For those of you who were at Primary School in the 80's

[Tequilamockinbird]

Would you like to reminisce with me about school assemblies?

DH and I were talking about the 'Come and Praise' book, and singing remembering the songs.

Does anyone else remember songs such as Autumn Days and Cross over the road my friend? Which others were there?

I remember so many of these! Light up the fire was my favourite. In our books the word naked was scored out of the were you there song and replaced with frozen. We thought this was very funny.

Oh jesus I have promised
To serve to the end
Be thou forever near me
My master and my friend

Then something about the storms of battle I think....

Also that one 'when lamps are lighted in the town, and boats sailed out to sea...'

To serve thee to the end

And we had bread and fishes
And a jug if read wine

Can't remember any more!

Of red wine. Bloody phone

Just found Come and Praise here for £3.67!

I might have to buy it, for old times sake

Right, Tequila, thanks to you I was up at 4am trying to remember the weird "Town Without Any Houses" song that used to Freak Me The Fuck Out when I was a little girl

and lo thanks to St Google...

Think of a world without any people,Think of a street with no-one living there,Think of a town without any houses,No-one to love and nobody to care.We thank You, Lordfor families and friendships,We thank You, Lord,and praise Your holy name.

I think I might have sung this not long after watching When The Wind Blows and got a bit Holocaust-phobic aged seven

for when a knight won his spurs

or this version

Armageddon

I remember that one too!

ayestotheright we had 'I watch the sunrise' at our secondary school leavers' assembly - not a dry eye in the house. Then again, I did know someone who was suspended (strict school) for substituting the word 'penguin' for 'pilgrim' - giving "Let fancies flee away! I'll fear not what men say - I'll labour night and day to be a penguin..."

Amber Leaf thank you! I will have DD singing that for Christmas

the Bolter bread and fishes was the St. Winifreds school choir one. I think they even appeared on Top of the Pops. I had the single.

Bonkers20 - did you go to school in Berkshire?? I so remember the miserable "Donna Donna" about the cow being slaughtered! And house of the rising sun, lily the pink, streets of London, little boxes... Our class teacher (mid 70s) was a big right on, in a folk band and into Morris dancing. I thought she was fab, my mum always got a bit cats-bum-face!

School hymn book was a slim pamphlet style book, thunk it was by BBC and called Songs of Praise (I always though that meant we might get on telly one day!)

Musicals - we did Oliver, Joseph, and "Captain Noah & His Floating Zoo"

"but Noah and his family they've been good
Go Noah build me a boat of [something] wood
Make it two - fifty long by 75 feet wide
With a [blah and a blah] and a roof and a door in the side
Gonna make it rain and rain and rain and rain and rain
Gonna make it rain and rain and rain and rain and rain
Gonna make it rain and rain and rain and wash them sinners down the drain
Gonna make it rain and rain and rain and rain and rain"

I haven't read all the pages, and I don't think it came out of the Come and Praise book, but did anyone sing 'Tails tails tails' in assembly? that was definitely my favourite

Tails tails tails you can swing them to and fro
You can wrap them round your middle
You can tie them in a bow
You can wave them when you're angry
You can wag them when you're glad
You can chase them round and round and round and round and round and round
Until you driiiiiiiive the neighbours mad

My favourite Christmas song was 'it was on a starry night', still get goosebumps and Christmassy feelings now

That reminds me of "Do your ears hang low?" - does it have the same tune? We used to have to sing it 3 times, once normally, once whispering, and once like a robot. I have no idea why!

I love Autumn Days :)

My friend died in a car accident when we were in 6th form and his parents chose One More Step Along the World I Go for his funeral. It was really sad, but lovely. We all cried :(

Oh, I really loved When A Knight Won His Spurs! (reading the thread in bits)

I had Make Me A Channel of Your Peace at my wedding.

Morning is Broken
Kumbaya or whatever the hell it was called

And we used to sing The Streets of London - which I quite liked actually. Better than all that religious shit that was being forced down our little Atheist throats.

Nooka-Do you mean the one that begins "Immaculate Mary our hearts are on fire..." and then has the "Ave, ave, ave maria" chorus. I think it has about 16 verses? Everyone used to start off really enthusiastically and run out of steam by verse 8!

Oh so many faves here! Colours of Day, When a Knight. Also remember trying to see who could sing 'ink is black, page is White, together we learn to do a shite' loudest and 'to be a penguin' instead of pilgrim and 'most highly flavoured gravy' instead of Mary.

Ohhh I love these - I home ed and we often you tube these kind of songs and sing them .

Once ds1 was off school ill and ds2 and ds3 were being H.E so we sang 'we plough the fields etc' with ds3 sing the plough the fields and scatter the seeds all the time low in the background iyswim.

When dh came home from work ds1 announced he was definitely back at school the next day .....why? asked dh -'cos im not bloody singing her songs' was the reply.

Autumn days is my fave !! and at the youth club Im at I get the teenagers to sing it its fab!!1

Kum by yah means 'come by here' allegedly so Mrs Sharp told me in infant 2 ....when I was caught singing 'tin of boiled ham'..

We also sang a Noah one but all I can remember of it is...

By 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, by 2, byyyyyyy 22222222, byyyyyyyyy 2, by 2....

No idea what that was but it's now stuck in my head

go forth, increase and multiply, go forth, increase and multiply, go forth, increase and multiply by two by two.....................................

My brother thought "When a Knight won his spurs" was about someone breaking their arm. We think it was the bit which says "with a shield on his arm"