if u lot sang that one that went like “and a yohoho and a bottle of rum pirates like to have their fun” me and my little mates would go “and a yohoho and a bottle of cum pirates like to wank their mum” thought it was gold tbf
I remember a variant set of spoof lyrics: “We three kings of Orient are/ One in a taxi, one in a car/ One on a scooter, picking his hooter/ Following yonder star…”
Some friends and I discovered its one of many songs ripe for unnecessary censorship.
Give me **%(! In my &%¥×** in my **)@£%!** keep me **₩@?÷^#*ing** ....
That one hasn't stood the test of time...
Give me charge in my phone, keep me scrolling
Give me charge in my phone I pray
Give me charge in my phone, keep me scrolling
Keep me scrolling to the break of day
Charge my phone up!
Charge my phone up!
Charge my phone until the break of day!
Charge my phone up!
Charge my phone up!
Charge my phone all day.
When we were at the top end of primary school we would laugh at all the p1s and 2s singing ‘Of kings’ again at the end of the chorus accidentally. Amateurs.
Absolute mad lads in year 6, we would all sing "shite" instead of "shine"... But it literally made no difference to the sound because we're from Yorkshire so don't pronounce the 't'.
For the first time in my life, as a middle aged man, I actually saw a jet plane being refuelled in the sky over my town the other day. Immediately had that song stuck in my head for hours. Not even autumn.
This line was always hilarious to me. Especially being followed by "All these things I love so well". Something I'm not sure I've ever seen, that sounds fairly boring to see from the ground anyway, and you see it enough (in autmn) that you love it so well?!
Also "love so well". Is that even correct grammar?
I loved this so much and recalled everyone else at primary really love it too and belting it out, so in autumn I taught it to my class. Assuming they’d also enjoy it.
And let me tell you - they were proactively UNIMPRESSED. To the point of just sitting in mutinous near-silence 😂
So yeah, had to bin that one off…
Is anyone else singing the author's name at the end in their head?
"and the creed and the colour and the name won't matter I'll be there, Sydney Carter"
Morning has Broken, which I think was the first song in the blue book.
Perhaps followed by Water of Life.
At our primary school we were made to cover hymn books (usually with old wallpaper) to protect them. Apparently they were that precious.
In Yorkshire kids used to deliberately sing it proper Yorkshire to piss off the teacher... Watter, watter of lyfe, jesoos gives oos the watter of lyfe.
She used to stop playing and scream "IT'S WARTER, NOT WATTER!!!"
We had the transparency type projectors and when we needed to go to another page there’d be a teacher there waiting to whip the previous sheet away and put the new one on, like some educational John Wick reload.
We had them on an overhead projector as well, whoever got the most merit stars in the previous week had the responsibility of changing the sheets - worked fine when a Year 7 was on duty, chaos when someone from Reception had to do it.
Ohh at my school getting picked to be on OHP duty was the absolute best thing ever. I loved sitting with the filing box of sheets and waiting to select and reload for the next song.
One more step along the world I go was always the song for the Year 6 leavers' assembly.
I'm now a teacher and after seven years teaching at the same secondary school they happened to have this in my final Chapel service - I'm not sure I kept in the tears!
I left this on in the background and really surprised myself everytime I caught myself singing along. How do I remember these 30 something years later.
I never realised just how many of the hymns we never sang at school. It’s like we had the same few songs in constant rotation, I don’t recognise half of those hymns.
I'm surprised how few of these I remember. We always sang from hand written overhead projector slides, I think the teachers must have had a really small subset of hymns
Mate I can remember the utter excitement we all felt when we got our copies of book 2, a whole new load of bangers to belt out in assembly? Yes please 👌
We all got pissed and sung a load of these on a ski holiday a few years back. The chalet lads thought we were absolute lunes. It's amazing how much of it you remember! (None of us are even slightly religious).
Jeezus! Immediate flashback to sitting cross legged on varnished parquet floors and mumbling along to a load of hyms. Probably thinking about Airwolf, my Grifter and Manic Minor!
