Religion songs we learned at Primary school

Jaygon2009

Not sure if the primary school curriculum changed for Religion since the mid nineties but a lot of the songs I learned at school don't seem to be in the newer books.

Jesus sat under the shade of a tree
Here I am Lord
The 12 apostles song (there was Peter and Andrew, James and John......)
Join your hands together
Children of the universe

anyone remember these sort of songs and what company recorded them?

Cows Go µ

I don't remember any of those I'm afraid and I was a nineties kid

I used to love All Things Bright And Beautiful, I am the Lord of The Dance (or something to that effect) and Shine, Jesus Shine (I think I only like that one because I had to sing it in a school play)

Muppet Man

Dont remember them to be honest, but I remember learning a Latin hymn for my confirmation... I'll always remember the first two lines...

Ecce panis angelorum
Factus Cibus viatorum

Spelling is probably all wrong and havent a clue what it meant...

In fact, now that I think about it, I do remember learning "Be not afraid".

Muppet Man.

Jaygon2009

I remember the three of those!

Muppet Man

Sweet mother of all things holy....I got the spelling right...

http://www.chantcd.com/lyrics/ecce_panis_angelorum.htm



Is there anything that Goolge doesnt know

Muppet Man

Cows Go µ

You have to sing a latin hymn when you get comfirmed? I'm now glad I didn't get confirmed.

Jaygon2009

Children of the universe went something like this:

This is a call to the children of the universe,
to all forgotton people in far off foreign lands.
We know you hope for a world that shares tomorrow,
Where no one will be hungry
there will be no need to cry

Join your hands:

Join your hands together, join you hands together
lets build bridges for the world.
If we listen to the stories, we'll grow strong in glory
learn to communicate
touch, see and hear

Latchy

'' St La salle our dearest brother '' and a rake of Latin stuff .

Have to mention this now cos i'll forget tomorrow

Muppet Man

Not sure you HAD to sing a latin hymn, but we were taught by the Christian Brothers, and I think they wanted to try and impress the Bishop of the diocese with a latin hymn during the conferral.

Those Christian Brother dudes were big into their latin

Muppet Man.

Jaygon2009

I was a De la Salle boy too!

Jack Sheehan

Walk in the light of the Lord? Or in Irish 'Siul i Solas Dei.'

Muppet Man

yeah, I remember "walk in the light"

There's a few coming back to me now...

Ruu_Old

This thread should help.

Latchy

Muppet Man wrote: »

Those Christian Brother dudes were big into their latin

They sure were

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

I was a De la Salle boy too!

And that ment something right ?

none of those ' yeah , we know now dude ' replys either

Jaygon2009

errr, no, not sure it meant anything. I was just saying.

SwirlsAllAround

Ah, one of my favourite topics!

I remember most of those songs. My personal favourites include "We Come to You Lord Jesus" which is still very popular in schools today and "Cead Mile Failte Romhat"....Every school mass we had in secondary included "Here I am Lord" and "City of God".

The Religion curriculum of the late 1980s and 1990s was the "Children of God" series....I remember all the tapes were old and always sounded really muffled.

Latchy

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

errr, no, not sure it meant anything. I was just saying.

But if it didn't mean anything to you ,ya wouldn't have mentioned in first place , now would ya ?

Jaygon2009

Thanks for all the responses! I will check that 'Children of God' series out

Jaygon2009

@Swirlsallaround,
Can you remember what any of those books from that series were called?

Whosbetter?

Yeah,rem some of that stuff.

'Workers for the kingdom' went down well alright.:rolleyes:

Also I rem 'I'm a soldier in God's army'.
We used to substitute God for Dad in that one.:D

Just talking to Mrs Whosbetter? on this & she wonders if I was raised in Russia!!:eek:

SwirlsAllAround

Erm, I think one was called "Grow in Love" and another was "Remember Me Together". Are you doing a project or something?

Jaygon2009

I'm a secondary school teacher thinking of doing some reseach into curriculum development in primary and post primary education in the last 30 years. National Archives great for records and syllabii changes but not so great on supplying or listing the older books.

SwirlsAllAround

That sounds interesting.

I see on your other post you're looking for info on Irish books too.
I was looking for old Irish books back in October and found www.litriocht.ie very useful. There isn't much left now but have a look anyway.

"Suas Liom" was the 4th class book btw .

Jaygon2009

Thanks Swirls:
It is turning out to be very interesting. I'm going to put up an english reader query too.
Why the interest in Irish, if you don't mind me asking?

Whosbetter?

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Thanks Swirls:
It is turning out to be very interesting. I'm going to put up an english reader query too.
Why the interest in Irish, if you don't mind me asking?

