Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

from Christmas 2006 by The Joy of Science

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Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
I would my true love did so chance
To see the legend of my play
To call my true love to my dance

I was born to a virgin girl
Inside her I began this dance
Thus was I knit to man's nature
To call my true love to my dance

In a manger laid and wrapped
So very poor, this was my chance
Betwixt an ox and silly ass
To call my true love to my dance

Sing! Oh! My love!
Sing! Oh! My love!
This I’ve done for my true love

Then as a man I was baptized
The Holy Ghost on me did glance
My Father’s voice heard from above
Heaven shook from his joyful dance

Into the desert I was led
There I prayed without substance
The Devil bade me make stones bread
To steal you my love from this dance

Sing! Oh! My love!
Sing! Oh! My love!
This I’ve done for my true love

I drew you close I called you mine
I whispered to you little lamb
But you choose darkness instead
Judged me to die and end our dance

Then on the cross I bleed and died
Your spear glanced my heart inside
It poured out water mixed with blood
Flowing now that you may dance

Sing! Oh! My love!
Sing! Oh! My love!
This I’ve done for my true love

Up from hell I made a way
For my love's deliverance,
And rose again on the third day
Conquered now that dead may dance

Then to heaven I did ascend,
Now in my Father’s presence
On the right hand of His love
That you might come and join our dance

Sing! Oh! My love!
Sing! Oh! My love!
This I’ve done for my true love

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from Christmas 2006, released December 25, 2006
Alec, Colleen

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