Assembly songs in the UK

cynder · 18-08-2010 10:05AM #1

I spent 4 years at primary school in the uk and during this time we went to assembly every morning and sang hymns, it was a protestant school even though we weren't protestant we still took part.

These are the song that i remember from that time 22-26 years ago

All things bright and beautiful
Morning has broken
The wise man built his house on the rock ???? (the rain came down and the floods came up)
The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write
The lord of the dance

Edit :to add another- His got the whole world in his hands

We even sang ' the yellow submarine'

I'm sure there must be 20 more but thats all that springs to mind.

Bearing in mind this is a mostly catholic country and not too many went to primary school in the uk, does any one else have any they remember?

Also anyone who attended a Church of Ireland school! (must forget ye)

MoodeRator · 18-08-2010 10:08AM

I am the Lord of the dance settee:(

CreepingDeath · 18-08-2010 10:12AM

A nation once again

orourkeda · 18-08-2010 10:13AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9h7vziejM

Fratton Fred · 18-08-2010 10:15AM

Do Catholic schools not do hymns then?

thebigbiffo · 18-08-2010 10:20AM

our old primary teacher used to have us sing everything from puff the magic dragon (she obviously didn't get the meaning) to the national anthem.

she made us sing louder this one time as the howling of the kid getting bet to sunder by the principle in the adjoining room was distracting us...i kid you not

kfallon · 18-08-2010 11:11AM

We used to sing 'Go on Home British Soldiers' every morning before classes started......:p

prinz · 18-08-2010 11:13AM

thebigbiffo wrote: »

our old primary teacher used to have us sing everything from puff the magic dragon (she obviously didn't get the meaning)...

Or perhaps she was smart enough to know there was no drug connection to the original song. The theory that it is about drug use was added on years later and became an urban myth. It's not more about drugs than 'Thank heaven for little girls' is about paedophilia.

bonerm · 18-08-2010 11:17AM

I actually find stuff like this creepy. Like when I see US children having to do the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school. Indoctrination from a young age.

thebigbiffo · 18-08-2010 11:33AM

prinz wrote: »

Or perhaps she was smart enough to know there was no drug connection to the original song. The theory that it is about drug use was added on years later and became an urban myth. It's not more about drugs than 'Thank heaven for little girls' is about paedophilia.

ahhhhh b'ollocks. why does life always let me down? just once JUST ONCE GODDAMNIT i want cool stories like that and richard gere abusing a hamster with his anus to be true

Dyr · 18-08-2010 11:36AM

Our repetoire was "whiskey in the jar" "the merry ploughboy" "only our rivers free". We probably did a few more songs about shooting brits but those were perennial favourites

We banged out "wiela wiela" and "the bog down in the valley(o)" the odd time too for light relief.

Iwasfrozen · 18-08-2010 11:37AM

grindelwald wrote: »

The wise man built his house on the rock ????

"And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it," (Matt. 16:18)

18-08-2010 11:37AM

For some reason I have vague memories of singing Que Sara Sara

ejmaztec · 18-08-2010 11:43AM

Attending a Catholic primary school in England, we sang nothing at assembly. We just got bollocked by some old nun for ten minutes, for what happened the previous day.

LordSutch · 18-08-2010 11:47AM

grindelwald wrote: »

I spent 4 years at primary school in the uk and during this time we went to assembly every morning and sang hymns, it was a protestant school even though we weren't protestant we still took part.

These are the song that i remember from that time 22-26 years ago

All things bright and beautiful
Morning has broken
The wise man built his house on the rock ???? (the rain came down and the floods came up)
The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write
The lord of the dance

We even sang ' the yellow submarine'

I'm sure there must be 20 more but thats all that springs to mind.

Bearing in mind this is a mostly catholic country and not too many went to primary school in the uk, does any one else have any they remember?

Just curious - What part of the UK were you in? England (North/South), London, Scotland (East/West)?, N.Ireland or Wales (North/South Wales)? there are massive regional defferences . . . .

cynder · 18-08-2010 12:01PM

West midlands, England. The school was in Dudley. We even had cooked dinners and a swimming pool. What a ahock to the system when i moved to co. cork at 8.

I also remember a song called

cum by yar (or thats what it sounded like)

we also sang weird songs for the harvest -

cynder · 18-08-2010 12:02PM

MoodeRator wrote: »

I am the Lord of the dance settee:(

as i recall

praise the lord whereever he may be he is the lord of the dance settee,

what the hell is a dance settee?

ejmaztec · 18-08-2010 12:04PM

grindelwald wrote: »

West midlands, England. The school was in Dudley. We even had cooked dinners and a swimming pool. What a ahock to the system when i moved to co. cork at 8.

I also remember a song called

cum by yar (or thats what it sounded like)

we also sang weird songs for the harvest -

Are you sure it wasn't a commune?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbaya

cynder · 18-08-2010 12:06PM

bonerm wrote: »

I actually find stuff like this creepy. Like when I see US children having to do the "Pledge of Allegiance" in school. Indoctrination from a young age.

I wasn't a protestant (never baptised) , but i have very fond memories of assembly and when i hear one of the hymns i smile. Assembly could be quite fun sometimes but i dont really like the "Pledge of Allegiance" thing.

LordSutch · 18-08-2010 12:08PM

grindelwald wrote: »

West midlands, England. The school was in Dudley. We even had cooked dinners and a swimming pool. What a ahock to the system when i moved to co. cork at 8.

