To have bought a copy of 'come and praise'...

[KindergartenKop]

...to expose my kids to the brilliant songs of 80s and 90s primary school assemblies.

Aibu?

Who put the colours in the rainbow
Who put the salt into the sea?

Brilliant!!!! I've been scrolling through to add a song but I think you've all got it covered!! 🎶

Autumn Days, the Building Song and Shine Jesus Shine take me right back to Junior School.

Anyone remember -
"I will bring to you the best gift I can offer
I will sing to you the best things in my mind ..."

In my old school one of the most exciting things about joining the juniors was receiving your own copies of Come and Praise (Blue) and Morning Has Broken (Red with a big orange sun on the cover).

When you left school you kept your hymn books and everybody signed them - which seems a bit odd now. I think mine are in my parents attic.

My children went to my old primary school and when they moved into the juniors I was disappointed that modern day cut backs meant that they now had an overhead projector in assemblies for hymn lyrics.

My favourite was Autumn Days.

Wide wide as the ocean, high as the heavens above
Deep deep as the deepest sea is my saviour's love.

With over exaggerated actions....

catra.. Paper pictures bits of string, I'll bring you almost anything, I'll bring a song that only i can sing...

My old favourite was ‘the wise man built his house upon the rocks’ and doing the little clap at the end when the house on the sand goes flat. Ooh, and ‘Deep and Wide’ (even before Come and Praise days, I expect).

Also
There are hundreds of thousands, millions of sparrows....

We still sing some of these at our church now but some I have theses for ages!

Loving this thread ☺️

...and God knows everyone and God loves me.

Can we go back as far as the 70s? "All things bright and bee-you-tee-ful, all creatures great and small..."

Another atheist checking in to say praise the lord for this lovely thread! Don't think my children sing these Think I'd probably sob if I heard them singing Morning Has Broken! DH and I have just sung a couple of duets of Sing Hosanna and Lord of the Dance. I like to think I still sing them as badly as I did in primary school.

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Hope this link works. I think it was also posted by another poster

Ah, this is a lovely trip down memory lane - was this book the one that had 'when a knight won his spurs in the stories of old ... ' in too?

@chachaboom we had our own version of that:
Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay
Our teacher pumped today
She blew the school away
We had a holiday

How witty we were!

When lamps are lighted in the town,
The boats sail out to sea;
The fishers watch when night comes down,
They work for you and me.

That was I think one of the lesser known ones, but along with Colours of Day and Jesus I have Promised was my fave 🙌

O Lord, all the world belongs to You
and You are always making all things new.
What is wrong, You forgive,
and the new life You give
is what’s turning the world upside down.

the purple headed mountains..

Nobody I know can remember this (I swear I don’t invent it!) but does anyone else remember one called ‘Firmly, I believe and truly, God is Three and God is One’? Made no sense to me as a kid but had a cracking tune!

My DD still sings these at her independent school. Don’t others?!

My favourite bit in autumn days is "and the silk inside a chestnut shell"

Oh goodness me, thank you for this thread. Memories!

My DCs are being educated tomorrow.

Well this seems to have triggered something deep in the recesses of my brain.
I swear i could play the descant to half of these if someone handed me a recorder!

Allikane 'And I next acknowledge, duly, manhood taken by the Son' - Cardinal Newnham, IIRC.

Was Michaelmas Daisies in the blue book?

Michaelmas daisies purple in the border, bi fat leeks all standing up in order, whispered barley talking to the breeze, low hung boughs of laden apple trees.

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DONT BRING MUDDY BOOTS INTO THE HALL! Golden onions hanging the W all it's haassrvestttt tiiimme...

Mellow, fruitful harvest tiiiiime!

Curly yes sorry I just saw your later post. I think we must have done Singing Together at school as well, because we definitely learnt Quinoro’s Pearl, what a tune!

In Time and Tune I think we learnt the music itself - I remember doing something about Coppelia, but can't remember what exactly. Anyway sorry OP, I'm digressing from the hymns!