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* Songs - [[The Lord of the Dance (Sydney Carter)|The Lord of the Dance]], [[When I needed a neighbour]] |
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Sydney Bertram Carter was English Christian song-writer who died aged 89 in 2004. He was a [[Quaker]]. His songs include [[Lord of the Dance (Sydney Carter)|Lord of the Dance]].

He studied at Christ's Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex and Balliol College, Oxford, graduating in history in 1936. 

He was a pacifist and joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit on the outbreak of World War II and served in [[Egypt]], [[Palestine]] and [[Greece]].

He wrote the lyrics "Lord Of The Dance" in 1963, as an adaptation of Joseph Brackett's "Simple Gifts", and a tribute to Shaker music.