Who put the colours in the rainbow?

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..who put the fish into the sea?..

Anyone care to share their favourite primary school hyms?

I loved he's got the whole world in his hands. And the lord of the dance. We also did the "i was cold I was naked" song, which was always started with gleeful giggles until the headmistress did her serious cough and made us start again

^ forgot to say we did actions for the whole world in his hands, and to this day I can't sing it (not that I often do) without doing the accompanying circle-hand movements and jazz hands

"poorly applied sticky back plastic covering it, all ridged and bubbled."

Are you Valerie Singleton, HoneysuckIejasmine?

You shall go out with joy and be lead fourth in peace.

Sing, Hosanna!

Sing Hosannah
Make me a channel of your peace... Or something..

Love this thread - has taken me right back! Autumn Days was the absolute best. I can't believe how many of these I can still remember all the words to 30 years later. And for those you can't...

And the mountains and the sky shall break forth before you,
there’ll be shouts of joy and the trees of the field shall clap, shall clap their hands

Lovvvvvvved this

And the mountains and the sky shall break forth before you,
there’ll be shouts of joy and the trees of the field shall clap, shall clap their hands

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I’ve been trying to remember that song for years! Was my ultimate favourite, ever.

@RomanyRoots big fat leeks standing up in order

Oh my god, i can hear at least fifty percent of these being belted out in my head as I read this, just ever so slightly out of tune...!

Don't think I can remember any that haven't been posted yet?

We used to sing “and the mountains and the hills shall break wind before you” and think we were hilarious.

I love this thread. Autumn Days was my favourite.
Did anyone else sing The Family of Man? Something about “the family of man keeps growing, the family of man keeps sowing the seeds of a new life every day”

And The Ink is Black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write...

Aah I remember lots of these. No book for us though, rather the excitement of someone getting to be 'OHP monitor' and switching on the overhead projector, where the music teacher had handwritten out the words on a sheet of acetate.

That one about 'if I was a butterfly I'd say thankyou' rings a bell but I can't remember.

I am not Christian so haven't sing a hymn in years and years, I'm hoping that ds gets to belt them out at school!

Oh I’ve just remembered “from the tiny ant, to the ele-PHANT” and “water of life” which was the same time as Rupert the Bear

To be a Pilgrim.

We often sang a hymn at middle school, sung to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel, was very odd. Can still remember some of it:

Twenty Fags, a jar of ale
A quid each way on Monkey
That’s the way the money goes:
Hard luck the hungry!

Millions spent on our defence
Millions more on space probes
Our priorities are right:
Me, mine and our folks.

I'm sure there was one song about God's gifts with the strange line : He gave me lips, To eat my chips..." !

MartaHallard considering I had to Google her, no. Konnie Huq was more my time.

Bread of Heaven! When we got that one in assembly even the cool kids at the back sang at the top of their voices - it sounded like Twickenham on Rugby World Cup Final day! When it went "Feed me now and evermore" everyone would go "evermore!"

Onward Christian Soldiers could get pretty epic too

Loving this!

@CurlsLDN if I were a butterfly I'd thank you Lord for giving me wings, and if I were a fish in the sea I'd thank you Lord that I could swim, and if I were a fuzzy wuzzy bear I'd thank you Lord for my fuzzy wuzzy hair, but I just wanted to to thank you for making me me. COS YOU (must be bellowed) gave me a heart and you gave me a smile, you gave me Jesus and you made me your child, so I just want to thank you for making me me.

There were actions. Why do I remember this? Literally have not thought about this song for 30 years!

We had the OHP and the acetate as well. And a slightly out of tune piano...

Loved so many of these.

Another favourite that I don't think has been mentioned yet is this:

Chorus:
All God's creatures got a place in the choir
Some sing low, some sing higher,
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire,
And some just clap their hands, their paws, or anything they got.

Verse 1
Listen to the bass it's the one at the bottom where the bullfrog croaks and the hippopotamus moans and groans in the old tattoo (?) and the old cow just goes MOOOOOOOO!

Some of these are a blast from the past. I had forgotten about milk bottle tops and paper bags, used to love that one, although Lord of the Dance was my all time favourite at primary school

All good games of rounders are sent from heaven above,

Now thank the Lord, Now thank the Lord,

For all the bats and balls”
(We Plough The Fields and Scatter, 1996 edition)

“Angels in bright raincoats, rolled the stone away” (Thine Be The Glory, 1993 edition)

We had to sing “Think of a world without any flowers” almost every morning. I had a vivid imagination. It devastated me.

There was one called Jubilate.

“Jubilatte! Everybod-ay, praise the Lord in all his ways and-“

Can’t remember the rest but it was terribly exciting, very jaunty.

I hated school so I still get a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach when I hear Morning Has Broken, Colours of Day or Give Me Joy in My Heart.

Glad that I live am I
That the sky is blue
Glad that I live am I
At the fall of dew
All that we need to do be we low or high
Is to see that we grow
Nearer the sky

From infant school in the early 60s. At junior school I loved 'Hills of the north rejoice' and the Easter hymn 'Jesus Christ is risen today' Haaaaaaaleloooyaaa .