Here's Google Books information about the 2008 book by Ric Masten, Going Out Dancing:

Troubadour poet and folk singer Ric Masten became a Unitarian Universalist minister in 1971. In his pioneer ministry, Masten has become known nationwide as a traveling musical ambassador of liberal religion. Fighting cancer since 1999, he keeps an online journal documenting his in a home that he built himself in the Palo Colorado Canyon in California's Big Sur country.

Diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in February 1999, Ric Masten has survived for nine years and counting. For decades, Masten's unique mix of minstrel ministry and poetic philosophy has challenged and inspired audiences in many settings conferences, colleges, schools, and churches across the country. These poems reveal his humorous, unflinching, and edgy take on mortality and living with illness.

Lyrics from the 2008 book, Going Out Dancing (page 1)

LET IT BE A DANCE
(Ric Masten)

Let it be a dance we do.
May I have this dance with you?
For the good times
and the bad times, too,
Let it be a dance.

Let a dancing song be heard.
Play the music, say the words,
and fill the sky with sailing birds.
Let it be a dance.
Learn to follow, learn to lead,
feel the rhythm, fill the need
to reap the harvest, plant the seed.
Let it be a dance.

Everybody turn and spin,
let your body learn to bend,
and, like a willow with the wind,
let it be a dance.
A child is born, the old must die;
a time for joy, a time to cry.
Take it as it passes by.
Let it be a dance.

Morning star comes out at night,
without the dark there is no light.
If nothing's wrong, then nothing's right.
Let it be a dance.
Let the sun shine, let it rain;
share the laughter, bare the pain,
and round and round we go again.
Let it be a dance.

Let it be a dance we do.
May I have this dance with you?
Through the good times
and the bad times, too,
let it be a dance.

Copyright Ric Masten 2008