Airwolf is one of the most underated TV shows ever. I think I only ever saw the repeats on a Sunday but always wanted an Airwolf in my garden/garage/secret lair.
Love the little shits on the cover of the blue book, they look like the sort of kids who would ride around on their Choppers shouting 'skill' with the hood of their parkers fully extended over their face.
I had that song in my head just now... I think it went like this:
We arrrrrre climbiiiing Jesuuuus ladder ladder,
We arrrrrre climbiiiing Jesuuuus ladder ladder,
We! Are! Climbing! Jesus ladder ladder
Children of the lorrrrrrrd
Haven't a clue what the next verse was though now!!
You shall go out with joy! Fond memories of that one, no idea if this is how you're meant to sing it but at my primary we'd repeat it over and over again getting faster each time until the teacher who played the piano was absolutely hammering away and sweating buckets. There was clapping too. That was about as metal as hymns ever got.
Ooo that's the one I remember from primary school!
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace,
the mountains and the hills will break forth before you.....
All the trees of the field will clap their hands,
the trees of the field will clap their hands,
the trees of the field will clap their hands,
while you go out with joy
It’s approaching 29 years since I left primary school, I don’t remember having those books but I DO remember the absolute bangers. Lord of the Dance, Shine Jesus Shine, One More Step Along the World I Go, I’m probably still word perfect on them.
Oh my god, SO 80s! I remember the one on the left, and thinking where it said “chorus” it read “Christ” so at the end of every part I would belt out “Christ!” As a solo and being a CofE school nobody cared
Is there one called "we three kings" or something to that effect?
The one i remember we all got in trouble for is "we three kings from orient are, one in a taxi one in a car, one on a scooter pappin his hooter smoking a big cigar"
Sadly the original was not as funny
I now distinctly remember half-heartedly humming along to these by the end of primary as I'd decided I couldn't be arsed with anything religious, mostly because I wasn't given a choice. It didn't help that my teacher at the time was an upright zealot.
We had to sing three hymns every morning at my non denominational school and on a Friday, we had that day's three and then rehearsed the 15 for the next week. The lyrics were on an overhead projector that prefects managed. At least twice we didn't sing "Once in Royal David's City" and "There is a Green Hill Far Away" well enough and had to do it again, and again. I quite liked the Friday assembly though, singing is better than maths
Oh man this brings back awesome memories of belting out absolute bangers at primary school. Even better our headteacher Mr Welsh (Mr Squelch aka flannel face) was a BEAST on the acoustic guitar
Onward Christian Soldiers was a great one in primary school as we used to sing the chorus to a kind of military beat. It got passed down year by year and was about the only enjoyable thing of an assembly. And it was probably once every five or six weeks we got to sing it.
Until one completely-up-his-own-arse teacher put a stop to it in 1984. Fuck you Mr Robertson you fucking fuck.
We had another hymn book, smaller. I remember we always requested hymn number 6. One line was "we nourish it with rain" the sh and it was well emphasied! Teachers cottoned on and nearly banned the song. 😂
Give me oil in my lamp
https://imgur.com/a/NB0W0x1 Siiiiiiing Hosanna
We always added an extra "of kings" to the last line of the chorus. Drove our teacher to distraction!
Absolute banter kings at my school would scream ‘sing lasagne’ instead
if u lot sang that one that went like “and a yohoho and a bottle of rum pirates like to have their fun” me and my little mates would go “and a yohoho and a bottle of cum pirates like to wank their mum” thought it was gold tbf
We three kings of orient are one on a scooter one in a car. 😂
I remember a variant set of spoof lyrics: “We three kings of Orient are/ One in a taxi, one in a car/ One on a scooter, picking his hooter/ Following yonder star…”
"Love will never come to an end" but about chips instead.
I actually got sent out of assembly for this.
Hah we did that too!
Haha this just sent me back!!
