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Listening to R3 this morning and Lord of the Dance came on. Reminded me of old school assemblies some 30 years ago.
"dance dance wherever he maybe, I am the Lord of the dance said he...."
GF hates me already today.... 😁
Oh, and Cat Stevens....
Kinda cool, looking back.
Yup... That too!
I agree OP, i loved singing this stuff!
I still have these going round my head quite often 30 odd years later
autumn days when the grass is jewelled
and the silk inside a chestnut shell
jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled
and all these things i love so well
You can build a wall around you
Stone by stone a solid ring
You can live alone in an empty home
Be in charge and be the king!!Break out!
Reach out!
Make the walls tumble down down down
Break out!
Reach out!
Make the walls tumble down.
Hilarious thread! Still quite like belting out this one even though I am firmly atheist. I think the sentiment is somewhat relevant today!
We used to have a strict welsh headmaster in junior school, so it was all hymns - then he retired and we got a new age hippy headmaster. This is one that sticks in the mind...
As a nine year old, possibly mildly on the spectrum although that was never a thing back then, it left me very confused.
'Little boxes on the hillside just the same.....there's a pink one and a green one and a blue one and a yellow one'
So not all the ****ing same then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IPMA5I3-0Jw
God I hated most of them, but lord of the dance is catchy as
Do kids still do this?
Just asked my sister if my nephew does but she says school is for him like fight club or some secret society. He doesn't tell anyone what happened at school.
Big Scots nanny...I know that one. 37th Menzieshill BB.
I can remember in primary school all sitting in a circle round a teacher with a guitar singing Kumbaya - yes really just like the sterotype!
Ponder anew.
I found out what it means years after.
@retro83 - autumn days was the first song that came to my mind. I quite liked it.
@funkmasterp - lord of the dance was the second, quite an ear worm isn't it!
No-one has mentioned “Shine, Jesus, shine” yet...
Probably the worst ear worm of all at my school.
I remember all that sort of stuff in our assemblies when I was at primary school, I never sang any of it though as I hated singing and thought it was all a load of rubbish 😈
It was right up there with country dancing in the torture stakes!
Autumn days and Lord of the Dance deco definitely in the memory.
Probably Morning Has Broken too...
Do kids still do this?
Probably not - I did some work in a primary school a few years back and the primary school day has gotten really short and really busy - no assembly just straight into lessons, a short lunch and no afternoon break. I'm used to working 11 hour days in film but I found 9-3 in a school exhausting because there are just now pauses.
He doesn’t tell anyone what happened at school.
Theres probably not much to tell - theres not really much chance for kids to interact with one another - I bet you memories of school are more of play and friendship than lessons.
Now aside from the songs - what technology did you employ? I remember the technological break through of the hand written lyrics on an overhead projector being introduced. Like all new labour saving technologies it heralded mass redundancies: The two kids who's job it was to hold up the lyrics written in magic marker on the back of a roll of wallpaper got sacked.
Autumn days was certainly a popular one, otherwise I remember All things bright and beautiful, & black and white (not Michael Jackson).
The two kids who’s job it was to hold up the lyrics written in magic marker on the back of a roll of wallpaper got sacked.
Pre ohp they were in "books" of hand written lyrics reproduced on the banda machine
on the band a machine
Awwww the purple ink and the intoxicating aroma of freshly printed Banda machine worksheets.
OHP for me. Primary school late 80's.
What's a Banda machine?
This sycophantic twaddle:
Shit you sang in assembly….
Yes all of it!
Anyone ever sing ‘Hungry, Hungry’? It was far and away my favourite song.
What’s a Banda machine?
A sort of hand-cranked photocopier that could duplicate handwritten / drawn pages from a master copy that your made with a special stylus. The ink was faint and purple and the whole apparatus stank of meths.
Also known as a Spirit Duplicator - although that sounds a bit Ghostbusters.
Very much a sign of my age, but I do have strong memories of singing the wind of change in a special assembly and lots of singing of "gimme hope Jo'anna" and "something inside so strong" at primary school.
What’s a Banda machine?
It's the ultimate reward for doing well in class.
I think I discovered irony the day we finished off a 'Mass for Peace' with the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The wonders of a Catholic education....
Apart from the persistent aroma of meths the other solvent constantly in the air was magic markers.
My year at primary school was particularly large for some reason 50 odd kids rather than around 30 so was split into two classes of 30 and 20 and the smaller group were crammed into a room that wasn't supposed to be a class room.
The teacher arranged for us to do a whole-class giant colouring in thing - pushed all the tables together and we all worked together on one huge drawing. The pens were sensibly water based but for some reason we only had a solvent based black. So responsibly the teacher decided the black parts of the drawing should be her responsibility. Its was a huge, metal bodied fat tip marker and reeked. Stretched out across the tables she was getting the full force of the fumes evaporating off the paper in the tiny airless room..... and blacked out, face planted on the table and slid listlessly onto the floor.
As a class we all just looked on in silence - not really sure whether this was brilliant or whether we were going to get in trouble for killing her.
Used to sing a song about coffee. I have no idea if it was a known song or just something the music teacher made up.
C..O..F..F..E..E, coffee tastes nicer than tea...
And can't remember the rest.
Also weird junior school kids singing about coffee and tea.
What’s a Banda machine?
A form of drug control with the vapours it gave off. Nice smell though.
My year at primary school was particularly large for some reason 50 odd kids rather than around 30
Baby boom after VE day? 😉
Baby boom after VE day?
🙂
Its a question I've always meant to ask here - my school was on a new build estate that was built around the time I was born - so it made sense the school has a higher than usual class size for people my age because a larger number if young families would have moved into the area all at once.
But it was the same at secondary school - all the classes in our year were doubled up - but it was a much larger catchment so I don't think one housing estate would account for that.
Was there a huge spike in berths nationally in 1971? or just in the WA11 postcode?
C..O..F..F..E..E,
around about 5 mins maybe?
"I was cold I was naked"
Giggles round the hall every time.
All things bright and beautiful, Water of life etc.
Basically lots of Jesus songs, it was crap. (This was at a normal primary school in the 90s). Also used to have a minister come in so many times a year to preach at us.
Complete and utter waste of time, except possibly instilling enough discipline to sit on your arse in silence for a period of time.
Kookaburra who sat on the old gumtree, it was made tricky as the smartypants teacher tried to get half the class 10 seconds behind, then there was Bobby shaftoe what happened to him?
Almost forgot about the tuneing fork off the desk
around about 5 mins maybe?
Not the same but love that. The whole episode. Is that an adult education thing?
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God this is dragging me back to an unhealthy mix of happy clappy stuff with the rocking rev. from a neighbouring parish who brought his geetar in and the usual austere Presbyterian hymns.
My least favourite was Jesus bids us shine....
Is that an adult education thing?
adult literacy thing - that montage at the start is amazing. Isn’t Martin Shaw pretty!
Wish the rest of the series was available
Holy, Holy, Holy (two fullbacks and a goalie)
Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet
Kumbaya
Lyrics up on the overhead projector, which you'd deliberately put on backwards when it was your turn, just for the laughs 🙂
I was born '67 so at primary school in the 70s and remember a fair few of those. Sadly, having a poor memory I don't remember any titles and have had to have a Google; this one popped up which I certainly remember singing.
Ah, sing bananas....
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.
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‘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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