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'''{{Infobox_Contents |topic_name = Sydney Carter |subtopics = [[Quaker]]s* Songs by - [[The Lord of the Dance (Sydney Carter''')|The Lord of the Dance]], [[When I needed a neighbour]] |opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |}}
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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. ==Quotes== Sydney Carter, about his song Lord of the Dance:: ''I did not think the churches would like it at all. I thought many people would find it pretty far flown, probably heretical and anyway dubiously Christian. But in fact people did sing it and, unknown to me, it touched a chord... Anyway, it's the sort of Christianity I believe in... I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best. I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus... Whether Jesus ever leaped in Galilee to the rhythm of a pipe or drum I do not know. We are told that David danced (and as an act of worship too), so it is not impossible. The fact that many Christians have regarded dancing as a bit ungodly (in a church, at any rate) does not mean that Jesus did.'' ==Links==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Carter Wikipedia - Sydney Carter]*[http://www.stainer.co.uk/carter.html Official site - Sydney Carter] {{returnto}} [[Song writers]] [[Category:Christian songwriters]]