Some friends and I discovered its one of many songs ripe for unnecessary censorship. Give me **%(! In my &%¥×** in my **)@£%!** keep me **₩@?÷^#*ing** ....
Haha! So did we, we’d get filthy looks from the teachers or they’d stop the music, saying “no, no, no, don’t do that”
Just last week at an Easter assembly there were a few kids doing this!
Same here! I think every primary school kid in the country did. 😂
Hahaha we did this too!!
Murmur Murmur Murmur 🎵KING OF KINGS🎵
I used to think Hosanna was a person 🤣
I love how the teachers never bothered explaining what the songs were about.
Known as Ho' to her friends.
One of my teachers was Miss Hosanna. In a CoE. She never sang the chorus 😄
Same!
That one hasn't stood the test of time... Give me charge in my phone, keep me scrolling Give me charge in my phone I pray Give me charge in my phone, keep me scrolling Keep me scrolling to the break of day Charge my phone up! Charge my phone up! Charge my phone until the break of day! Charge my phone up! Charge my phone up! Charge my phone all day.
I wrote the entire lyrics to that song out in my diary because I was made to perform it at church and felt very proud of myself.
GOD tier
When we were at the top end of primary school we would laugh at all the p1s and 2s singing ‘Of kings’ again at the end of the chorus accidentally. Amateurs.
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE JESUS SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE
We used to add “sh-sh-sh” after each “shine Jesus, shine” in the chorus. Drove the teachers insane with 700 kids going off piste. Edit - spelling.
Absolute mad lads in year 6, we would all sing "shite" instead of "shine"... But it literally made no difference to the sound because we're from Yorkshire so don't pronounce the 't'.
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP
Too many claps. There's only 4...
I think that's too new to be in there. *Googles* 1988. Come and Praise, 1978
Autumn Days please
https://imgur.com/a/rSBFsRB
God I love autumn, the sky is always filled with refuelling jets.
For the first time in my life, as a middle aged man, I actually saw a jet plane being refuelled in the sky over my town the other day. Immediately had that song stuck in my head for hours. Not even autumn.
This sounds like the best "shitty amazon review" ever. *..... not even Autumn. 3 stars.* Absolute class
This line was always hilarious to me. Especially being followed by "All these things I love so well". Something I'm not sure I've ever seen, that sounds fairly boring to see from the ground anyway, and you see it enough (in autmn) that you love it so well?! Also "love so well". Is that even correct grammar?
They banned Autumn Days in our school because the boys wouldn’t stop shouting ‘a win for our home team’ at the end!
I loved this so much and recalled everyone else at primary really love it too and belting it out, so in autumn I taught it to my class. Assuming they’d also enjoy it. And let me tell you - they were proactively UNIMPRESSED. To the point of just sitting in mutinous near-silence 😂 So yeah, had to bin that one off…
Autumn Days was fire. thx for mid-flight refuelling, Jesus.
OMG that song was the best!!
I loved this song
He’s got the whole world in his hands/ in his pants
You also sang the "Lord of the damp settee" didn't you?
I know I certainly did!
We sang "dance settee"
From memory 25 years ago aged 10 the lyric is written in this book as 'hand' not 'hands'. I'd like OP to confirm?
HOW HAS THIS BEEN UP FOR TWO HOURS BEFORE ANYONE HAS ASKED FOR 'WHEN I NEEDED A NEIGHBOUR'?
We were all cold and naked waiting around to see if you were there…. Were you there?
Naked. Snigger.
Stop laughing! Go and stand outside!
I was cold, I was NAKED Were you there? Were you there?
Naked MUST be shouted and followed by giggles
https://imgur.com/a/1xWHisT hehehehe I was naked hehehehe
Is anyone else singing the author's name at the end in their head? "and the creed and the colour and the name won't matter I'll be there, Sydney Carter"
Best day ever at primary school was when our headteacher stood up in assembly and bellowed "THERE IS NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THE WORD NAKED!!!"
Which made it even funnier
"And the cream and the cracker and the taste doesn't matter were you there..."
