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?

Little birds in wintertime
Hungry are and poor
Feed them for the fathers sake
Til the winters o'er

Throw them crumbs that you can spare
Round about your door
Feed them for the fathers sake
Til the winters o'er

All much nicer than the witty songs about Christmas shopping that they all sing now...

Loved Autumn Days, When a Knight won his spurs and O Jesus I have promised (sung as quickly as possible in our school).
Does anyone remember 'said Judas to Mary'?, I loved the tune (not so much the words as was grappling with inner religious conflict even then ), think I might have to buy a copy from amazon now if they haven't sold out by now!

Oh and did you have music to walk into assembly to? We had a mad very interesting music teacher who played Albatross by Fleetwood Mac every sodding morning for us to listen to

Jesus loves me yes I know
For the bible tells me so
Little one to him belong
We are weak but he is strong

Sorry, on a roll, and haven't read whole thread

My old man
Said follow the van
& don't dilly dally on the way
Off went the van with me 'ome packed in it
I follered on with me old cock linnet
I dillied, I dallied
Dallied & I dillied
Lost me way & don't know where to roam
Oh you can't trust a special like an old time copper
When you can't find your way 'ome

(to be sung in a Cockney accent, Dorcas )

Said Judas to Mary - really dirgey and miserable sounding, but I quite liked it too!

Conjures up a very odd image though, doesn't it? Wipey wipey ointmenty feet.

Ponders I have a scouse accent!
I always thought it was with My old clock in it! What is a cock linnet?

elainereese, glad I'm not alone!

I was a hymn book monitor- and one of the perks was getting a really new copy of the book. The teachers got them, and the headmaster had his own special copy. At lunch times, we would waste hours trying to stick all the faded copies back together. Another perk ws operating the cassette recorder (most of come and praise was to a backing track)

I remember (I think, not c and p)-a song called 'The family of man'- 1979 was the international year of the child, and we used to sing that alot. I hated it.

Also, .Morningtown ride'-
'train whistle blowing, makes a sleepy noise...'

I liked all the dirgy ones best in 'Come and Praise'.

I used to like wednesday mornings, because we sang 'proper' hymns like 'Onward Christian soldiers'. We had a pianist then, too.

it's a bird - sparrow-type? a pet, in a cage

NeedToSleep / elainereesewas that the one that went 'I'll pour it all over the feet of my Lord and I'll wipe it away with my hair'?

I always thought it was odd.

I liked 'somebody greater than you or me, put the apple on the apple tree'

And 'I'm going to paint a perfect picture, a world of make belee-eeve'

MissIngaFewmarbles - I remember that one! I like the melancholy ones.

Mum salvaged the come and praise books when the new Head took over. There are three boxes in her attic full. I scrimped a copy and the piano music book.

Loved them so much. Was a guide leader and was regularly on the carol service committee, the older leaders want all the old ones with every verse, where as us younger leaders wanted 'when santa got stuck up a chimney' 'christmas alphabet' and 'calypso carol' which they all hated because they were fun.

I played the recorder in assemblies during my last year. Mum was so proud but I felt a bit disappointed as wanted to sing hymns.

Badger Girl, Geordie Racer and Through the Dragon's Eye were great. Can you remember the 'Magic E' song??

DH went to the school nearby and they didn't have any of this, was a similar rural school.

Right - I can add some more details:

The Noah one, "by two, by two, by two, by two, etc go forth, increase and multiply etc" was from a cantata by Michael Horowitz, at least one version of which had proper SATB harmonies.

"Maisy Dotes and Dosy Dotes" is a sort of tongue twister cos the real words are:

"Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and kiddly lambs eat ivy, a kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you"

But, the point is to sing:

"maisty doates and dosy dotes and kidldly dams a-divy. A kiddldy divy-doo woulnd't you"

I think it's a music hall song.

Now - anyone else remember:

"When father papered the parlour,
We couldn;t see him for dust.
Papering here, papering there,
paste and paper everywhere.

