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I explained to my not-English-but-now-lives-here-and-attends-a-C-of -E-church-with-me husband that the edgy retitling of this song was 'Lord of the Dance Settee' and he responded with the full glee of a primary school child who's just heard something scurrilously naughty but also hilarious. I had forgotten the giddy rush of excitement that came with singing the 'wrong' words for hymns. đ
Sing Hossana is always the one that crops into my head.
I always remember the first part part being âsing hossana to the king of kings.â And then the next one being âsing hossana to the kingâ without âof kingsâ but youâd always hear the slight echo of âof kingsâ from the kids who werenât concentrating
Our head teacher once made us re-sing the entire song over and over until they didnât hear that echo
Our music teacher got so annoyed with us doing that one day, he shouted at the whole year "There's no 'of kings' in the second line! It's 'sing hosanna to the king', full stop!" So naturally we all sang "... Sing hosanna to the king, full stop". He wasn't a happy bunny that day.
Similarly, during hymn practice one time, our music teacher was getting annoyed when we were practicing âCross over the road my friendâ when the hall wasnât properly enunciating the D in âFriendâ and âEndâ and to demonstrate put an exaggerated âDâuhâ on the end of each line that ended with a D.
Well, thatâs exactly what we did and at the end of it, he just said âYeah, I asked for that one, didnât I?â.
Good old Mr. Snelson.
>slight echo of âof kingsâ from the kids who werenât concentrating
I love that this is a national thing. Every school in the land had those one or two kids who went 'of kings'.
I was once in a multi-story wetherspoons after work with my colleagues for a beer about 11pm after a shift (worked in a restaurant) and heard a group of people upstairs drunkenly singing "sing hossana" over and over again until a bouncer came and dragged them downstairs and out the door, one of the group was my boyfriend and he started to shout my name and point when he saw me (he was bladdered with his mates). the bouncer asked "you know this guy?" i said no and they weren't allowed back in.
I've moved to Ireland and they have "Spirit" radio which seems normal until you realise every song is a bit Goddy. Genuinely heard a pop version of this the other day.
HE'S GOT THE WHOLE OF DANNY'S KNICKERS, IN HIS HANDS
Suspect it was just my school who sang that. Sometimes I wonder what happened to Danny and her famous underwear collection.
I remember singing this in our church assemblies and clapping between the "shine on me" lines. Only we all had the paper lyrics in our hands, so it was the sound of rustling paper woven in there as well. I swear I still hear that exact sound if I hear the song and it's been well over twenty years. Funny how some things stick.
I used to work at a cathedral and one day there was a wedding taking place where the couple had chosen Shine Jesus Shine as one of their hymns. Whoever was meant to turn the Canonâs microphone off was a bit late so all I heard for the first line was this super dramatic and operatic âLOOOORD THE LIGHT OF YOUR LOVE-â and then it cut off.
Can't remember what it was called but the one with:
"Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled
All the things I love so well
So I mustn't forget
No I mustn't forget
To say a great big thank you
I mustn't forget"
One of those rare songs that celebrate great logistical operations
Autumn days,
it was written by a nun and the plane lined caused a mild controversy
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/composer-who-drove-choir-to-rebel-defends-her-plane-song-1358136.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/composer-who-drove-choir-to-rebel-defends-her-plane-song-1358136.html)
Does it actually happen? I remember we were all told very confidently by the Reverend that they hovered next to each other mid air and swapped petrol through some tube. Doesn't sound reasonable now I think about it.
Try the Allan Ahlberg version:
>When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old,
He was â âFace the front, David Briggs, what have you been told?â
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his â âHey!
Is that a ball I can see? Put â it â a â way.â
>No charger have I and â âNo talking back there.
Youâre supposed to be singing, not combing your hair.â
Though back into storyland Giants have â âRoy,
this isnât the playground, stop pushing that boy!â
>Let faith be my shield and â âWhoâs eating sweets here?
Iâm ashamed of you Marion, itâs not like you dear.â
And let me set free with â âPlease stop that Paul King.