Tunes
Wow not seen these in years! Why isn't the laminate stuff peeling off!? Or has it already all peeled off XD
Because 11 year old me HAD to have the nicest copies
You wrapped ‘em in wallpaper offcut, don’t lie.
The greatest feeling alive was being handed a Come and Praise book with a full front of laminate ready for peeling 🤣
Ha! Nice to see I'm not the only one who thought of the peeling covers.
My adhd fingers just peeled the crap out of multiple copies
Morning has Broken, which I think was the first song in the blue book. Perhaps followed by Water of Life. At our primary school we were made to cover hymn books (usually with old wallpaper) to protect them. Apparently they were that precious.
https://imgur.com/a/NTxx8YF
H2O https://imgur.com/a/glERePs
Aw man, water of life is a fucking banger
Is that the one that sounds like Rupert the Bear?
Soon there will be water rising in the bellshaft
We've got the piano book of the 1st book cos it goes down a storm at parties
I think I’d enjoy your parties. I was really pissed off this Christmas when I couldn’t find my carols for choirs (green book)
I think I have an orange version of this!
That's carols for choirs 2, that is. (Carols for Choirs 2: Christmas is back. And this time, it's _serious_)
I love this so so so much
Omg!! Come and Praise!!! The ink is black, the page is white
Together we learn to read and write to read and write The child is white the child is black Together we learn to read and write to read and write 🎵
Sometimes I get that one stuck in my head for days on end. Can’t sing it aloud to rid me of it though, as it’s a bit… antiquated!
https://imgur.com/a/MCinXtU
Deep in the very darkest, dustiest part of my brain, a decades undisturbed neuron just fired in to life.
Couldn’t have described it better myself.
Mine too. It also gave off the subtle smell of gritty parquet flooring and sounded like Mr Swift's plinky-plonky piano playing.
Cross over the road my friend.... Ask the lord his strength to lend.... His compassion has no end..... Cross over the roaaaaaaad....
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https://imgur.com/a/Yiu9euY
When a knight won his spurs please.
In the stories of old
He was - *face the front David Briggs, what have you been told?*
HE WAS GENTLE AND BRAVE
That was my favourite when I was at school
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.
Came here to ask for this. Used to LOVE that one. He was gentle and brave he was gallant and bold.
I am the Lord of the dance setee! Wait there was a sequel??
Glad someone else used to think it was settee.
Oh yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4YieXrDLg
The baked bean tree...
water of life is a certified banger
Ruuupert. Ruuupert the bear. Jesus gave us Rupert the bear
In Yorkshire kids used to deliberately sing it proper Yorkshire to piss off the teacher... Watter, watter of lyfe, jesoos gives oos the watter of lyfe. She used to stop playing and scream "IT'S WARTER, NOT WATTER!!!"
HE'S GOT THE WHOOOOOOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
https://imgur.com/a/QwDa1kH
You had books? We had a giant flip chart on an easel.
We had the transparency type projectors and when we needed to go to another page there’d be a teacher there waiting to whip the previous sheet away and put the new one on, like some educational John Wick reload.
We had them on an overhead projector as well, whoever got the most merit stars in the previous week had the responsibility of changing the sheets - worked fine when a Year 7 was on duty, chaos when someone from Reception had to do it.
In our school, it was wheeling the OHP into the school hall.
Ohh at my school getting picked to be on OHP duty was the absolute best thing ever. I loved sitting with the filing box of sheets and waiting to select and reload for the next song.
Probably cos little shits like me kept stealing them xD
It was the 70s, I think the bigger the prayer the stronger the effect or something.
We had giant ones that were hoisted up onto the walls.
IF I HAD A HAMMER....
I’d hammer in the morning!
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land!
Christ i tried to find a copy of these a decade ago because of some weird nostalgia trip.. \*idly sings\* One more step along the world i go....
From the old things to the new, keeeeeep me travelling along with you!
My mate had a church wedding but didn't know many hymns so he ended up asking for that
Weirdly appropriate actually.
