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21 Oct 01 - 06:47 PM (#576978) Subject: dance like no one's watching From: twister I had always heard this saying love like it's never going to hurt and dance like no one's watching. Then at a party last night someone was saying a much longer version that rymed. Does anyone know the poem's name or where I could find it?? Don't know authors name. Thanks -Twist |
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21 Oct 01 - 06:54 PM (#576993) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: John Routledge Sorry I can't help but the philosophy is beautiful John |
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21 Oct 01 - 06:58 PM (#576999) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: ddw I'm pretty certain that's a Grit Laskin tune. Wouldn't bet the farm on it, though. david |
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21 Oct 01 - 07:15 PM (#577015) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: ray bucknell There's a song sung by Kathy Mattea called Come from the Heart, and part of the lyric goes, "You've gotta sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, you've gotta dance like nobody's watching, it's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work." Ray |
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21 Oct 01 - 07:34 PM (#577029) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: Midchuck Lyrics are here. Writer is given as Susanna Clark (Mrs. Guy)and Richard Leigh. Peter. |
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21 Oct 01 - 08:21 PM (#577064) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: ddw So much for my daily edification.... I'm pretty sure Grit sang this the last time he was in town and I thought it was one of his. Nice tune. david |
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22 Oct 01 - 01:09 AM (#577182) Subject: Lyr Add: COME FROM THE HEART (Clark & Leigh) From: Genie Come From The Heart (Susanna Clark & Richard Leigh)
When I was a young man my daddy told me
Chorus:
Now here is the one thing that I keep forgetting Chorus |
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22 Oct 01 - 05:28 PM (#577579) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: GUEST,MudWeasel Garnet Rogers does a great cover of this tune. But I'm drawing a blank on which album it's on. -MudWeasel |
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22 Oct 01 - 09:24 PM (#577776) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: Burke I don't know it as a song, but the longer saying I heard was: Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening and live like it's heaven on earth! A Google search turns up that it's by —William Purkey.
I also turned up an Irish proverb: |
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13 Apr 04 - 03:01 AM (#1160508) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching From: Joe Offer This quote came up in our pastor's Easter sermon, which I heard twice this weekend because I had to sing at three Masses. Anyhow, the pastor's quote was just a little different - and he attributed it to William Shakespeare. I don't know if I would believe it originated in Shakespeare, but I'm constantly surprised by the familiar phrases that originated in Shakespeare. What about this one? Can somebody tie this to a quote from Shakespeare? Or should I not believe the Good Father? -Joe Offer- |
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13 Apr 04 - 01:59 PM (#1161030) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Heart From: Marje I'm certain it's not Shakespeare, not unless it's been extensively paraphrased. I'm also pretty sure it's not an Irish proverb, unless it's been translated from th Irish language by an American, for the same reason: that use of "like" to mean "as if" or "as though" is normal enough in colloquial speech in England nowadays, but it's a relatively recent import from US English. There was a nice twisted version of this that someone used to use as a sig, along the lines of: Love like you don't need the money Dance like you'll never be hurt (I forget the rest but it must have involved taking further liberties with the original). Maybe it was someone here? Marje |
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14 Apr 04 - 01:36 PM (#1161580) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Hea From: Clinton Hammond "Garnet Rogers does a great cover of this tune. But I'm drawing a blank on which album it's on." At A High Window... Track 2... |
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14 Apr 04 - 03:08 PM (#1161658) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Heart From: GUEST,chinmusic Guy Clark has recorded this wonderful tune on his album, Old friends. |
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14 Apr 04 - 03:15 PM (#1161661) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Hea From: Clinton Hammond Which is exactly where Garnet says he learned it from! :-) |
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14 Apr 04 - 04:21 PM (#1161719) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Heart From: CapriUni Anyhow, the pastor's quote was just a little different - and he attributed it to William Shakespeare. Do you remember a bit of the pastor's wording, Joe? I love Shakespeare, but I don't recognize this from any of the plays or sonnets... but then again, that good ol' boy Bill had his own unique way of putting things, didn't he? And he may have expressed similiar sentiments in different words. |
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14 Apr 04 - 08:32 PM (#1161902) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Heart From: Joe Offer I think the pastor's quote was this one, posted above:
Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening and live like it's heaven on earth! To me, the source of the words will always be Kathy Mattea and her beautiful voice, even though she isn't the one who wrote them. -Joe Offer- |
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15 Apr 04 - 11:11 AM (#1162402) Subject: RE: dance like no one's watching/Come from the Heart From: CapriUni Well, if those are the lines your pastor used, I'm pretty sure it's not Shakespeare. It's the wrong meter to have come from either the plays or the sonnets, for one thing... But at least, he did attribute it to a William, even if he got the surname mixed up! ;-) Shakespeare or not, it's still lovely -- and true! and if everyone lived as if it were Heaven on Earth, it would be! |
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09 Jun 12 - 12:34 AM (#3361164) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Come from the Heart (S Clark & R Leigh) From: Genie Yes, Joe, Kathy Mattea's version of "Come From The Heart" is the only recording I've ever heard of those lines, but the lyrics to the song are as I posted above, with the last line of the chorus being "It's got to come from the heart if you want it to work." |