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?

Love this thread! We had the blue come and praise and there was something very tempting about the cellophane cover that made you want to pick the corners and peel it off (not just me, honest, Guv...)

We all used to sing "cucumber, my Lord, cucumber..."

Nobody....you have solved that mystery, it was 2 sounds combined so the Spring is coming bit was one song but the chorus was definitely what you linked to. How funny. I had obviously made up what I thought the chorus said but a yodel makes much more sense😃

I remember Ralph McTell from Tickle on the Tum, with Nerys Hughes. I am probably in a minority because nobody else I know remembers it. I think he was a postman or something. Even my mother thinks i have imagined this
I loved Tickke-on-the-Tum! Check out the cast list on wiki, amazing memories!

I've just had to watch Autumn Days on You Tube. The nostalgia!

@TigerMummy1 Thank you!

BEETROOTS PURPLE AND ONIONS WHITE
ALL GROW STEADILY DAY AND NIGHT
the apples are ripe, the plums are red
strawberries sweeter IN THEIR BLANKETY BEDS

Apusskidu is the A4 (landscape) sized ring bound song book with fish on the front cover.

It says published 1975. The song Apuskiduski went ' in middle ocean, sardines are swimming, apusski duski, apusskidu....

I also bought Okki tokki unga with Apusskidu from the same charity shop but don't think my school used that as I don't really remember that one.

That one was published on 1976.

We had a girl called Roseanna at school so we used to sing "Sing Roseanna, sing Roseanna, sing Roseanna to the king of kings". We thought it was hilarious every single time!

I had Give me oil in my lamp at my wedding! Everyone knew it and we had a right good singalong!

Growing up in an Irish Catholic community, I have clearly missed out.

Some of the songs you're all remembering are familiar, but they sound like 'proper' hymns.

The picture on the t-shirt linked at the start of the thread is not familiar...

I have no idea where 'I love the flowers, I love the daffodils, I love the fireflies, I love the rolling hills' was published - but when I'm on my break at work, I can hear when the primary school have done it - they bellow out

Boom-ti-ar-rah, Boom-ti-ar-rah, Boom-ti-ar-rah, BOOOM!

Vaguely connected, but not particaularly (if at all) religious - does anybody know the song Geronimo?

Mid 90s - 2000s, about growing up

Here we go [clap clap], Geronimo [clap clap], this is the moment I've been waiting for, praying for,
Open up my parachute and flyyyyyyyyyyy

DD's Primary school from Reception - and every year, for the Leavers' Assembly, the entire school would line up in the playground and sing it together, so you got to hear it for 6 years until the very last day, when it was about Your Child growing up and leaving their little primary. and you bawl your eyes out

Nobody else I've spoken to seems to know it, but I want to get a copy for a friend who teaches music in a couple of primaries, as she's really interested in having something like that.

Help!

• "The lord said to Noah, there's going to be a floody floody. Lord said, to Noah, there's going to be a floody floody GET. THOSE. CHIL-DREN. out of the muddy muddy Childrennnn of the Lorrrrd"

Something about building an Arky Arky.*

OMG NOOOO this was from the simpsons not the hymn book 🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG hahahahaha. I remember The Flanders family singing it. Oh I'm so daft.

Arky Arky

@longtompot
Kalinka kalinka kalinka my dear
Your name is in the whisper of pines I can hear
Oh, underneath the pine trees
Green and shady pine trees
Let me linger there & dream
Lullay lullay lullay
... and then I can't remember what comes next.

I must teach Autumn Days to my class in September!

Loved this one:

We plough the fields and scatter
the good seed on the land,
but it is fed and watered
by God's almighty hand;
he sends the snow in winter,
the warmth to swell the grain,
the breezes and the sunshine
and soft refreshing rain.
All good gifts around us
are sent from heaven above,
then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord
for all his love.

We used to sing 2 hymns every morning in assembly. I've still got all my hymn books somewhere.

* "The lord said to Noah, there's going to be a floody floody. Lord said, to Noah, there's going to be a floody floody GET. THOSE. CHIL-DREN. out of the muddy muddy Childrennnn of the Lorrrrd" Something about building an Arky Arky. OMG NOOOO this was from the simpsons not the hymn book 🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMG hahahahaha. I remember The Flanders family singing it. Oh I'm so daft.*

We used to sing this one.

We had this as a newcomer hymn book to the more staid With Cheerful Voice. My traditional headmistress described Come and Praise as more "go-y"

Love this thread. Lots of memories. What do they sing in schools now if not these?

Brilliant. I worked with a girl that was similarly enamoured of Come & Praise songs and we'd have rousing renditions across the open plan office on a Friday afternoon (2 teams in the office and we were rhe respective bosses of each so could get away with it) Both of us staunch atheists.

If you’re a friend of Jesus

CLAP CLAP CLAP

You’re a friend of miiiiiiine!

One more step is a family favourite here. DCs school sang it at the end of every school year and it always made me cry. They are grown up now but it’s not unheard of for us to break into a spontaneous rendition of it if we are walking somewhere where we won’t be overheard.

We used to sing Streets of London at school alllllll the time too.

We had a girl called Roseanna at school so we used to sing "Sing Roseanna, sing Roseanna, sing Roseanna to the king of kings". We thought it was hilarious every single time!

There was a girl in my primary school whose name was literally Hosanna (very religious parents). The poor thing used to cry when we did ‘Sing Hosanna’ at assembly. What a name to have to live with, though - I don’t know what her parents were thinking.