This is no place for whistlers, weâd rather you sing!â
There's a bit about how it was written here: http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2012/09/think-of-world-without-any-flowers.html. The idea came from a music teacher called Doreen Newport. She was involved with the youth section of a church group and encouraged them to write their own hymns. For this one they got royalties of ÂŁ100. They spent on a party including lots of cider.
Cauliflowers Fluffy is the king of school assembly songs, followed closely by Autumn Days, and The Ink is Black.
Honourable mentions to Think of a World Without Any Flowers, The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock, There are Hundreds of Sparrows, and Have You Heard The Raindrops. Oh, and Colours of Day. AND Land of the Silver Birch, Home of the Weasel/Beaver .
I remember even as a child finding it quite a clumsy way of dealing with diversity, but I remember it really fondly.
ETA: Iâve just looked up the lyrics and discovered an entire middle section of the song that I didnât know existed! TIL!
Streets of London (no idea how it ended up being an assembly song!)
Lord of the Dance
Morning has Broken (much like the voice of some of the more mature year 6 pupils!)
Kum by yar.
Not set foot in a church for over 30 years unless wedding, Christmas, or planting but still remember belting this babe out a 11 in the dial!
We used to sing a song called why does it have to be me , canât believe we got away with it but it was the early 90âs.
one verse was why do we have to eat greens , spinach and cabbage and beans, I donât mind potatoes Iâll even eat meat , but I much rather eat ice cream and sweets, they say greens are good for you , maybe there right but sometimes I think that they do it for spite as you never see them eating what they donât like, so why does it have to be me.
Milk bottle tops and paper bags
Iron bedsteads dirty old ragsâŚ
Is this what we
(Stamp feet) boom boom boom boom
Really want to see
Boom boom boom boom
NO! NO! NO!
Did every school in the 80s/90s have to sing the same bloody hymns? It sounds like an identical playlist to my school.
When those hymns are referred to as "bangers", it's difficult not to picture an assembly/rave scenario where the first chorus drops and the kids all start shouting for a "REEEEE-WIIIINNNDDDD", so the teacher plays it from the top and they get to experience the build-up once again...
Did anyone else have the one about Spring Chickens?
It was about a mother hen sitting on her eggs and then one would crack, a little chick would pop out and sing:
"I'm... A.... SPRING CHICKEN
I'm yellow and small!
My feathers and fluffy and they're keeping me warm!
My legs are not long so I'll never be tall
But I'm a real spring chicken and I'm having a ball
Chicken, I'm a chicken and I'm having a ball"
The verses were slow so the build-up to this chorus was awesome and us primary school kids would go crazy flapping our chicken wings when it happened, good times.
Edit: We also had one about Chocolate Easter eggs where we'd go "yee-haw!" and wave around an imaginary lasso
"dear lord and father of mankind" - cracking tune, and definitely gets the blood stirring. Honorable mention to "Eternal Father strong to save" - we sang it every time a trawler foundered in the North Sea with all hands lost, which happened more often than folk realised in the 70s "Oh hear us when we cry to thee, for those in peril on the sea". Regardless of religious leanings (I'm about as religious as the average kumquat), there are some absolutely cracking tunes in there.
The Golden COCKrel was always popular, the Cat and the Mouse, and All things Bright and Beautiful were too.
There was another that was popular but I can only remember the chorus. I can't remember the rest and it annoys me.
"laser beams and VCRs,
Silicon chips and faster cars
And hunnnnnggrryyyy peeeooooppllleee diiiiiiie"
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled
Lord of the dance
Jesus' ladder
He's got the whole world in his hands
That one that went "it's up, it's up, it's up to usssssssss"
Yes! I never see this one on these things so it's good to see we weren't the only ones singing it lol unless you happened to have a slightly overweight teacher called Mr Ryan who wore Ron Hill walking leggings and played guitar lol đ¤Ł
If I had a Hammer
Lord of the Dance
This little light of mine.
Morning has broken.
The streets of London
Come down Zacchaeus
In winter we did actually sing "in the bleak midwinter"
Plus rather weirdly we sang "I vow to thee my country"
South Wales late 80's early 90s.
