Anyone in their 50s remember this from primary school??

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I’m 58 and I remember putting on a play in primary school all about the wooden horse of Troy.

It had songs - it might have just been a series of songs now I think of it but there could have been spoken parts too.

Im assuming it wasn’t just our school but nobody I’ve ever met seems to remember it.

Only asking because the songs have been known to lodge themselves in my brain as ear worms from time to time 😁

Isn't Inchworm Alice in Wonderland ? 2 times 2 is 4, 4 times 4 is 8 etc..?

Been singing it in my head ever since the start of this thread!

I also had an LP of Wendy Craig reading Beatrix Potter stories. Anyone else?

Oh and another LP with various children’s songs on… Ugly Duckling, Little White Bull…

This one!!

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Yes to the Wendy Craig LP

Yes to Wendy Craig and hans Anderson. And my personal favourite Felicity Kendal reading My Naughty Little Sister.

@malbecfan my son is now being taught violin by teachers that were around in my day and taught my friends....there is lots of reminiscing.

I fondly remember all my music teacher. I especially remember Mr Kitson - the new head teacher - teaching us "On Ilkey Moor Bar Tat" and "Oh let's drink a drink a drink"

Ninevah City was the city of sin
The jazzin and the jiving made a terrible din
Beat groups playing the rock and the roll
And the Lord when he heard it said "Bless my soul"

Jonah, Jonah, listen to me Jonah
Listen while I tell you of a plan I have in mind
A city dancing, dancing and romancing,
All to obviously to virtue must be blind
Take my warning, early in the morning
As early as you feel inclinec

Sorry.
.just seen someone beate to the first half!

Not sure if this is the Daniel lions den one, but I remember some Nebuchadnezzar lyrics:

Nebuchadnezzar was the king of babylon,
When he got (married?), there was such a carry-on

something something

In the furnace the fires were lit
Then the king said “This is it,
“Shadrach meshach and abednego,
Into the furnace you will go…”
In they went in their coats and hats
There they walked around
Though the fire was terribly hot
They were not burned…

Also this Sweeney Todd one:

I’m Sweeney Todd the barber,
An evil soul I harbour,
I runs a little business cutting hair and other things
I makes a tidy packet
From running this nice racket
I’m always happy in my work and this is what I sings…

Cutting it fine, cutting it fine
I always gives the gents a nice close shave
Polish them off, polish them off,
The richer they are, the more I am a knave!

Illustrated by the great David McKee of Mr Benn, Elmer, and King Rollo fame ❤️❤️

Not the play but in assembly we used to sing - Lily the Pink
which I googled and it’s a medicine for period pains

I did watch Thirller and Mary Rose being raised. I have feel horror of also not being allowed out to play until you answered a times table correctly.
And hair growing out of the wall (sure it was something to with plaster stuff but hey Ho it scarfed us)

Not that play but I remember one we did in Junior schoor which featured something about the River Thames. I can still hear the tune but the only words I really remember are something about bells and then '...... guardian of the royal Thames!'

We did the Daniel Jazz.
I'm 53.

I now have "Darius the Mede was a king and a wonder" going rounding my head, thanks.

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We did the Pied Piper. I still remember some of the songs. I think lots of Bristol schools were doing it. 1989 ish.

I’m (nearly) 40 but yes! We did a play each year in primary one year was about Helen in Troy and there was a song about her falling in love with another boy.

there was also another about things being gone if we kill them off?!? A song about missing them when they are gone and Mrs fizzy keeping busy with her arasol sprays.

l’m 54 & I certainly don’t remember that the only plays we ever did at school were religious one around Christmas time sadly I think it would have been great fun to have done a better variation for subjects.

We did Peter Pan, The Sound of Music and one about space where I was an astronaut and had to sit in a pushchair with a tin foil covered cardboard box over me, the 2 spacemen had to push me round various planets, but I had to man the missions from inside the pushchair because once I was boxed in I couldn’t get out until the end! This was in 1977 I think!

Oh my goodness, we didn’t do this at school, but we had it on tape at home and I’ve been trying to rediscover it for years - the songs have been stuck in my head all my life!

”R A M E S E S! Is he the greatest? Yes yes yes! I’m Rameses, I’m the the one to obey, I’m Rameses, better do what I say, get down on your knees for Rameses, he’s the top man in the land.”

and a beautiful song about the land flowing with milk and honey.

I had Wendy Craig reading Beatrix Potter stories on cassette!

We did one that had a song about a Trojan Horse:

”Gotta build a Trojan horse,
Gotta build a Trojan horse,
build it tall, build it wide, hide some soldiers up inside
Gotta build it very strong,
gotta build it very high,
build it strong, build it high, gotta build it right up to the sky”

Somewhere a country awaits you
Far, far away
Someday you will behold it
Your land of grace
Leave Pharoah’s Egypt behind
And someday you and your people will find
A land flowing with milk and honey
A land for you

I can't remember anything I studied at A level and uni is blur but that was in there.

I had the Wendy Craig LP! I loved it. Especially Hunca Musca.

It was slightly later, in the early 80s, and I was at high school, but we did two song cycles in choir - Holy Moses and Hip Hip Horatio! (about Lord Nelson). I’ve thought about trying to track them down but they probably wouldn’t live up to my memories….

We did 'The Odd Oddesesy: or What's Missing from Homer' It could be best described as a musical comedy drama. It had some bonkers songs. But I still remember them after all these years.

It started off with a recap song of the Trojan war song. "We went to rescue Helen from the Wicked men of Troy; Who when it came to fighting did nothing but annoy. We built a horse of Olive wood and hide armed men inside it........

Rob Rinder was on the Matt Lucas and David Walliams podcast saying he’d been Ulysses in a school play at primary school. I was barely listening so seeing this post jolted me a bit.

BBC Music for Schools used to create shows for schools to put on. Usually a panto for the Autumn term and then a show for the summer term. We never put on the summer ones.

I remember Jack and the Beanstalk, The Tailor of Gloucester and Cinderella especially. I also remember doing one about Jason and the Sirens so possibly this is the same one, and one about Cobblestone on Sea, a windswept little place as you can see. It's certainly by far the most, depressing place on Britain's coast or would be if it hadn't nurtured me! Also a song about a ginormous catalogue.