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 ?

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

Loved elastics and clapping.

And skipping:
Jelly on a plate
Jelly on a plate
Wibbly wobbly
Wibbly wobbly
Jelly on a plate

We also had one of those jumping in and jumping out skipping songs that went something like
Vote, vote, vote for LaMarschallin
She's the one we all adore...
(then something about now she's no good and we'll have to replace her - can't quite remember that bit)
So we don't want LaMarschallin any more!
So I'd jump out and the next person would jump in.

‘the ink is black, the page is white’
@CupOfCoffeePlease during the first lockdown (when clearly going a bit batshit crazy) in homeschooling this is the song that came back to me! I taught it to my DC (well the abridged version that I remembered.) & they still sometimes break out into it 😆

I also lament the loss of these songs, they were so lovely to sing at primary school. In “oil in my lamp’ they would have a group of us repeating ‘burning burning’ while the others would sing on. Sadly the songs my DC sing at primary are not memorable at all, certainly none of the bangers listed in this thread!

I was hungry and thirsty were you there, were you there? I was hungry and thirsty were you there?

I always had the feeling that there were some really good banging hymns but we were never allowed to sing them, we only ever got to sing the crappy annoying ones. The knight and his spurs was a very rare occurrence. It was usually the stupid flipping jet planes meeting in the air, or the bloody who put the colours in the rainbow. I loathed them. I would would goldfish along instead of singing properly. To my five year self they felt really infantilising! All thing bright and beautiful (all creatures grunt and smell) was probably the best one we got to sing regularly. And it seems to have got even worse now. The songs they sung at dc’s CofE primary were utter crap.

I do have fond memories of the music we used to walk into assembly to though. There was an old record player at the front of the hall. For the whole 7 years I was there, they only had two records - Handel’s Water Music, or John Williams’ Spanish guitar.

This is so lovely but heartbreaking.

That takes me back - when I was 3 or 4 I thought that the first line was "Hands together softly soap" and that you had tot shut your eyes tight to stop gettting the soap in them.......

When I started my teaching career back in the early 1990s I lived in a little terraced house..I had a lovely little old lady who lived next door and I used to love listening to her singing along to Songs of Praise on a Sunday tea time as I prepared all my lessons for the week..🎵

Not RTFT as not had time so I'm sure this guy has been mentioned already, but just in case he hasn't.

If you like these old school bangers, check out James B Partridge on TikTok.

He does actual concerts of them!

As others have said unless you are a regular church goer at an old fashioned church children do not learn these magnificent hymns. Such a shame; nowadays they are just songs; easy, modern and often with little majesty or grace. Can you imagine funerals when no one can sing appropriate and uplifting hymns.

We used to sing them in assembly at school. Was so sad when I discovered that they barely had assembly at the schools my children went to, and they rarely sang in them. I went to private school in the 70s/80s though

If your children like to sing, why not teach them a few?

DD got quite into "When I needed a neighbour".

My dad and grandad taught me a large range of music hall and other silly songs, although music hall wasn't really a thing any more in the 70s and 80s.

Were you responding to my post above yours, or just in general @Phineyj ?

My children are adults and do enjoy a sing a long, but I was really just reminiscing about bellowing out Onward Christian Soldiers and some of the others mentioned on this thread during our daily assembly when I was a child 😊

In general.

Quite a few people have expressed nostalgia and I think they should get singing!

Absolutely! 🎶