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 only realised partly through that this was a zombie thread, oh well, it is still relevant.

I was thinking of the Jonah songs recently when I found out that Nineveh is the place we now know as Mosul, Iraq (I guess a lot of people already know that but I only just realised).

@Watermelon - Really? thank you so much. I've learnt something new today.

Have you heard the raindrops drumming on the rooftops...
Number 2 in the book I seem to recall.

I don't remember that one about Autumn Days (I think I'm too old) but I'm a bit about jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled. Is that supposed to be a good thing?

Well it's one of things we were supposed to remember to "say a great big thank you" for @morningtoncrescent62 , so I suppose so

Six years late, but something like the third post on this thread is quoting from African Jigsaw which is a school cantata, like Noah's Floating Ark and, already puzzled over, Sweeney Todd. Dramatic songs about Shanty Towns.

Thanks, thread, for a weekend's worth of earworms.

Ineverpromisedyouarosegarden famous song,still played on the radio now which is probably where you remember it from. Lovely song,and very sad

Does anyone else remember songs such as Autumn Days

My DCs' primary had a competition to see if anyone could come up with a more fitting alternative line to "jet planes meeting in the air to be refueled" but they never announced any winners, so I suppose everyone else struggled to come up with things to rhyme with "jeweled" too!

Love this thread (Zombie or otherwise). I've been trying to remember a song with the words, "a land flowing with milk and honey, a land for" - and I can't remember who it was for - maybe me. Or you. Or us? Can't find any reference to said lyrics on the wonderweb but I think it was in Come and Praise. Anyone else remember it? I keep singing that bit over and over. Agghhh!

Will try and replace it for now with, "The ink is black, the page is white.." or "Cross over the road my friend.."

Our primary school was considered very advanced as it taught French in what would now be Year 5&6.

Nothing written down, no grammar, but things like French skipping songs, telling the time in French, and learning how to buy things is a shop.

One of the highlights was the French pantomime.

It was a large school, and imagination was needed to create enough parts.

I was "French speaking tree number 6" and my best friend was "French speaking tree number 5".

The brown and green nylon costumes were horrendous, but I can still remember my starring line "Vite, vite, vite, la petite chapeau rouge", for any French speaking Little Red Riding Hood fans out there ......

And I can remember HATING kiss chase, especially a horrid boy called Adam.

All the teachers just used to turn a blind eye.

Does anyone remember a song with the lines,"there is life in a word, when it's written or read '???