I also remember a song called

cum by yar (or thats what it sounded like)

we also sang weird songs for the harvest -

Don't kids sing these songs in school here too? I remember well singing "Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah", (English school), and the weird Harvest songs that you speak of are actually Harvest festival-songs/Hymns that I know for sure are sung here in the the C of I, and C of I schools.

cynder · 18-08-2010 12:35PM

LordSutch wrote: »

Don't kids sing these songs in school here too? I remember well singing "Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah", (English school), and the weird Harvest songs that you speak of are actually Harvest festival-songs/Hymns that I know for sure are sung here in the the C of I, and C of I schools.

Im sure they do, I never went to a C of I school over here only catholic schools (x 3 primary 2 in cork 1 in Waterford) but i don't recall any catholic hymns, i suppose they were all sang in the church and i never went in one. My daughter sings in the choir for her catholic school and i don't recall any of the songs that she sings, she even sings in Latin.

As for the C of I, if any one who went to school in a C of I school feel free to say what hymns you remember.

ejmaztec · 18-08-2010 12:44PM

I think all of the songs/hymns on the list are sung in schools of all denominations these days, and probably always were.

cynder · 18-08-2010 01:28PM

Not in the 3 catholic schools i went to 19-22 years ago! (unless only sang in the church but never ever in the class room)

They did sing a few of the x mas songs but not all of them.
silent night
away in a manger
never sang - little donkey or 3 wise kings

Fratton Fred · 18-08-2010 01:34PM

grindelwald wrote: »

Im sure they do, I never went to a C of I school over here only catholic schools (x 3 primary 2 in cork 1 in Waterford) but i don't recall any catholic hymns, i suppose they were all sang in the church and i never went in one. My daughter sings in the choir for her catholic school and i don't recall any of the songs that she sings, she even sings in Latin.

As for the C of I, if any one who went to school in a C of I school feel free to say what hymns you remember.

The only song I've heard my daughter sing are My Old Man's a dustman (Which I am not) with this chorus (Which made me raise an eyebrow when she started singing it...

Rule Britannia, Marmalade and Jam
We threw sausages at my old man

cynder · 18-08-2010 01:37PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

The only song I've heard my daughter sing are My Old Man's a dustman (Which I am not) with this chorus (Which made me raise an eyebrow when she started singing it...

Rule Britannia, Marmalade and Jam
We threw sausages at my old man

we never sang my old mans a dustman but i do know it, i recall some words to rule britannia but i don't ever recall singing it at school, we may have done.

ejmaztec · 18-08-2010 01:41PM

grindelwald wrote: »

Not in the 3 catholic schools i went to 19-22 years ago! (unless only sang in the church but never ever in the class room)

They did sing a few of the x mas songs but not all of them.
silent night
away in a manger
never sang - little donkey or 3 wise kings

What was sung was probably down to the musical taste of the resident neurotic singing teacher (all the ones I had were neurotic anyway, but my singing was sh1t and probably drove them to it). I don't think that any hymn has a denominational monopoly.

El Weirdo · 18-08-2010 01:43PM

grindelwald wrote: »

I spent 4 years at primary school in the uk and during this time we went to assembly every morning and sang hymns, it was a protestant school even though we weren't protestant we still took part.

These are the song that i remember from that time 22-26 years ago

All things bright and beautiful
Morning has broken
The wise man built his house on the rock ???? (the rain came down and the floods came up)
The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write
The lord of the dance

I went to a catholic primary school in England and remember singing most of them at assembly.

grindelwald wrote: »

as i recall

praise the lord whereever he may be he is the lord of the dance settee,

what the hell is a dance settee?

It's " I am the Lord of the Dance, said he".

I was actually at a wedding on Saturday and they sang that one.

Fratton Fred · 18-08-2010 02:00PM

El Weirdo wrote: »

I went to a catholic primary school in England and remember singing most of them at assembly.

It's " I am the Lord of the Dance, said he".

I was actually at a wedding on Saturday and they sang that one.

Is it not

Park Sung, whoever you may be
you eat dogs in your own country
but it could be worse
you could be a scouse
eating rats in your council house.

cynder · 18-08-2010 02:01PM

I just asked my daughter who is going into 5th class (catholic school)she only knows

morning has broken
silent night
and away in a manger

she hasn't heard any of the other songs -

the 3 wise kings we had our own version

us three kings are jolly and wise
one in a taxi
one in a car
one on a scooter papping his hooter
smoking a big cigar
oh, star of wonder
star of light
sit on a box of dynamite
light the fuse
and off we go
all the way to Mexico.

Fratton Fred · 18-08-2010 02:04PM

ejmaztec wrote: »

What was sung was probably down to the musical taste of the resident neurotic singing teacher (all the ones I had were neurotic anyway, but my singing was sh1t and probably drove them to it). I don't think that any hymn has a denominational monopoly.

Neurotic, large breasts and glasses with string on them. Usually drove an old Beetle or VW Campavan and was never, ever married.

mikom · 18-08-2010 02:08PM

grindelwald wrote: »

Bearing in mind this is a mostly catholic country and not too many went to primary school in the uk, does any one else have any they remember?

It went a little something like this.....

♫
Come out ye black and tans, come out and fight me like a man
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders
Tell her how the IRA made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra ♫

Followed by.....

♫
Dee Dee na na na

Saturday night, I feel the air
Is getting hot
Like you baby
I'll make you mine you know
I'll take you to the top
I'll drive you crazy
Saturday night, dance, I like
The way you move
Pretty baby
It's party time and not one
Minute we can lose
Be my baby

Da ba da dan dee dee dee da
Nee na na na - be my baby
Da ba da dan dee dee dee da
Nee na na na - Pretty baby
♫

Assembly songs in the UK

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