The 'to be a pilgrim' song started
He who would valiant be/'gainst all disaster
Let him in all constancy follow the Master
There's no discouragement shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim
I work at a school that has a sizeable cohort who have only experienced 'modern worship songs' - and only about two of them.
If I ever hear My Lighthouse again, it'll be a thousand years too flaming soon - and I remain distinctly unimpressed by the modern The Lord is My Shepherd, as it's a blatant rip off of Johnny Matthis' When a Child is Born.
But that's what you get when Music is something done once a week in Year 4 and non musicians can get the TLR for being the Music Specialist in a primary school - two songs and a bit of singing for the rest of the time.
We get kids who have never seen a guitar, much less a drum kit or touched a piano/keyboard in their lives and have never learned to not shout the lyrics out. They're missing out on so much - and not just the ability to talk about a wide variety of songs, particular books and some degree of shared knowledge as we've had on this thread.
But once we've had them for a couple of years, the change is remarkable - if only they had the opportunities earlier when they were most able to learn - music isn't for just those whose parents are willing to pay for it, it should be available to all kids for free.
Bloody Tories making it chargeable and bloody Labour for not reversing that decision.
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