FF voter obviously. :rolleyes:

SwirlsAllAround

I'm a primary teacher (NQT) and old text books are a great resource, especially for Gaeilge. I haven't managed to get hold of many but the best places to look are second-hand bookshops outside of Dublin. Busy at Maths (as gaeilge) is available on the Litriocht site btw.

Jaygon2009

Excecellent. I teach Irish at second level. Would you happen to know what the Religion curriculum is at primary level? There dosn't seem to be a syllabus in the 1999 revised syllabii and i haven't got back as far as Curaclam na Gaeilge (1971) yet.

Re: Gaeilge
Other than the readers and the bog liom series, I don't remember other Gaeilge resources we used at schools.
I do remember the Bun go Barr series coming in around 1995

SwirlsAllAround

Ok, I don't know about the 1971 Curriculum, but as regards the 1999 Curriculum there isn't a Religion component, it's completely separate. The curriculum for Religion is essentially the Alive-O series.

Alive-O is the updated version of the Children of God series, the same people are behind it. There's a teacher's manual which is the closest thing I've seen to a Religion curriculum. It lays out the 30 minute lesson for each school day for the entire year, among other things.

As for the Gaeilge, there were definitely other books around when I was in school, if I can remember any of the names of these books I'll get back to you.

Jaygon2009

Thanks for the info! I thought it was strange there was no official Dept. Curriculum.
I guess it must be optional these days!

SwirlsAllAround

Jaygon, sent you a PM.

Lizzykins

I was at primary school in 1971 and all I remember is Buntus Cainte! It was INCREDIBLY boring. For religion I remember we had these purple books and also a catechism too or maybe they were one and the same!

Jaygon2009

This is all great info and really helping me with my research. Please feel free to add if anything comes to mind.

I'm not having much look finding copies of old Religion or Gaeilge books.

Ann22

I loved Religion 'cos we always got to draw pictures:)..oh the joys of it, I can still remember the smell of the crayons in my warm little hand and those cool little stories with the little cartoon illustrations (where all the characters had big noses) in the text books:o.
I remember for our First Communion, singing 'Suffer little children' and one I haven't heard since 'Sons of God'(-'hear his holy word, gather round the table of the Lord, eat His Body, drink His Blood, now we'll sing a song of love, allehlu, allehlu, allehlu, allehluia').
For Confirmation we sang 'All the earth proclaim the Lord' which was a responsorial type hymn...and 'Come Holy Spirit'. The Latin one we sang was Veni Creator-
Veni, creator Spiritus
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia,
quae tu creasti pectora.

bullets

Im not religious at all, and Hated Religion class.
But I did get a yellow book of songs that they used to sing
at Church when I was a kid.

There was one where I liked the Lyrics as it was more story
like:

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
That is the reason the Scriptures record
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord

Well the Lord looked down from gis window in the sky
And said I created man but I don't remember why
Nothin' but fightin' since creation day
I'll send a little water and I'll wash'em all away

So the Lord came down to look around a spell
And there he found Noah behavin' mighty well
And that is the reason the Scriptures record
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord...

The Lord said Noah there's gonna be a flood
And there's gonna be some water and there's gonna be some mud
Take off your hat Noah and take off your coat
Get a handshave and shave that and build yourself a boat

Noah said Lord I don't believe I could
The Lord said Noah get some sturdy gopher wood
Ya never know what you can do till you try
Build it fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord...

Now Noah said there it is there it is Lord
The Lord said Noah it's time to get aboard
Now take a creature a he and a she
And of course Mrs Noah and the whole family

Noah said Lord it's gettin' mighty dark
The Lord said Noah get these creatures in the ark
Noah said Lord it's beginnin' to pour
The Lord said Noah hurry up and shut the door

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord...

Well the ark rose up on the foot of the deep
And after forty days Mr Noah took a peek said
We ain't movin' Lord where are we at
The Lord said you're sittin' on a mount Ararat

Noah said Lord it's gettin' mighty dry
The Lord said Noah see My rainbow in the sky
Take all the creatures and people to earth
And don't be more trouble than you're worth

Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord
And he landed high and dry and he landed high and dry
And he landed high and dry

Shifty

maybe these guys could help you.

http://www.curriculumonline.ie/index.asp?locID=2

Jaygon2009

Thanks Shifty,
I've pretty much exhausted all of the online resources. The National Archives is a great resource but does not keep copies of old books for obvious reasons. TBH Gaeilge is the focus of my academic study but I must admit that all of this digging really is bringing back a lot of memories and I'm enjoying looking at other subjects, even if nothing comes of it.

Jaygon2009

'Yahwah I know you are near', is another one I remember for that era of school!

Loomis

"Fish grow fins
To tickle and wriggle and swim
Birds grow beaks to peck and pick
And I'm growing up to be me."

