To remember this primary school song?

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Sorry, this is a bit random and pointless and possibly a bit of a niche memory! But it suddenly popped into my head earlier today!

im 25 and went to primary school between 2003-2010 so not even that long ago, but I remember singing songs in the assembly and one of them stuck in my mind so clearly I can still remember it word for word.

‘if you’re feeling sad and weary and you’re down in the dumps there’s something you can do…
don’t be grumpy
don’t go on and on
don’t be grumpy
don’t go and spoil the fun’

obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing and it’s not fair to put 2024 standards on something from 20 years ago but wow that hasn’t aged well very at all! The motto of the song (as i remember it anyway so maybe wrong) was that if you’re sad you shouldn’t talk about it and bring other people down, probably not the best mental health message to send to kids and I imagine it’s not sung too often anymore!

not even sure what the point of this post is sorry!

(and on a more cheerful note- does anyone else remember a song called build up?? And another about a chicken or Easter chick or something like that? That was the best assembly tune!!! 🤣)

Remember both of these as an 80s/early 90s primary school kid

If I had a hammer… I’d hammer all over this land

also

who built the ark?
noah noah
who built
the ark?
BrotherNoah built the ark
Now Noah said ‘GO SHUT THAT DOOR’… (we all were allowed to shout that line)

such fond memories! Great thread :)

Remember this own too.

I knew someone who thought as a child that it was 'Who built the ark? No one, no one!'

I was singing this the other day - I'm 52...😁😁

Ours did too!

Bloody hell, I'm feeling old with all of these!

We sang this one too at primary school and I was born in the early 70s!

... What's the use of worrying?
It never was worthwhile
So, pack up your troubles in your old kitbag
And smile, smile, smile.

We all used to love the 'Quartermaster stores behind the doors' song too.

We sang Cat Steven's Morning Has Broken in assembly as if it were a hymn, and I remember number 66 in our hymnbook was Fight The Good Fight... With all thy might, Christ is thy joy and Christ thy right. It was great, you could really put some welly into it!

My favourite hymn was always Jerusalem.

Do your ears hang low
do they wobble to and fro?
can you tie them in a knot?
can you tie them in a bow?

can you throw them over your shoulder
like a regimental soldier?
do your ears hang low?

Oh, the dillied and dallied one was "My old man said "Follow the van, but don't dilly dally on the way"; Off went the van with my home packed in it, I walked on with my old cock linnet; but I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied..." I think it was originally an old music hall tune from maybe around WW1 days? Our school choir used to sing it, together with other vintage numbers, at local old people's homes.

I love all these old songs. So much better than the gloomy fascism of “We will get along much better when we can obey the rules.” Shudder.

I remember singing “He’s got the whole world in his hands” and “Morning has broken.” Oh and there was a little boy in my primary school who always sang “to be a penguin” (instead of pilgrim). 🐧 😀

“Morning has Broken” was a hymn long before Cat Stevens recorded his arrangement.

Really?! Thank you, I did not know that 😳

My uncle was a primary school head. At his funeral, “When a Knight won his spurs in the stories of old” was played. As soon as I saw it in the order of service, all the words came straight back to me.

I remember singing this one but it was definitely in the playground and it was definitely balls rather than ears! 😆

We used to sing some shockers too. Looking back, we had no idea what we were singing but some of it was really vulgar and totally inappropriate for 8/9 year olds.

One that I remember quite vividly was “We are [name of a neighbouring council estate] girls, we wear our hair in curls” and then a fairly graphic account of sexual assault and an unintentional pregnancy…

I was going to say these very two, when I saw you'd got there first: Quartermaster's Stores and Pack Up Your Troubles!

Unless my creaky memory fails me, these two were both in Ta-ra-ra-bum-de-ay, as mentioned above - along with It's A Long Way To Tipperary.

Did anybody else sing Inch Worm? Inch worm, inch worm, measuring the marigolds ?

We had a school choir, which was led by the same wonderful music teacher who played the piano in assembly, and we did Inch Worm, Ascot Gavotte and Transport Of Delight.

I've heard that one, but it wasn't at school, and the body part mentioned wasn't ears!

Yes! Learned it from a friend.

Yes I think we did some shows for retirement homes too actually, Soldier Soldier and My old Man might have been for that specifically, I wasn't a member of the primary school choir I don't think, but it was a very small school so it might have just been our year group that did it at the time as I remember it not being many students participating. Skip to my loo was definitely part of a school play.

Oh yes I remember lots of primary school playground songs like the 'balls' version of this... There was the Hitler Albert Hall song, some adaptations of Fraggle Rock and Postman Pat... There was 'found a peanut', 'green and yella', 'johnny was a parachuter' and probably more (I blame my older sisters for teaching me most of theses though XD ).

Not that worm song but I learned somewhere as a child "Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, I'm going down the garden to eat worms. Big fat juicy ones, long thin stringy ones, I'm going down the garden to eat worms..."

I sang a lot of these at Brownies and Guides as well as school. I loved the " I lost

Oops! I liked the "I lost my poor meatball, all covered in cheese, it rolled off the table when somebody sneezed..." song.

And loved Kookaburra sung in a roundel.

@DalzielOrNoDalzielAndDontPascoe Is that Transport of Delight by Flanders and Swan? I loved them growing up, especially the Gnu song 😊

One that got us all happy at infants was:

In my little garden
You promise you won't laugh...
I haven't any flowers
I haven't any grass
But soon I'm going to dig and sow
With a bit of sun
With a bit of rain
There'll be a lovely show of........

One potato
Two potatoes
Three potatoes
Four
Five potatoes
Six potatoes
Seven potatoes more
Oh 1 potato.... 2 potatoes....etc etc.

(With actions of clenched hands going one on top of the other)

When DH went to primary school he was taught this stupid song and he got it in my head last week
"its a ning nang ning nang ning nang nong, a ning nang ning nang nong"