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?

The lord said to Noah, there's gonna be a floody floody....

I think that was the kangaroosy one mebbe?

'ri-ise and shi-ine and give god his glory glory'

has anyone mentioned when god made the garden of creation yet?

At least four of my friends have had the Oil in my Lamp one at their weddings!

Slightly off topic but did anyone also partake in some of the crappy musicals written for Primary School kids? We did Jospeh which is a bad example but there was also Blast Off! and Go Noah! I can still sing half the songs from those too

We also did bananas in pjamas, but I think that's still around now?

Yellow submarine, I remember too - thank you for the reminder sorry can't keep up with who said that one!

What a lovely nostalgic thread.
Well, mainly - sorry for sad memories for some

Did any of you sing

He's football crazy
He's football mad
Something something something
The best he's ever had

Or something like that, on the bus on school trips?

We had the great big sheets hauled up on a pulley system, though I was never given that job ,bitter emoticon>

There's some great ones here that I'd forgotton about - my favourites were Sing Joanna, The cold and naked one, Autumn days and My Grandfather's clock had brought back some strange memories!

Ds's go to Welsh school so I'm unlikely to hear any of these sung again by tuneful Primary aged children

Great thread OP

We had "Singing Together" books, am in NI but. Anyone for "bind us together Lord, bind us together with chords (?) that cannot be broken"

I can't talk about my Grandfathers clock [sob]

We do lots of these at my school. All is not lost everywhere.

chocoroo! yes, and we had to travel to other schools too and all sing them

did you do one about nelson and trafalgar?

Has anyone mentioned All Things Bright and Beautiful yet?

I hated Bind us Together Lord, very dirgy

bind us together Lord
bind us together
with cords that cannot be brooooooken....

crap.

greeneyes I love that one too!

What about-- make me a channel of your peace...

We sang alot of scottish songs, being we were in Scotland-

My love was born in Aberdeen, the bonniest lad that air was seen...

Oh yes- I remember all the hymns, on those weird old projectors that were wide at the top and narrower at the bottom, with the words written in felt pen in the teachers' curly writing, and the flappy-flapping noise when they had to change the plastic sheet halfway.

bit of the rest of you, though- we only got hymns. Ever.

We did a musical about the French Revolution in Primary. There were others,including one about bullying,but that's the one I remember best.
I rather enjoyed it. I was one of the nobles. They ran out of dresses for the girls,so I had to take a boy's costume. How the girls laughed! Though not as much as I laughed when they kept standing on their dresses and tripping over.

I wish I could find the libretto online.

Oh you'll never go to heaven
In an old Ford car.....
'Cos an old Ford car...
....Won't get that far.......

Quartermaster's stores, anyone?
'My eyes are din, I cannot see
I have not bought my spec with me
I have
not
bought
my
specs
with
me!

Erm, dim not din

lol at kookabura old gum tree

how old 'praise my lord the king of heaven'

and of course 'we plough the fields and scatter'

DARK TOWERS - seriously strange and really creepy ... hmm wonder what's on youtube ...

We sang Football crazy misstinateaspoon. Wasn't the line something like 'the football it has taken away the little bit of sense that he had'!

Purplepidjinawoollytangle, I am that you own Come & Praise!

chocoroo

"Go down jonah deep in to the ocean, go down jonah deep into the sea,
so jonah sank into the sea and closed his eyes and prayed and said lord Im very sorry for your words i disobeyed..."

I LOVED that, and me and one of my mates will launch into that

Who put the colours in the rainbow
Who put the salt into the sea
Who put the tree inside the acorn
Who made you and me?

That was my favourite - but loved 'Autumn days' and 'From the tiny ant'

The Butterfly song we did with actions - was brilliant.

WimbaWay

Oh you'll never get to heaven
In Teacher's Brown Owl's bra
'Cos Teacher's Brown Owl's bra
Won't stretch that far

and what was that grange hill song about stranger danger?!!

Oh I had forgotten all about th ink is black etc.

My fave was All things bright and beautiful. Was all traditional songs until the last year when we had a new teacher come to the school. Be had a 'synthesizer' so the piano went out of the door and we started singing:

Matchstick men and matchstick cats and dogs
Penny lane
When I'm 64
Bright eyes (burning like fire) which became the school favourite.

And other songs that would once have been in the charts and not a hymn book...

oh the fucking quartermasters store

we had to sing that in rounds!!!

and one about a pig with spots. they are john potts' i can tell them by the spots and i found them in the vicarage gaaaaaaaaaarden