As Christmas carols go, “Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day” is barely in its teens. It first appeared in a collection published in 1833. You shouldn’t even give it the keys to the family car.
What I like about this
one is the metaphor of the Messiah’s life as a dance. (You may be more familiar
with the modern “Lord of the Dance”—and I do not mean that crypto-Celtic Michael
Flatley crap; I’m talking about the one set to the Shaker hymn, “Simple Gifts”.)
There’s a version by John Rutter; ix-nay on that. This one, from that old
reliable King’s College, Cambridge, Choir, is by John Gardner.
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