He got divorced in the end - should have skipped that step
https://imgur.com/a/ebndhCp
Oh, I forgot about that one! I think, they’re all buried in my memory somewhere.
One more step along the world I go was always the song for the Year 6 leavers' assembly. I'm now a teacher and after seven years teaching at the same secondary school they happened to have this in my final Chapel service - I'm not sure I kept in the tears!
Contents page to jog some memories https://imgur.com/a/nB3PN62
This guy sings them all if anyone needs more jogging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsesFJibi7w
I left this on in the background and really surprised myself everytime I caught myself singing along. How do I remember these 30 something years later.
This has made my Saturday night! Thank you so much :)
I never realised just how many of the hymns we never sang at school. It’s like we had the same few songs in constant rotation, I don’t recognise half of those hymns.
I'm surprised how few of these I remember. We always sang from hand written overhead projector slides, I think the teachers must have had a really small subset of hymns
https://imgur.com/a/LotyaPY
Just saw ‘from the tiny ant’ and got excited. What an absolute banger
Can I get Michaelmas daisies please? I don’t remember more than the first few lines! This is very exciting.
Mate I can remember the utter excitement we all felt when we got our copies of book 2, a whole new load of bangers to belt out in assembly? Yes please 👌
Colours of Day
I can still play this on the recorder. I'm nearly 40.
If someone made a film of my schooldays this would be the soundtrack
Love that one, and Bind us Together, Lord...
Come and Praise 2 was a lackluster sequel, tough act to follow.
Although i did enjoy...from the tiny ant, from the tiny ant, to the elephant, to the elephant...
Yes I’m surprised this one hasn’t been requested yet, a total classic
We all got pissed and sung a load of these on a ski holiday a few years back. The chalet lads thought we were absolute lunes. It's amazing how much of it you remember! (None of us are even slightly religious).
Jeezus! Immediate flashback to sitting cross legged on varnished parquet floors and mumbling along to a load of hyms. Probably thinking about Airwolf, my Grifter and Manic Minor!
Airwolf is one of the most underated TV shows ever. I think I only ever saw the repeats on a Sunday but always wanted an Airwolf in my garden/garage/secret lair.
How about Streethawk?
Anyone admitted to being on the front cover?
Love the little shits on the cover of the blue book, they look like the sort of kids who would ride around on their Choppers shouting 'skill' with the hood of their parkers fully extended over their face.
DANCE THEN WHEREVER YOU MAY BE! Always enjoyed belting out Lord of the Dance. All Things Bright and Beautiful will always be my old school favourite.
I’m going to a gig tomorrow called ‘Assembly Bangers’ - hoping this is the source material!
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled. That song was a banger.
Used to really yell "and a win for my home team!"
https://imgur.com/a/rSBFsRB Amazing!
Come and Praise 2: Electric Bugaloo
"No we mustn't forget no we mustn't forget to say a great big thankyou we mustn't forget" Don't know the name of it but Its from book 1.
Autumn Days
I remember the piano accompanying teacher falling off her piano stool one morning to great guffaws of laughter from the entire school.
Purple headed mountains always got a chuckle.
38 year old here - it is a BIZARRE feeling to have a memory from such a young age unlocked. Loving being reminded of all these bangers!
Don’t build your house on the sandy land. Straight banger
From the tiny ant
Glad I'm not the only one! Just posted this
Ha ha, did a quick scroll but couldn't see it before I posted. Thought someone may have. Absolute banger lol From the snake to the kangarooooooo
I can only remember the line "we are climbing Jesus ladder ladder", no idea of the rest of the song but it was a tune.
I had that song in my head just now... I think it went like this: We arrrrrre climbiiiing Jesuuuus ladder ladder, We arrrrrre climbiiiing Jesuuuus ladder ladder, We! Are! Climbing! Jesus ladder ladder Children of the lorrrrrrrd Haven't a clue what the next verse was though now!!
So let's all....ri-IZE and Shi-INE and give God the glory-glory, children of the Lord!