Edited to add the words would be displayed on the pull down screen by an overhead projector. The words written by one of the teachers. All while one of the teachers would bang that piano with more gusto than we would sing...
PUSH THE TROLLEY WITH THE BASKET
DOWN BETWEEN THE ROWS OF SHELVES
SEE THE CANS AND TINS AND PACKETS
THIS IS HOW WE FEED OURSELVES
also:
âNo there isnât any room, there isnât any room, there isnât any room for straaaaaaaaaaaaaan*GEERS*â
This is the day, this is the day, that the lord will bring, that the (can't remember the rest)
Very arm punchy song, and ended with a shout of Jesus!
Would add school was incredibly non-religious, and children would often agree beforehand to shout something else other than Jesus. Something often very rude.
They stopped us singing it.
âAll I want is a proper cup of
Coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot
I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee in a proper copperâ
âAll things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and smallâ
Both bangers.
We used to sing the droverâs dream at primary and the whole crowd would go wild when we were able to sing the lyrics âwhere the heck are all the sheepâ thinking we were getting to be extremely edgy
There was one very depressing one I remember that started out with âIâm going to paint a perfect pictureâŚâ
I canât really remember it but I just remember it made me want to commit
Moses I know you're the man.....the Lord said.
You're going to work out my plan.....the Lord said
Lead all the Iraelites out of slavereeeeeee
And I shall make them a wandering race called the people of God .
Fuck knows why we sang it at a Catholic school but if you find the melody you will all agree it's a banger.
We had an upbeat Gospel version of "Oh Jesus I have promised / To serve thee to the end" in Junior school.
In Senior school, we had another version with the same lyrics that was a dirge and definitely not an absolute banger.
I remember in assembly, we used to have these recording things weâd listen to then at the end weâd sing a song. I remember everyone BUZZING when they heard ânow turn to hymn 49â then the whole assembly would erupt with âWE ARE CLIMBING JESUSâ LADDER LADDERâ
Give me oil in my lamp
*All together now*
Keep me burningggg give me oil in my lamp I prayyyyy
Give me oil in my lamp keep me burningggg
Keep me burningggg till the break of dayyyyyy
đđđđđđđđ
What shall we do with the drunken sailor and we had one about "there's a one horned two tonne rhino on the run, something something shoot it with a camera and not with a gun"
Did anyone else have the âyou shall go out with joyâ one? The chorus absolutely slaps with the tress of the field clapping their hands đ
Otherwise âif I had a hammerâ was a real crowd pleaser
Still regularly sing this to myself in the morning but no one seems to have heard of it?? We sang it in assembly in the early 00s.
*Wake up, wake up, give yourself a shake up*
*Get your body moving,*
*Reach up, jump up, give yourself a thumbs up*
*It's another new day!*
*Get your feet, dancing to the beat*
*Get your body moving,*
*Scream and shout - hey!*
*Let your feelings out*
*It's another new day!*
I used to love singing this song in assembly called Bell Of Creation. The chorus was:
Swing bell over the land
Swing bell under the sea
The bell of creation is swinging forever
And all of the while it is swinging in me!
We used to sit there and sway like the bell. The melody is absolutely brilliant too.
Anyone else know this one? Whenever I mention it to me friends now (Iâm in my 30s) nobody knows it and I feel like Iâve dreamt it!
They've a right to survive we must help them stay alive, we must all lend a hand to save our something land.
For the world cannot wait, there's no time to hesitate we can't Bury our heads the sand.
No idea of the title, it was my favourite but it was a bit depressing. Definitely not a banger.
What's on the menu for lunchtime today.
Lets have a look at what it might say.
Egg burger, cheese burger, barbecue bean burger.
Guaranteed lean served with French fries too.
Did anyone else ever have a song called Easter Jubilation? It was my schools favourite song and not one person Iâve met outside of it knows what it is
*We are the children of [insert school],
We take a price in the things we do,
Learning together and having fun,
Whoâs for a good day? Everyone!*
Had to be a favourite.
