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 ?

Daisies are our silver,
Buttercups our gold:
This is all the treasure
We can have or hold.

It was bought on the morning
Of the day that he was born
Twas always his pleasure and pride

But it stopped
Short
Never to go again
When the old man died

Father
Gladly we greet you
Here come
Running to meet you
Please be
In us and near us
Hallowing our work and play.

Give me oil in my lamp
keep me burning
give me oil in my lamp, I pray…

My children loved that.
I always wondered about the third line

🎵Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell🎶

Then I imagine the author riffling through their rhyming dictionary - "Creweled? Duelled? Nothing bloody useful rhymes with 'jewelled'! Oh, hang on...
🎵Jetplanes meeting in the air to be refuelled🎵"

Huh?!
You had to admire the determination to crack on with "jewelled" and not just change the first line into something that rhymed with something that actually does make people think of Autumn.

Aw so many good ones!

I feel quite envious my parents got to watch us singing all of these. I remember feeling gutted not to hear any of these in my dc assemblies.

Ooh so many memories.

Did you have "the ink is black ... the page is white... together we learn to read and write to read and write."

Was it come and praise?

THe metre is 11 11 11 11 - if you have ahymnbook there will be a metrical index and you can find all hymns with the same metre - this one includes Away in a manger and Seek ye first, To GOd be the glory great things He hath done and O COme all ye Faithful,

Not sure all the tunes fit the words that well....

We sang “we plough the fields and scatter” at my cousins funeral- he was a true countryman.

I want “Fight the good fight” at mine.

We used to have 40 minutes of hymn practice on a Friday morning with the music teacher whilst the rest of the staff had a meeting when I was in prep.We had a game called "Breakfast" where every word beginining with e was eggs, b bacon s sausages and t toast. When you made a mistake you were out. The 5 tallest girls in year 6 sat in the bay window at the back of the hall and as people knocked others out they shuffled to the back until there were a dozen or so in the window. WHen a Knight won his spurs went

When a knight won his sausages in toast sausages of old
He was gallant and kind he was noble and bacon etc etc...

Not sure all the tunes fit the words that well...

Weirdly, we'd occasionally sing "There is a Green Hill Far Away" to the tune of Match of the Day.
We could hardly believe it the first time the teacher struck up on the piano.

The best one of all was ‘keep me travelling along with you’ makes me cry every time 😭

I thought it was a made up ditty as well and was surprised how good it was!
I think your line fits in well.

Without me googling what were these words?

always freaked me out thinking about the 'red shoes' Grimm story where they chopped off her feet and they kept dancing

So did I! We used to sing it and bounce on the sofa!

Hands together, softly so
Little eyes shut tight
Father just before we go
Hear our prayers tonight
We are all your children here
This is what we pray
Keep us while the night is here
And throughout the day

Aaaaaaa-men.

We’d sing this one after we’d put our chairs up at the end of the day, with our eyes closed and hands together. Very sweet nostalgia.

The dance settee, that is….

Colours of day, dawn into the mind,
The sun has come up, the night is behind…

I saw the grass I saw the trees and the boats along the shore. I saw the faces of many men that I'd never seen before. And I turned away, yes I turned away.For I had seen the perfect face of a real and proper man. A man who brought me from the dark into light when life began. " or something like that. Anyone know that one?

A knight win his spurs was my favourite hymn.

And before lunch we’d say,

Thank you for the world so sweet
Thank you for the food we eat
Thank you for the birds that sing
Thank you Lord, for everything!

Kind of in keeping with 70s, the dance settee and the brown chairs, we always used to sing, “To be a Pilchard”.

I’m off to find my Tupperware lunchbox with the road signs on the back ….

I loved “Hills of the North, rejoice!
River and Mountain stream.
Hark to the advent voice
Valleys and lowland sing… “
it’s a very stirring melody and the lyrics are urgent and uplifting. I’m an atheist, btw.

Oh gosh, "when a knight won his spurs"! That brings back so many memories. I remember having to sing that song, one of my favourites, when auditioning for a place in the junior school choir in 1967!

Love this thread.
I haven't thought about some of these in years. Lord of the dance was one of my favourites - does anyone remember 'loves just like a magic penny, hold it tight and you won't have any '

What a lovely thread OP!
Total atheist here but from a staunch Baptist family and I MISS singing hymns!

Our end of term assembly always had a rousing Jerusalem!!

'And did those feet, in ancient times,
Walk upon England's mountain green...?'

But my favourites were 'Dear Lord and Father of Mankind' The words are so beautiful , even as a teen I found them moving.

And 'Be still my Soul' (sung to the tune Finlandia) ' Be still my soul, the winds and waves still know the voice of him who ruled them while he dwelt below.'