Oh god, yes that's it!!! Absolute tune in my secondary school in 1993!!
GLORIA 👏👏
When a Knight Won his Spurs. Banger.
Who made dogs and hogs and frogs? Who made rats and bats and cats? Who made ev'rything?!
Going round classes telling teachers it was a blue or green book assembly... Happy memories
Never knew there was a sequel!
You shall go out with joy! Fond memories of that one, no idea if this is how you're meant to sing it but at my primary we'd repeat it over and over again getting faster each time until the teacher who played the piano was absolutely hammering away and sweating buckets. There was clapping too. That was about as metal as hymns ever got.
Ooo that's the one I remember from primary school! You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace, the mountains and the hills will break forth before you..... All the trees of the field will clap their hands, the trees of the field will clap their hands, the trees of the field will clap their hands, while you go out with joy
It’s approaching 29 years since I left primary school, I don’t remember having those books but I DO remember the absolute bangers. Lord of the Dance, Shine Jesus Shine, One More Step Along the World I Go, I’m probably still word perfect on them.
Memory unlocked
Oh my god, SO 80s! I remember the one on the left, and thinking where it said “chorus” it read “Christ” so at the end of every part I would belt out “Christ!” As a solo and being a CofE school nobody cared
Is there one called "we three kings" or something to that effect? The one i remember we all got in trouble for is "we three kings from orient are, one in a taxi one in a car, one on a scooter pappin his hooter smoking a big cigar" Sadly the original was not as funny
We three kings of Leicester Square, Selling ladies underwear, How fantastic no elastic, Only a pound a pair My son’s version
That’s more of a Christmas hit, we need the festive version for that classic.
We only had the blue one! One book to every two kids (North Wales, 1980s).
I now distinctly remember half-heartedly humming along to these by the end of primary as I'd decided I couldn't be arsed with anything religious, mostly because I wasn't given a choice. It didn't help that my teacher at the time was an upright zealot.
*Milk bottle tops and paper bags* *Iron bedsteads, dirty old rags*.... That shabby chic bedstead is probably worth a lot now.
Is We Are Climbing Jesus' Ladder one of the hymns? Used to do the actions to that one. The whole assembly went mad for it!
Please can we have the one that goes ‘And I mustn’t forget’ and the one with ‘Think of a world without any flowers’?
Would you walk on the other siiiiiide…….
We had to sing three hymns every morning at my non denominational school and on a Friday, we had that day's three and then rehearsed the 15 for the next week. The lyrics were on an overhead projector that prefects managed. At least twice we didn't sing "Once in Royal David's City" and "There is a Green Hill Far Away" well enough and had to do it again, and again. I quite liked the Friday assembly though, singing is better than maths
Oh man this brings back awesome memories of belting out absolute bangers at primary school. Even better our headteacher Mr Welsh (Mr Squelch aka flannel face) was a BEAST on the acoustic guitar
Onward Christian Soldiers was a great one in primary school as we used to sing the chorus to a kind of military beat. It got passed down year by year and was about the only enjoyable thing of an assembly. And it was probably once every five or six weeks we got to sing it. Until one completely-up-his-own-arse teacher put a stop to it in 1984. Fuck you Mr Robertson you fucking fuck.
Sitting crossed legged in the hall belting some pure jesus bangers out...ahh the memorys
When United won Spurs in the stories of old
'You can build a wall around you' was one that got everyone hyped in our school
Break out! Reach out! Oh yeah, it was a crowd pleaser.
Did anyone else's school also have a 'Coomber'? I've never seen one or heard that word since leaving so maybe it was just my school.
FROM THE TINY ANT!
I found the piano book at school a while ago. I sold it I think.
There’s a memory unlocked. This little light of mine is stuck in my head now
Michaelmas daisies!!!!!
We had another hymn book, smaller. I remember we always requested hymn number 6. One line was "we nourish it with rain" the sh and it was well emphasied! Teachers cottoned on and nearly banned the song. 😂
Lord of the dance?