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?

I've found a video on YouTube, is it all the same stuff that's in the book?

How lovely and heartwarming that we have Muslims on here and also atheists, and also Christians and spiritual people. agnostics and people who believe but aren't avid, and everyone is in agreement that these songs are lovely.

What a lovely, lovely thread..

Oh crosspost with MooBaa!

I was at school throughout the 8@s. We had the orange 'Morning has Broken' hymn book, with many of those mentioned.

"Heeee who would valiant be,
'Gainst all dis-aarrrr-ster"

@scarecrowhead YES! Loved that one!

Ahhh Autumn Days - best song ever! Did everyone else do the rubbing the tummy but on the 'taste of apple pie'?

Keep me travelling along with you, am singing it now.

Wonder how old those kids on the front are now? Must feel odd, knowing that your pre pubescent face was part of the collective memory of millions of people for a whole generation!

Give me light in my lamp keep me burning... how come each tune coming back to me

This entire thread has been a blast from the past and I’m loving it.

Anyone remember God Bless The Grass, or the one that went “there are hundreds of thousands, millions of sparrows”?

I remember Apuskaduski! It had pictures of little fish swimming on the cover I think

Fuck. APUSKIDUSKI. Shit me. Wow. It’s 1988 all over again. Thanks @Hullabaloo! I can’t remember anything about it apart from singing ‘apuskiduski, apuskidoooooo’

Dh heard lord of the dance recently on a nursery rhyme cd and got very excited singing it. Dont think dd understood why daddy was singing so loudly

This thread has made me ridiculously happy!!

Oh wow, so much nostalgia! Reading this thread may have been the best part of my day.

Hullabaloo was that the book with fish shoals on the front?

I have one!! I got it for my birthday😂 my favourite is we are climbing jesus’ ladder

Jesus's ladder ladder!
When a knight won his spurs.
Oh my.

Does anyone remember...

There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord....?

@hullabaloo I have both the apusskidu and come and praise piano books (I also have all the others in the same series as apusskidu - there are many!) and can be regularly found belting a tune out on the piano. I bet my neighbours love me

Still got my original blue one somewhere! It must be 36(ish) years old now!! 😆 🎶

Mr. Noah built the Ark
People thought it was such a lark
Mr. Noah pleaded so
Into the Ark they would not go!
Down came the rain in torrents
Down came the rain in torrents
Down came the rain in torrents
And only eight were saved!

I must be slightly (hoping only very slightly.........) older than some of you as we had the Red Folk Hymnal and the Blue Folk Hymnal - still had "Colours of Day" though!
Clawdy - Jesus Bids Us Shine was apparently one I learned at nursery school - my lovely 80 year old father still sings it to us at times!

Hmm so what do we think is the best way to —force— I mean, encourage, our kids to learn these awesome songs? Are they all on YouTube or a CD?

@Carpetburns 'where the dear lord was crucified and died to save us all'

I bloody love this version of Shine Jesus Shine

somebody greater than you and me put the fiiish I the sea,

I'm really enjoying listening to these, so many I'd forgotten!

Anyone else looking for this on Ebay now?
Why is it so expensive 😭