To hate modern school assembly songs?

[MintyChapstick]

Following on from a recent thread about those bloody awful modern class photos.

When I was growing up in the 90's we used to sing religious based songs like All Things Bright and Beautiful and Who Put the Colours in the Rainbow?Now they sing bloody weird shit about school rules, one about the lunchtime queaue. A few even have raps in them! They are hideous and to be quite frank, mostly drivel. For some reason I really pine for the songs I sang as a child.

It's nothing to do with school assemblies becoming more secular either, because they have to have collective worship as part of the curriculum and still say the Lords Prayer, hear Bible stories so I don't understand why they can't sing proper old songs?

Going to Junior School in the late 1960s I hated the intoduction of happy-clappy hymns into the morning assembly. In particular "Oh Jesus I have promised" with an awful bouncy new melody. Nearly fifty years on it still makes my teeth itch.

Indeed although even those are better than nothing. This is probably the version you mean as someone pasted above. If you can go about 80/20 older hyuman and 20% newer ones that is a fair balance in primary schools. If you have zero that's a real shame.

I also remember all those folk songs we sang at my primary school which no one who is atheist could object to. Things like the raggle taggle gypsies and many others. Oak and Ash too and lots of others.

I even have my mother's song book from when she was teaching in the 1950s and teaching her class in primary schools (very rough 40 children per class state RC school with no teaching assistant in those days but she got those children to learn all this of our musical heritage).

Ave, ave verum corpus natum
De Maria virgine

Vere passum, immolatum in cruce pro homine.
Cujus latus perforatum, unda fluxit et sanguine;

Esto nobis praegustatum in mortis ex amine, in mortis ex amine.

(optional coda): O Jesu, o dulcis, o pie Jesu, o Jesu, Jesu fili Mariae.

(well, I'd rather have had a mortar board emoticon but this is the best I can find ).

Not really a hymn, that. It's lovely, but very vocally demanding. There's another version, just as gorgeous, by Gounod, set to the same words, which isn't any easier.

Oops, I think that just killed the thread.

That'll teach me to show off.

No, the last two were what we sang in high school music lessons rather than hymns in assembly. We also sang Hans Old Mill which was brill.

Wish i could remember the name of the school hymn book we had in the 80s with God is working his purpose out, Jesus shall reign and Dear Lord and Father.
Also the music lesson song book with Haste thee nymph. Can't think what others were in it.
I know we used With Cheerful Voice in the Juniors with the exact same blue and green swirley cover someone posted.
I remember The Ink is Black in the Infants and feeling sad at "There is a green hill far away."

God is working his purpose out

That one puzzled me. Wasn't God supposed to know his purpose from the off?

It was only when I learnt that in the law working his purpose out meant carrying it out that I remembered those words and all became clear!

I had issues with There is a green hill far away, without a city wall for years - it was only when I went to Scotland for university that the penny dropped!

Catmuffin - Could it have been Junior Praise?

Thanks Littlered I forgot to mention in my post that the book with God is working his purpose out, Jesus shall reign and Dear Lord and Father was for high school assemblies. I don't think it was that one, although it rings a bell somehow so I'm wondering if we may have used that one at Sunday School. The book we had would have been published in the 60s or 70s as it was old looking. Not much to go on i know.
I've remembered that the high school music lesson song book we had had a song with the words "and let the catch, and let the catch, and let the catch and toast go round." As well as Haste thee Nymph.

Has anyone bought one of those CDs you see in gift shops with your child's name on? It's got some sensational offerings about reycling and being eco friendly. I agree with the sentiment, but good grief the CD is intolerable!! There's a 'rap' on that too: '1...2...3...4....We all need to recycle more. 5...6...7...8...Save the world before too late. Take your plastic, put it in the box, give it to the binman cos recycling rocks!'. Painful!!!

I only bought it because I was sick of the only nursery rhyme CD I'd managed to locate x

From the tiny ant, to the elephant, from the snake to the kangaroo

Care for them it's up to us, care for them it's up to us, no one else will care for them, it's up to, up to usssssss.

Loved that one!

Ooh what about cauliflowers fluffy and cabbage is green, broadband are sweeter than any I've seen....but then I get lost at potatoes bit.

I like the Autumn Days one too! It's been around a bit - we sang it in the 80's!
Actually I hated some of the old religious ones, which could be boring. For me it was more about the tune than the words. It's enjoyable singing a lovely tune.

We sang from the tiny ant today. Love it.

Well I'm probably still missing something buy lm a bit behind on voffee. Thankd to all for explaining :-)

Haha Cardibach. I think I know where you teach. Does it happen on a Wednesday by any chance?

Anyone else feeling nostalgic about the overhead projector now?

I loved singing in assembly.

Belting out 'He's got the whole world in his PANTS' was the highlight of the day. Or 'who built the ark? No one! No one!'

We were hilarious.

mama, they are so good and so sweet.

Yes, for me it's up there with Christmas plays with a blaring pop backing track and groovy dance moves (and confusing semi-nods to the nativity story) What the heck is wrong with a simple story and 'away in a manger'.

Brek, yes, and the handwriting on the transparent sheets, in different colours. I remember Living Lord being written in a vivid shade of turquoisey green.

U2HasTheEdge

"From the tiny ant, to the elephant, from the snake to the kangaroo

Care for them it's up to us, care for them it's up to us, no one else will care for them, it's up to, up to usssss"

That's just brought back memories of our headteacher getting cross because she wanted us to sing 'uuuuus' instead of 'usssss.' Nobody did.
Much like Sing Hosanna to the King of Kings!