Mother got stuck to the ceiling.
The children got stuck to the floor.
Did you ever met a bloomin' family so stuck up before?"

I love the sun
It shines down on me
God made the sun and god made me

I love the wind etc

Oh 'Come and Praise' I loved putting the OHP sheets on and moving them up and down as we sang. Did anyone else have 'Apuskiduski' a song book with fish on the front? The title song went something like 'In middle ocean, sardines are swimming apuskiduski, apuskidoo...'

My MiL recently complained that Octonauts was teaching my son nonsensical words ie Tunip, I thought about apuskduski and smiled to myself- we were taught far worse!

Kellestar you have 3 boxes full of come and praise?

You could start a little business up on here I reckon

My first junior school headmaster had a booming deep Welsh voice, his favourite hymn was, "the old rugged cross". Confused me the whole, "exchange it one day for a crown" as my nan had just told me about old money, crowns and half crowns. Had visions of exchanging the cross for 25p!

Here's a depressing one, I wonder if anyone else had to sing this?

'the rain it keeps falling down my window
Just like tears, just like tears
As if the world it was weeping for her children
Down the years, down the years
So what have we learned since the Christ child was born
And died for us on the tree
And why are we still waiting
And why can't we find peace
And why are we so blind that we can't see?

I remember having 2 hymn books at infants - a red hardback one with a black and white picture of children singing, on the cover, and another one. And I think 'When I knight won his spurs' was number 66! Junior school was just one hymn book with what reminded me of sea weed and fish on I think! There was a lovely hymn that mentioned fishermen out at sea, but I can't think for the life of me what it was called.

Also we had 'Time and Tune' which we listened to on the radio and had song books to sing along with. One character was called 'Tweedwitch'. Lovely memories!

I liked

Will yerrancherr hold in the storrumms of life
When the clouds unfold their winds of strife
When the storm clouds lift and the cables strain
Will yerranchir lift or firrrum remain?

Sung in broad Scottish accent

All these remind me of talking in strong accent and dialect at school, now watered down after long years of living in Englishland...

I bought this book about 9 years ago when DH and I couldn't decide on hymns for our wedding. It?s the proper book like what we had in school!

DH refused to let me have the tiny ant song for one of the hymns(I thought we could split 'his side' and 'my side' to sing it in a beautiful harmonious way sigh ) Like strawberrie we had keep me travelling :)

I?m going to have to ask DH to go in the attic later and bring it down (I?d go up but my attic is guarded by a big spider called Pete who dislikes me intensly?)

It?s the proper book like what we had in school! You can tell I went to a very good school with grammar like that!

Oh and a right Catholic weepy-wailey...

Ave Maria
Grazia Plena
Dominus
Takuum
Benedicta too

All I have I give you
Every dream and wish are yours
Mother of Christ
Mother of mine
Present them to my Lord

Rpt dodgy latin chorus...

(excuse me for the bad Latin and possible wrong words, I am now a very excommunicated lapsed Catholic!)

I think a lot of the non-religious ones are from Apuskidu, there were a few similar books. I have Apuskidu but not the others.

My favourite from Apuskidu was the "Super Supper March" I posted some of it as a FB status a few weeks ago and everyone thought I'd lost the plot, or having very odd non-veggie cravings. :o

Hungry, hungry I am hungry
Table, table here I come
I could eat a goose-moose burger
Fifteen pickles and a purple plum

I could eat three bowls of goulash
Half a pound of wuzzled wheat
I could eat a peck of poobers
Then I'd really get to work and eat

Oysters, noodles, strawberry stroodles
French fries, fish hash, one red beet
Lamb chops, wham chops
Huckleberry mish mash
Oh, the things that I could eat

Doughnuts, dump-a-lings
Blueberry bump-a-lings
Chocolate mush-mash, super sweet
Clam stew, ham stew,
Water melon wush wush
Oh, the stuff that I could eat

Deep dish rhubarb, upside-down cake
I could eat a frittered flum
Hungry, hungry, I am starviiiiiiiing
Table, table, table, here I come!