OrangeDaisy

This is bringing back so many memories!!! This one I remember is
'Home is happy, home is glad,
Home is with my mam and dad,
Home is mam and dad and me, playing together after tea'
There's a bit more to it but I remember we weren't allowed to sing it after a few years, it was taken off the curriculum.

Jaygon2009

'It is right to give you thanks and praise-for people around who love me'.

'Children gather round the lord-listen,
hear the message of his word-listen'.

The shoe shine boy song!


Does anyone have copies of these old tapes?????? I tried Veritas but no luck

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Cows Go µ wrote: »

I don't remember any of those I'm afraid and I was a nineties kid

I used to love All Things Bright And Beautiful, I am the Lord of The Dance (or something to that effect) and Shine, Jesus Shine (I think I only like that one because I had to sing it in a school play)

I remember Shine Jesus Shine, but only from one of those US bible-belt Christian CDs that was advertised ad nausem on Screensport

Songs i can recall
Sing Hosanna
Cead Mile Faile, a Iosa
He's got the whole world in His pants hands
And a hymn with the line "peace is flowing like a river" which I always thought was just asking to be misheard...

kraggy

Anyone have "There's one way to peace..." when they were in school?

Went something like this:

There's one way to peace by the power of the cross and his banner over me his love,
Repeat
Repeat
His banner, over me, his love.

Did it on the altar for my Communion with actions and all.

Was class.

Hunchback

come sing a song of joy
for god is like a father
sing sing a song of joy
for he said love each other

come people of god and sing
a song that will ring for evermore
and then something something something
for god is like a father


can't remember anymore, but does this ring a bell with anyone?

Thumpette

I dunno if anyone remembers but there was one we learned called Harrembay or something?....

One of the verses was something like

Here at home in Ireland our complaints are few,
We can look around and find so many things to do,
Seeds and schools and factories with plently and to share,
With people near and far away to make our lives more fair...

Harrembay harrembay harrembay, lets grow together,
Harrembay, day by day

(dont think the words were Harrembay though)

There was one about zachaus too...

Zacheus was a tiny little man,
He frightened all the people in the land,
If their rent they couldnt pay he would take their home away,
and their furniture and everything they had


something like that!

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Thumpette wrote: »

Zacheus was a tiny little man,
He frightened all the people in the land,
If their rent they couldnt pay he would take their home away,
and their furniture and everything they had


something like that!

I came in to say that one

Zacchaeus was a greedy little man
He cheated all the people in the land
when the rent they did not pay
He would take their lands away
And their furniture and everything they had

JimiTime

Des wrote: »

I came in to say that one

Zacchaeus was a greedy little man
He cheated all the people in the land
when the rent they did not pay
He would take their lands away
And their furniture and everything they had

Zacchayyyyy...us, Zacchayyy...us:) Oh the memories.

Anyone remember 'freely'.

Freely, freely, you have recieved, freely, freely give
Go in my name and because you believe,
others will know that I live.

Or 'Praise God'. This had some real dark minor chords in it. Really liked it.

'Praise God, praise him, praise the name of our lord.

Sahadows and sunlight, dew from the morning air
All that is yours you love oh lord of liiiiife.

Praise God.....
remeber 'growing up' and the apostles song too.

milly4ever

the come and praise hymn books were great, still have mine!

Jaygon2009

I have found most of the 'Children of God' series books that have these songs, but the tapes are prooving impossible to find!
Does any teacher have copies?

Catmcl

hey do ya know where i can get the full words to this song

anplaya

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

"Fish grow fins
To tickle and wriggle and swim
Birds grow beaks to peck and pick
And I'm growing up to be me."

growing up,growing up to be,
a caterpillar grows into a butterfly,
and a seed grows into a flower,
fish grow fins,
to wriggle and wraggle and swim,
birds grow beaks to peck and pick,
and im growing up to be me.

think thats the version i learnt anyway

ynul31f47k6b59

I remember Cead Mile Failte Romhat a Iosa, When Creation was Begun, Walk in the Light, He's got the Whole World in his hands, Give me Joy in my Heart, Be Not Afraid, Zacchaeus (I had to read the story of him at my first confession, couldn't pronounce his name), and a few more.

My mum was in charge of the choir at mass for years, and was responsible for coming to the school to teach the school choir the songs for Communion and Confirmation. I'm sure there are tapes and song books lying round at home - I will ask her if she has any information and I'll post here - if that's any help to anyone.

This was my favourite one - I loved singing it:

Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, And his righteousness
And all these things shall be added unto you,
Allelu- Alleluia.
AAAAAAAlllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeellllluuuuuuuuiiiiiiiaaaaa