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 😁

Oh my lord I thought that was unique to me!!

@Abhannmor

In and out the bluebells,
In and out the bluebells,
In and out the bluebells,
And then out through the door!

At my primary this was a skipping song - you jumped in whilst someone else was already skipping. At ‘And then out through the door’ the first person skipped out.

We never acted out these musical delights as plays, but we used to gather in the hall and listen to the stories on the radio and singalong using music books.

I remember really liking Samson and Delilah. (Gosh, that Delilah song was inappropriate!)

We listened to a radio drama about the wooden horse. It was a weekly series and I loved it. I am not sure there were songs, though. It was quite serious.

I remember one about Noah:

It looks like rain,
Now wouldn’t that be jolly!
It looks like rain,
I must go and get my brolly!
A short sharp shower
Would do the flowers good!

There was another one about settlers in the US going West:

When I was a girl, my mother
Would look into my eyes and say,
’Though wagons are rolling westwards,
It’s here in the East you must stay!
Don’t dream of rolling pastures
Of….’

I have forgotten the rest!

'When Miss Delilah goes a-walking in the morning air, all the people who are shopping in the market square stop all their tittle-tattle , turn around and gaze like cattle, because she is so fair. Lovely Delilah. '

Also - 'Samson was a hero in the days of old. The spirit of the Lord had made him bold. The muscles on his arms stood out like iron bands - and he had big hands!'

From Noah I remember something like 'There were marsupials and mammals, birds, and wallabies and camels, snakes and centipedes, a pair of everyone. They were stuck with one giraffe 'til they found his better half. Then from antelope to zebra they were done'.

These might not be 100% accurate but it was over 50 years ago!!

In a circle holding hand with your arms over your head.
One child skips though each arch of arms, on one and out the next singing:
In and out the dusty bluebells
In and out the dusty bluebells
In and out the dusty bluebells
Who will be my partner?

That child then pick another and hold her hand. They then both go through the arches singing and the last girl picks a friend who joins the line. Continue until there is one two children left or the bell rings.

Oh the memories. I can still sing most of thr Moses one. And the Will the Wonders Win!!!!.

Don't forget the best bit. When it's your turn to lead you pat on a friend's shoulders, singing pitter patter, pitter patter on my shoulders, x3 you shall be my master, and then that person gets to lead the conga.

I learned this as a child in Miss Smith's class 50 something years ago, and still teach it now. Makes me a bit teary, now.

Yep

see my earlier posts

underneath the chandelier's

Royal Navy blues

also Theseus and the Minotaur was another sing a long

I’d forgotten the ‘pitter patter on my shoulders’ bit.

Hissing Sid is innocent.

Why don't schools do these now? So much focus on SATs, literacy and numeracy.

I know they are important (maybe not the SATs) but these plays / musicals allowed you to learn to read music, learn some history (basically horrible histories before they existed) some Bible stories get a bit of exercise and have fun.

Sadly, being political, it is down to Michael Gove's odious "reforms" of the curriculum. So much to cram in that the "nice" stuff that we all remember so fondly is squeezed out. I just feel so sorry for our kids not having those opportunities that we did.

My DDs were in primary school until 2012, which is before Gove's things were published and they did get to do Christmas musical plays. However, theirs were similar to those in Out of the Ark (a great primary music teaching resource now) rather than those we remember, although similar catchy songs and we can all remember those too.

Said Captain Beaky “well I’m blowed, Hissing Sid has swallowed Toad!”. Loved those songs

I won tickets to see the show live at the Albert Hall years ago. Great fun.

YES!

Different parts, singing different bits at the same time…
“Burn it all up”
”No!”
”Take it into the city”
”Leave it where it is!”

I’ve also just remembered that for the “some say yes” song we were encouraged to use a sort of what I can only describe as a fake Jamaican accent for some bizarre reason!

Yes!!!
Oh my god - Rat a Tat Twigwidge, Spirit of the old oak tree !!!!!!

I was v young and terrified of bloody Twigwidge.

Does anyone know what play 'The People of the North' would have been in? I've just had a faint glimmer of a memory of that.

As a 6 year old i had to be a snake in a school play and roll about on the floor in a little white underwear vest painted with thick poster paint which was itchy as fuck 🧐

Even now, someone only has to say "It looks like rain" and I'm off!

Now won't that just be jolly
It looks like rain
You know, I thought it would.
It looks like rain- I must go and get my brolly
A short, sharp shower will do the flowers good.

I do that too 😀

I used to have a copy of Captain Beaky's Woodland Gospels, where they decide to spread the Good News to the forest creatures, but it rains so they end up sitting under a boat while Artful Owl answers questions like "Is Heaven up or sideways?" and whether Jesus would want them to let Hissing Sid have the last chocolate biscuit. It was lovely.

Ooh! I’ve remembered something else - one of the songs started “King Minos lived in the palace of Knossos(?)”

Wonder if that was part of the same play or a different one I’m remembering?

Was that Greece Goes to Pieces?

I can remember this . The song also stayed in my head over the years.
It was a play called trig trog