When a Knight won his spurs in the stories of old...

[TheTecknician]

...He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold...

Anyone care to add a line or two or more ?

And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun....

And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth.

I came down from heaven and danced on the Earth
At Bethlehem I had my birth

(When my aged aunt, who had been a primary school teacher had to move in to a full nursing home for dementia, we got her CDs of assembly songs and popular hymns for children - recognising music is sometimes one of the last things to go. The crowds sang all the old revolutionary songs outside Mandela's home in the last days of his life - they can be powerful anchors)

Dance then, wherever you may be
For I am the lord of the dance said he....

And I’ll lead you all wherever you may be.

I loved singing hymns in school. I have no singing voice at all but it didn’t matter in a hall full of kids.

For I am the Lord of the dance said he

My favourite hymn along with
'Daisies are our silver, buttercups our gold...'

I danced in the evening 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

This is all the treasure, we can have or hold

I love this song.

I loved that! Thanks for the memory!

I always found lord of the dance slightly creepy for some reason.

I think given the time of year it's time for...

We plough the fields and scatter, the good seed on the land...

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell.
Jetplanes meeting in the air to be refuelled.
All these thing I love so well....

So I'll never forgeeeeeeeeet
No I'll never forgeeeeeeeeet

I thought it was steer as in horse given he's already holding a lance

I didn’t realise this was a hymn. My apologies for contributing with what I thought was the next line in a made up ditty.

We plough the fields and scatter, the good seed on the land.
And it is fed and watered by God's almighty hand

Nostalgia! It's probably 55 years since I last heard those at primary school.
Do they still sing hymns at school? My DC did up to 2008

Don't seem to, they sing songs but not hymns iyswim.

I demanded Jerusalem fory wedding
Vicar was all "you're imagining a heavy male choir blah blah blah"
I wasn't. I was imagining a couple of hundred teenage girls. I love that hymn

My brother thought it was about someone breaking his arm. He referred to it as "When a Knight broke his arm".
We eventually decided it was the "shield on his arm". We think someone must have broken their arm in his class or something, and a teacher helpfully described the cast as "a shield on their arm". 🤣🤣🤣

Whenever I lose/misplace/forget my phone charger I am unable to stop myself launching into a rousing rendition of “No charger have I…”

Ah, when I was small I thought the words were 'I am the Lord of the dance Settee' 😂

Or when the bike breaks "my chains fell off, my wheels ran heart was free..."

I liked the old version of the last verse of "He who would true valour see"

"Hobgoblin nor foul fiend
can daunt his spirit:
he knows he at the end
shall life inherit.
Then fancies fly away,
he’ll fear not what men say,
he’ll labour night and day
to be a pilgrim."

We used to live near a pub called "The Hobgoblin" and I used to always think of that. Although when they got new landlords they changed the name to something totally disappointing like "The King's head".