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ALmost all of the singing in my Catholic primary school was religious and often a bit dull and drone-y. We did, however sing this on occasion. I have no idea why.
@ gallowayboy - did you do “ give me gas in my ass, keep me farting as well” ?
“When a night won his spurs” or something like that. When planning our wedding we were shown some orders of service as examples, someone had it as their hymn!
Lots of Welsh stuff...can still sing along to Calon Lan at the rugby
@ bsims when I was at school, ass was still a donkey.....
Yeah for us to but arse didn’t really fit I guess!
Bobby shaftoe what happened to him?
Had some sort of knee problem, apparently.
https://hymns.fandom.com/wiki/Come_and_Praise
Is what you sang if you are now middle aged.
Sydney Carter was commissioned to write for this book. His hymns are still sung today. Lord of the Dance being the most well known.
If you lived near a port you might have sung "They that go down to the sea in ships" and then got a fit of the giggles at the second line "That do business in great waters"
Johnny has roots in Fife, Falkland/Strathmiglo and we had to sing this at primary skool much faster
I honestly read this as “Shit yourself in an assembly?”
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Subscriber“When a night won his spurs” or something like that. When planning our wedding we were shown some orders of service as examples, someone had it as their hymn!
I loved that one. And the anchor song but mostly because it's actually really hard to sing and nobody could do the low bits because we were all like 8 years old, so it was always pretty funny
While the rest of the assembly were singing some Catholic shite, me and my mates used to lean in and sing Jam songs!
Although I did quite like a, song called Colours of Day:
Verse 1
Colours of day dawn into the mind,
The sun has come up, the night is behind,
Go down in the city, into the street,
And let’s give the message to the people we meet.
Chorus
So light up the fire and let the flame burn,
Open the door, let Jesus return,
Take seeds of His Spirit, let the fruit grow,
Tell the people of Jesus, let His love show.
Verse 2
Go through the park, on into the town,
The sun still shines on, it never goes down,
The Light of the world is risen again,
The people of darkness are needing a friend.
Chorus
So light up the fire and let the flame burn,
Open the door, let Jesus return,
Take seeds of His Spirit, let the fruit grow,
Tell the people of Jesus, let His love show.
Verse 3
Open your eyes, look into the skies,
The darkness has gone, the Son came to die,
The evening draws on, the sun disappears,
But Jesus is living, His Spirit is near.
Chorus
When a Knight won his spurs.....I couldn't remember that but something stirred a thought, now I've found it on youtube I do remember it and having read the lyrics, that's quite lovely.
Still find myself singing "We have an Anchor" from time to time. Even had a work colleague, who I never knew had been a member, join me in the chorus.
2nd Bathgate
‘Come and Praise’ was the accompaniment to our primary school assemblies. Autumn days was in there and remembered for the line about your favourite football team when all the lads would shout that bit at full blast.
I misread the the thread title as:
"Shit! You sang in assembly?"
If anyone has ever heard me sing you'll understand 😉
What's wrong with the national anthem. Ordinary little primary school in south Lincolnshire hand we sang God save the queen most days.
Not school, but Sunday School, which we hated anyway. Came home and told parents we had learned a new song that morning.
"Oh, what song did you learn?"
"My ding-a-ling"
...silence...
Strangely, we didn't have to go back
I honestly can’t remember any of what was sung in assembly, it was 50-60 years ago!
Along with all the codswallop from the come and praise blue book of misery, we would occasionally troll out this little number, for special occasions mind you, like when the High Sherrif of Northumberland or Lord Mayor of Newcastle would roll up:
What’s wrong with the national anthem.
the last few lines 🙂
Did anyone else sing "I am the Lord of the Dance settee"??
School assemblies and church services have been ruined by the likes of Graham Kendrick and the happy-clappy brigade. Their fundamental error was in destroying the beauty and mystery of communal music and making it childish and banal.
This is the most hateful thread in the history of STW.
It's like having small children poke forks into your brain and scoop out bits of grey/red sticky stuff.
At junior school hymn 396 in the little green hymn book was the only one pupils seemed to quite like until a change in pianist resulted in the more upbeat 1900s tune being replaced by some awful dirge.
Whenever I try and think of the lyrics and tune all that goes through my head is TV Crimes by Black Sabbath. I think the upbeat tune was similar to the bit where it goes Holy Father, Holy ghost, who's the one who pays the most.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lo17sVDPg0&feature=share
Kum ba yah was another - seems more like an instruction to a sheep dog by a posh bloke.
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