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?

This thread has made me go all misty eyed with nostalgia. Thanks OP, I'm going to buy a copy now ☺️

Does the book have pictures? I seem to remember looking at pictures in the hymn book we had at school?

Does anyone remember a song book from music lessons at school which had a song about 'the fish and chips are floating in the air'

No one I've ever mentioned this to has any ideas!

By the waters, the waters of babylon, we sat down and wept, and wept, for thee zion...

And the silk inside a chestnut shell...

Broad beans sleeping in their blankety beds...

You shall go out with joy, and be lead forth with peace, and the trees of the field will clap their hands...

God I loved all these. I even named my etsy shop ice cream castles after that 'bows and flows of angel hair, and ice cream canyons in the air, and smiling faces everywhere, I looked at life that way"

I love this thread - Come & Praise wasn’t my school hymn book, but my kids had it, & I could sing along with quite a few of them. Such cheerful songs for a morning

My eldest left primary school 26 years ago. It’s made me very nostalgic. Thanks, @KindergartenKop

🎶WAAAAAATER, water of life, JESUS gives us the water of life!🎶

I've been humming When Jesus Walked in Galilee all day because of this thread.

What's the Lighthouse one? I remember one about a lighthouse I think, but I can't get my brain to figure out what it is...

@PragmaticWench did we go to the same school?!? Boom box head and streets of London here too!!

Haha what a lovely trip down memory lane.

I was at primary school in the 60s and remember them all very fondly

Interesting. I was at a state primary school in the early 70s and remember the ink is black, the page is white,- I'm afraid the allusion went rather over my head.

From the same attempt at multiculturalism, does anyone remember this jolly number:

Carry me ackee to a linstead market
Not a quottee would sell?
Baby come and buy acSunday morning breakfast
Rice an ackee taste good
Oh what a life not a bite
What a Saturday night

I loathed and still do, morning has broken and all things bright and beautiful.

Then I went to a naice prep school which was rather more traditional so my memories are of the old hymns, most of which I know by heart.

@Anothertempusername were you in central Essex?! A school beginning with M? Otherwise there were a multitude of headteachers down with the 80s vibe!

@FurryTurnipHead they sang that at the DCs Harvest festival assembly. First time I'd heard it since about 1993.
I got quite choked by it, which DD, who was in year 6 at the time, was not impressed by at all.

@ShowofHands

We still use come and praise in my School!

Autumn Days - did anyone else's school always shout the line:

AND A WIN FOR MY HOME TEAM

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I was the only one at my sister's wedding

Wowee. I love all the old school songs.

GET. THOSE. CHIL-DREN! OUT OF THE MUDDY MUDDY!

is definitely a real song and not just from the Simpsons! It’s so catchy.

I bought a words copy a few years ago, purely for the nostalgia. Now I want the music edition! I loved Autumn Days and taught in 2 schools which still used it. Cauliflower Fluffy isn't in Come and Praise. Does anyone know what it was published in? I'm thinking of starting a children's choir at church and I'd love to sing that!
I've noticed in the weddings I've sung at in the last couple of years that most couples have gone for hymns they sang at school. It's a good idea as non church-going congregations often know them and enjoy singing.
Minor claim to nearly fame - friends live in the old vicarage where Who Put The Colours In The Rainbow and When God Made The Garden of Crearion were composed.
Thank you for this thread. It's made so many of us sing

Is the autumn days the one that goes:

“ see here are red apples for you to eat we eat them to make us grow strong, so now we give thanks to god and sing him our harvest song”

Ooh I used to love Abba father too - “abba father let me weeeee”

This says Cauliflowers Fluffy was in Come & Praise. I think there were different editions?

And it's from the old I travel to the loo (That's what I thought it was, before I could read!) Keep me travelling along with you!

My wedding hymns came from This book. I do love a good sing song.

Colours of day was our school song. Bloody brilliant.

I need a copy now. We had a temporary head at dc school who was selling these on eBay and making a mint for the school resources. I really wanted to ask for a blue copy and see if the cellophane still peeled and felt slightly bumpy,

These songs are all still standard at my local primary school!

Milk bottle tops and paper bags, iron bedsteads, dirty old rags, litter in the pavement, litter in the street. Is this what we? Clap clap clap, really want to see, clap, clap, clap, no! no! no!

My God is so big, so strong and so mighty there's nothing that he cannot do ....
I am a paid up member of the Humanists and I love this chorus.