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?

Kladdkaka thank you! Remembering that song has brought a smile to my face and a little tear to my eye.

Our school used to make us sing in assembly. What the fuck was that about?

Ohh I hateed Morning Has Broken too

There was a girl in the year above me who got to sing a solo bit everytime there was an assmebly with parents. She used to talk in a special way, which I admired...I only realised when I was much older she had a Welsh accent.

I just remember another. The depressing:

Think of a world without any flowers
Think of a world without any rain
Think of a sky without any sunshine
Think of a [...] blah, blah, blah I can't remember the rest.

Think of a world without any flowers
Think of a world without any rain
Think of a sky without any sunshine
Think of a world with no one living there

We thank you lord for flowers trees and sunshine
We thank you lord, and praise your holy name

Our school used to make us sing this in assembly. What the fuck was that about?

:o

The funniest bit of music I've ever seen in school was at my daughter's infant Catholic school nativity play. The angels came skipping out to some tinkling angelly sounding music and all the parents were like 'aahh bless'. Apart from me and my brother who tried not too but could help cracking up laughing. It was Tubular Bells otherwise known as the theme tune from The Exorcist.

Think of a world without any houses
Think of a world without any trees
Think of a sky without any people
No one to love and nobody to care

We thank you lord for flowers trees and sunshine
We thank you lord, and praise your holy name

I quite liked it.

It's very dark though.

Yes, must the change from minor to major key for the chorus was kind of nice.

I don't think I thought very deeply about anything at middle school. Apart from who could do the best cartwheels.

I'm typing rubbish. Must read before I post.

Marking my place, love this thread!

Just reading this post with DH and we are finding it very funny :o

He has just shared with me one they sang at school called the 'George Fox song' and it is a corker! He can only remeber the words for the chorus but here they are

Old leather breeches shaggy shaggy locks,
Old leather breeches shaggy shaggy locks,
With your old leather breeches and your shaggy shaggy locks
You are pulling down the pillars of the world George Fox

Am starting to see why he hasn't forgotten it all these years!

Please, please, don't anyone mention ging gang goolie. HATED it with a vengeance.

ahhh, it was" jesus gives us the water of life"... I'd forgotten the real words and only remembered the altered version we sang at school one year. "Blue peter pipes bring water for life..". BP were doing one of their appeals raising money for a water project in developing world.

did anyone sing one that went

All over the world,
Everywhere, where the ?????
....
Chorus: everybody's building, everybody's building,
Everybody's building day by day
everybody's building, everybody's building
evrybody's building in a diiiiiii-ferent way"

I can't remember the verse/s, my friend made up alternative words may be about to out myself

All over the world, everywhere, where the frogs live
and where the elephants die

I used to play the harmonies on recorder in Y5 and 6, we got to stand at the back corner of the hall near the piano, and we had our own copies of the music (so nur)!

Do love this thread. My Year 5/6 teacher always said she wanted 'Autumn Days' sung by a primary school as one of her desert island discs.

Oh, and going back to you'll never get to heaven- once you became an older Guide/Ranger, we used to sing 'on a boy scout's knee, because you'll never know, where his hands will be'....

Kladd coulda been worse- you had a head like ggrotbags, my mum actuallyw ent tos chool with grotbags LMAO- the aldy who palyed her anyway.

When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old...
Colours of day dawn into the mind...
When I needed a neighbour..
If I had a hammer.....
Have you seen the old man in the closed down market..

Oh those were the days! :) Come on all you pessimists, you know you used to love singing in assembly!

colours of day and when the saints go marching in the only time we didn't lip sync

I think we should organize a songs of praise meet-up! 2 specially chosen MNers can place the acetates on an OHP, those of you who can play recorder, should do so and then all we need is a pianist.

I bagsy one of the OHP 'jobs' though

All over the world
Everywhere, where the sun shines
And where the children play
In the ??? ??? and ??? ???
Hands are busy and plans are laid
And slowly, slowly, slowly somebody's hoooouse is made

Everybody's building ...

I hated that song.

I think we should organize a songs of praise meet-up! 2 specially chosen MNers can place the acetates on an OHP, those of you who can play recorder, should do so and then all we need is a pianist.

ME! ME! ME! Pick me. Please pick me.

Can we be a quiche?

In the things we do and the things we say...

That was filling in Kladdkaka's blanks :)

Miss, miss,

its my turn!