hymns

[Techno]

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

[Marine Boy]

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

[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."

[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!

[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'.

[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

[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.

[moonvisage]

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We had small red hymn books.When i first went into assembly in the first form,the older boys sitting next to us would have to share their books with us younger ones,when we all stood up to sing.In reality,they never really shared the books,they would hog it to themselves,and maybe tip it once in a blue moon in the direction of the first formers eyes,so the first former got at least one glance of a hymn.

[Marine Boy]

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I had forgotten "When a knight won his spurs". I loved "Oh jesus I have promised" to the new tune, had it at my wedding. Would of had "IF I was a butterfly" but no one would let me.

Sorry for posting twice in a row, I don't know how to put multiple quotes in a reply. :cry:

*bump"

I still don't know how to do muliple quotes from different posts. lol

'If I were a Butterfly' is a staple in the schools I've worked in over the past 15 years, but I don't recall it at school in the 70s.

[Star Attraction]

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I love Autumn days, heardly anyone knows it, I annoy my husband alot with it. We never sung it in assembly, only at hymn practice.

Okay, here's as much as I can remember of Autumn Days from the BBC hymn book Come And Praise.

Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
And the silk inside a chestnut shell
Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled
All these things I love so well

So I mustn't forget
No I mustn't forget
To say a great big thank you
No I mustn't forget

The above is what I know from memory. During my last year or two at primary school we sang that sometimes, and that's how much of it has stuck in my memory. The music teacher noticed whenever we were asked to choose a hymn, we always picked the same ones, and Autumn Days never got picked, basically because we'd never sung it (I don't think it had been on the BBC radio show "A Service For Schools" which we always used to listen to each Thursday morning week by week). Therefore the music teacher decided to teach us Autumn Days, hoping we would want to sing it when given the chance to choose a hymn.

[smurfie1]

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On Friday mornings we had hymn practise for the hymns we would be singing the following week. At the end there was usually time for requests. I think 'When a Knight Won his Spurs' was favourite, with 'Lord of the Dance' coming a close second. I also recall 'Oh Jesus I have Promised' - to the modern bouncy tune, and 'As Jacob with Travel'.

I had forgotten "When a knight won his spurs". I loved "Oh jesus I have promised" to the new tune, had it at my wedding. Would of had "IF I was a butterfly" but no one would let me.

Sorry for posting twice in a row, I don't know how to put multiple quotes in a reply. :cry:

[smurfie1]

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Ahh I loved the songs we used to sing in assembly, from a blue "Come and Praise" book - the ones I can remember are:

When I Needed a Neighbour (we all giggled during the "I was cold, I was naked" part)
Autumn Days(?)
Lord of the Dance
Kumbayah
He's Got the Whole World In His Hands

looooads more that I can't remember now! And I loved Christmas time, we had a different book and just sang carols...aaah, magical!!

I love Autumn days, heardly anyone knows it, I annoy my husband alot with it. We never sung it in assembly, only at hymn practice.

[Richard1978]

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Ahh yeah! I loved that one - at the end of the chorus when it went "together we learn to read and write, to read and write" we would all yell out "DOOPY-DOOP-DOOP-DOOP" and it drove our teacher nuts!


You didn't go to a school in North Yorkshire did you? I did the same thing with London's Burning (at primary school at the time), I think it was some sort of radio thing a lot of schools took part in? Talk about a waste of time!!

Mine rewrite had the lines "Together we learn to scream & bite, scheme & fight", "Now the end of the world has just begun, so let's bring out the worst in everyone, everyone"!

I'm not sure if I actually dared to sing them in assembly, but I remember attempting to hit very high notes at the end of some lines, like I did with Lord Of The Dance.

I was at Marple Hall School when we sang London's Burning ad nauseum.

[Marine Boy]

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...At secondry school we didn't bother with hymns in assembly, apart from one time we had to sing London's Burning for about 10 minutes non-stop for no obvious reason.

Don't recall having to sing that, but at secondary school, I experienced the same thing as you. We just didn't seem to sing like we did in primary. On the odd occasion there was a song or hymn, hardly anybody joined in and I think the teachers just gave up.

I remember a new music teacher arriving, Mrs Yendol, (sp?). She was very enthusiastic, determined to turn things round and get us all singing. My memory is that even she failed.

[Solo]

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The Ink Is Black, The Page Is White" (which I came up with a cheeky resung version).

Ahh yeah! I loved that one - at the end of the chorus when it went "together we learn to read and write, to read and write" we would all yell out "DOOPY-DOOP-DOOP-DOOP" and it drove our teacher nuts!

At secondry school we didn't bother with hymns in assembly, apart from one time we had to sing London's Burning for about 10 minutes non-stop for no obvious reason.

You didn't go to a school in North Yorkshire did you? I did the same thing with London's Burning (at primary school at the time), I think it was some sort of radio thing a lot of schools took part in? Talk about a waste of time!!