in the morning
When the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon
And the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven
And I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem
I had my birth.

Dance, then, 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 scribe
And the pharisee,
But they would not dance
And they wouldn't follow me.
I danced for the fishermen,
For James and John -
They came with me
And the Dance went on.

Chorus

I danced on the Sabbath
And I cured the lame;
The holy people
Said it was a shame.
They whipped and they stripped
And they hung me on high,
And they left me there
On a Cross to die.

Chorus

I danced on a Friday
When the sky turned black -
It's hard to dance
With the devil on your back.
They buried my body
And they thought I'd gone,
But I am the Dance,
And I still go on.

Chorus

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.

Chorus

Copyright 1963 Stainer & Bell Ltd. London, England

please note that there's not a chance you will sing along to my version...
it's going about 4X as fast...