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?

@JaceLancs

Oh, now carry me to Bethlehem
to see the Lord appear to men;
Just as poor as was the stable then,
The prince of glory when he came.

When I was a primary teacher I often volunteered to do hymn practice, couldn't sing for toffee but bloody loved it. Kids loved it because I often danced and did all the actions. 😁 I often filled up just looking at 400 little faces singing their hearts out, great times

Love this thread. Sadly kids have never had the experience of the come and praise hymn book or indeed singing any hymn nut would heartily join me in a verse of 'cross over the road my friend, ask, the lord his hand to lend' because i cannot say lets cross the road without it comimg to mind! Its been 40 years!!
Oh and the vicar told me, rather sniffingly i thought, my choice of hymns for our wedding was "very 1980s schoolgirl" i told.him rather sniffingly back that as i was a schoolgirl in the 1980s and so were half the crowd who would at least know the words and tune. Was very proud of.my atheist friends who knew every word and sang at the tops of their voices.

Is this also the Calypso Carol:
🎶 He came from the glory
🎶 He came from the glorious kingdom
🎶 OH YES BELIEVER!!!

An anecdote about Shine, Jesus Shine. Our projector often overheated and would cut off, which it did just before we were going to sing Shine.. I told the kids we knew the words anyway so we sang the first verse.... Just as we were started to belt out the chorus "Shine, Jesus shine" the bulb came back on! The look on the kids' faces cracked me up, I told them it was a miracle as Jesus must have heard us singing 😁😁

Haven't rtft but

'Hand me down my silver trumpet lord
O' hand me down
O'hand me down
X2
O' hand me down my silver trumpet... GABRIEL'

My daughter's school do "One More Step" for the last assembly of the summer term as the Year 6s walk out, as a symbolic leaving junior school to go to seniors thing. I have a stone for a heart, but even I get a bit emosh at that. Their little faces!

My daughter is Y5 now, so when it's her turn next year I'm going to be a mess!

OMG! This thread is like coming home.

We had a scratchy projector, but if we were very responsible, in year 5 or 6, we'd be trusted to operate it, with the copies of songs.

We had Autumn Days a lot, and of course 'One More Step Along the World I Go'.

What spiced it up for me was going to secondary school, when they unwisely organised a 'talent show' with the proviso that all acts should be approved or drawn from approved textbooks. The upper fifth (practically adults to me) chose to sing 'Shine Jesus Shine' with what would now look like the odd bit of pole-dancing moves thrown in.

They were suspended, and we were banned from accessing Come And Praise. Sad times.

🎵 Oh Jesus I have promised, to love thee to the end...

I loved that so much, I had it at my wedding!

Also, I would like to share my own composition, from the year of John Major's election. It is a simple thing:

When a knight won his spurs in the stories of new
He voted true Tory, yes he was a blue.

Given I was 6 at the time, I can applaud my parents' tireless indoctrination, as they'd had me leafleting for the SPD and then the Lid Dems for years.

I've had the music for years having played them on the recorder in assembly. Always handy. Very amused when dd non faith school taught them Autumn Days. It doesn't mention God so they got to sing it. She also sang several others as they're more about charity than a specific faith.

Come and Praise version of My eyes have seen the glory has different lyrics.

There is singing in the desert,
there is laughter in the skies,
there are wise men filled with wonder,
there are shepherds with surprise;
you can tell the world is dancing
by the light that's in their eyes,
for Jesus Christ is here.

Come and sing aloud your praises,
Come and sing aloud your praises,
Come and sing aloud your praises,
For Jesus Christ is here.

He hears deaf men by the lakeside,
he sees blind men in the streets,
he goes up to those who cannot walk,
he talks to all he meets,
touching silken robes or tattered clothes,
it's everyone he greets,
for Jesus Christ is here.

Come and sing aloud your praises,
Come and sing aloud your praises,
Come and sing aloud your praises,
For Jesus Christ is here.

I only remember a few of these. Our old headmaster was a real hippy so we would sing 60’s/70’s pop songs!! I knew the words to every Simon and Garfunkel song by the time I was 9!

@PinguForPresident They had 'One more step along the way' for my daughter's year 6 Leaver's Assembly. Mess doesn't even begin to describe the state I was in - I am welling up now just thinking about it -she is 15!

All good gifts around us are sent from Heaven above..
Became

All good gifts around us are sent from Toys R Us!

We sang hymns daily so don't know these songs at all!

I've remembered another one:

If I were a butterfly I'd thank you lord for giving me wings
And if I were a robin in a tree I'd thank you lord that I could sing
And if I were a fishy in the sea, I'd wiggle my tail and I'd giggle with glee
But I just thank you father for making me me.

And one that always gives me the tingles at Christmas is

Torches torches run with torches all the way to Bethlehem.

I've got that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart (where?) down in my heart.... and something about a 'Nikodemus freedom feeling'.... I also had one more step at my wedding and at dear dads funeral

someone (my mum, Catholic?) taught us a different chorus to Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory which was:

Glory Glory
What a helluva way to die!
Glory Glory
What a helluva way to die!
etc

and now I have an earworm of it.

Now Jesus one day
Went down to the shore,
And hundreds of people
Who’d heard Him before
Followed Him to listen,
Followed Him to listen,
And the waves all went splash,
Splash, splash, splash.

Love this thread, loads of memories from my time at school. I might have to buy it myself now.

God, these are making me so nostalgic!

I remember most of them, but am drawing a blank on 'if you’re a friend of Jesus'

Autumn Days - did anyone else's school always shout the line: AND A WIN FOR MY HOME TEAM?

Of course!

🎵 he's got the whole world in his hands 🎵
I thought for ages it was 'inisstands' I have no idea if that's even a word and I remember thinking what did 'inisstands' mean.
We didn't get the book at my primary school till you were in the older years. I presume because most of the littlies wouldn't be able to read it. Hence my misunderstanding 😂

I used to think I was a right rebel when I sang the skye Boat song lyrics to the Spirit of God song
I chose ‘lord of all hopefulness’ for my wedding ceremony as I adored it as a child.
Several of the songs featured in the book are still regulars in my local Church today.

This is just so lovely. I'd forgotten colours of day. I remember "Shine Jesus Shine" was the first ever hymn we sang as year threes in junior school. We had so many of these, but o don't remember autumn days or the knight one.

We had streets of London too. And lots of Beatles ones. And underneath the sea, far away from land....... and the whole school would shuffle forward on their bums on the "ner-er-er-er-er-vous wreck" bit. And Lily the pink. And don't bring lulu. Kumbaya has some marvellous hand actions too..... this is so lovely I don't think my boys do hymns at school These songs remind me of a relatively care-free childhood, as it all went a bit wrong during secondary.

Oh and all the Christmas ones.....

We always did a panto type play at Christmas, so learnt a lot of Disney songs, or ones our clever yr 6 teacher had written for those. I finished primary in 1995, which was 60 years after VE Day, so we did a lot of war songs for our leavers play. I remember those really well too.