hymns

[Marine Boy]

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A reference to a post on here from last year; I found this picture:



But I still can't find a picture of the smaller books with green and blue wavey lines on the cover.

[culnara]

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hmmmmm, maybe a wee bit risque, but the only hymn I remember singing at school with my mates was the following, only word we changed was " Dance/d " to " wonk/ed " with an "a"

LOL

I danced in the morning when the world was young
I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun
I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth
At Bethlehem I had my birth

Dance, dance, wherever you may be
I am the lord of the dance, said he
And I lead you all, wherever you may be
And I lead you all in the dance, said he

I danced for the scribes and the Pharisees
They wouldn't dance, they wouldn't follow me
I danced for the fishermen James and John
They came with me so the dance went on

Dance, dance, wherever you may be
I am the lord of the dance, said he
And I lead you all, wherever you may be
And I lead you all in the dance, said he

I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame
The holy people said it was a shame
They ripped, they stripped, they hung me high
Left me there on the cross to die

Dance, dance, wherever you may be
I am the lord of the dance, said he
And I lead you all, wherever you may be
And I lead you all in the dance, said he

I danced on a Friday when the world turned black
It's hard to dance with the devil on your back
They buried my body, they thought I was gone
But I am the dance, and the dance goes on

Dance, dance, wherever you may be
I am the lord of the dance, said he
And I lead you all, wherever you may be
And I lead you all in the dance, said he

They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that will never, never die
I'll live in you if you'll live in me
I am the Lord of the dance, said he

Dance, dance, wherever you may be
I am the lord of the dance, said he
And I lead you all, wherever you may be
And I lead you all in the dance, said he

[Marcella]

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Our hymns were on a huge scroll.

The one I liked to sing the best was 'Jesus loves me this I know'.

[Lilacmoon]

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We sang that one too... Give me joy in my heart ( sing hosanna)

Yep, we sang 'Give me oil in my lamp' and 'Cum by ah' .... with the obligatory changes!

[Lilacmoon]

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Blimey, reading through this thread, I've just remembered 'When A Knight Won His Spurs' ..... and bizarrely found myself recalling almost every word!!!!




"When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old,
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold;
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand,
For God and for valour he rode through the land.

No charger have I, and no sword by my side,
Yet still to adventure and battle I ride,
Though back into storyland giants have fled,
And the knights are no more and the dragons are dead.

Let faith be my shield and let joy be my steed
'Gainst the dragons of anger, the ogres of greed;
And let me set free with the sword of my youth,
From the castle of darkness, the power of the truth."

[Marine Boy]

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One of my favourites. And I think your memory is bang on!

[Techno]

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I remember as a teenager objecting to the line "saved a wretch like me" in Amazing Grace.

[ericthecavalier]

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A reference to a post on here from last year; I found this picture:



But I still can't find a picture of the smaller books with green and blue wavey lines on the cover.

God that takes me back - but I always thought the kids looked like yobs

[Jamo]

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Our hymns were on huge dangling books or pads that were suspended high up on both sides of the assembly hall in my primary school. Tatty-edged, they seemed so archaic. I can't recall if I ever saw how they turned over the pages. Maybe with a hook and pole. Perhaps it was a prefect's job.

Then, around 1979 or 1980, the future arrived in the form of an overhead projector. Hymns were hand-written (by teachers I expect) onto clear plastic sheets in coloured felt-tips. We vied for the job of overhead projector operator but it was given to the smallest boy in class. This was so his head wouldn't get in the way and cause a shadow.

[Marillion]

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We weren't given the words at all - we were expected to just learn them by heart. Hymn practice was to me always a chore. I never sang along with the others, I just mimed the words - I thought it was silly to sing in a crowd.

And people think it's just my old age that makes me cynical.

[Trickyvee]

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Those kids on the front of the Come and Praise book are permanently etched into my memory thanks to the many hours of staring at them during boring assemblies. The funny looking one in the middle with the weird eyebrows, the one that is asleep, the one with a propellar for a nose, the smug smiley one at the front and the one with his gob open lol. I wonder where they are now?

[Star Attraction]

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Perhaps those kids never existed. Rather than being a photograph of actual kids, it might have been an abstract painting or drawing by an artist.

[tonyfinster]

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my infant and junior school had a huge, thick and very old flip chart thing that was hoisted up on high with a pulley and rope system,
My secondary school had these books that they gave you as you filed into the hall. They had a blue cover, were falling apart and had a peculiar smell that all old books seem to have.
It was quite a battle holding a fist full of paper and string binding together whilst searching for the hymn chosen by the headmaster. Most of the time i used to mouth the words so when the teachers scanned the hall i wouldnt get hauled out afterwards and given the usual standing outside the heads office punishment for such a transgression.
Christmas carols were always sung with great gusto, including all the new words we also typically substituted, the worst thing we had to sing was the school song.
It was partly in latin and the words where slightly longer than the music allowed so it was quite unpopular and awkward to sing
Floreat scholas Almondburiensis was its name, i think that says it all.

[Richard1978]

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I might have mentioned before that one of the teachers at my primary school used to complain that people were (badly) mouthing along rather than singing, "like a tank full of goldfish" was her description.

[tulip]

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All I remember is "We three kings of Orient are,2 in a taxi,one in a car.One on a scooter,blowing his hooter......

Yes,I see that makes 4,but hey ho!

tulip