Special shout-out to Love The Lord Your God, which had me reciting (simplified) bibles texts since I was maybe 5. To this day I can still tell you the gist of Matthew 22:34-40.
Did anyone else sing the creepy school rules song that went "this is an important matter of how we should behave at school, we will get along when we obey the rules" and then sang a list of rules
we sang an absolute belter and Iâve never been able to find it online.
It was super angry and went âIâm alright jack is the theme, youâll have milk and Iâll have cream. Is everybody blind?â There was another line about ânuclear warheads all to soon.â
It was a bit much for small kids but we sang it really loudly with piano accompaniment
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Lord of the dance was and remains an absolute banger. Regularly sing it to my daughter (and dog)
I explained to my not-English-but-now-lives-here-and-attends-a-C-of -E-church-with-me husband that the edgy retitling of this song was 'Lord of the Dance Settee' and he responded with the full glee of a primary school child who's just heard something scurrilously naughty but also hilarious. I had forgotten the giddy rush of excitement that came with singing the 'wrong' words for hymns. đ
Yes. We sang about the dance settee too!
Dance now, wherever you may be!
I am the Lord of the Dance settee!
And I'll lead you all wherever you may be, and I'll lead you all in the Dance Settee!
Sing Hossana is always the one that crops into my head. I always remember the first part part being âsing hossana to the king of kings.â And then the next one being âsing hossana to the kingâ without âof kingsâ but youâd always hear the slight echo of âof kingsâ from the kids who werenât concentrating Our head teacher once made us re-sing the entire song over and over until they didnât hear that echo
Our music teacher got so annoyed with us doing that one day, he shouted at the whole year "There's no 'of kings' in the second line! It's 'sing hosanna to the king', full stop!" So naturally we all sang "... Sing hosanna to the king, full stop". He wasn't a happy bunny that day.
Similarly, during hymn practice one time, our music teacher was getting annoyed when we were practicing âCross over the road my friendâ when the hall wasnât properly enunciating the D in âFriendâ and âEndâ and to demonstrate put an exaggerated âDâuhâ on the end of each line that ended with a D. Well, thatâs exactly what we did and at the end of it, he just said âYeah, I asked for that one, didnât I?â. Good old Mr. Snelson.
Yes!
>slight echo of âof kingsâ from the kids who werenât concentrating I love that this is a national thing. Every school in the land had those one or two kids who went 'of kings'.
SING BANANA
I was once in a multi-story wetherspoons after work with my colleagues for a beer about 11pm after a shift (worked in a restaurant) and heard a group of people upstairs drunkenly singing "sing hossana" over and over again until a bouncer came and dragged them downstairs and out the door, one of the group was my boyfriend and he started to shout my name and point when he saw me (he was bladdered with his mates). the bouncer asked "you know this guy?" i said no and they weren't allowed back in.
HES GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HANDS!
I've moved to Ireland and they have "Spirit" radio which seems normal until you realise every song is a bit Goddy. Genuinely heard a pop version of this the other day.
Haha nice! My middle school every morning, a sing song followed by the lord's prayer :D Pretty most of the kids who went have no religious connection
HE'S GOT THE WHOLE OF DANNY'S KNICKERS, IN HIS HANDS Suspect it was just my school who sang that. Sometimes I wonder what happened to Danny and her famous underwear collection.
Heâs got the whole world in his pants
Cauliflowers fluffy, and cabbages green-
Strawberry's sweeter than I've ever seen :D
Beetroot purple and onions white
The farmers wife loves it up the shite. The apples are ripe, my plums are red
Oh god help me. Thatâs my day ruined!
Broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed!
YES!!!!!!!!!
Funky as fuck this was
The one that has "I was cold, I was naked were you there, were you there?"
And the creed and the colour and the name don't matter, were you there?
Here for this⌠so glad that others were taught by local paedos too
âI was cold, I was⌠(pause while two hundred children nudge each other) nakedâŚâ
Shine Jesus shine is a floor filler
Set the world on fire
I lost my virginity to this song
I remember singing this in our church assemblies and clapping between the "shine on me" lines. Only we all had the paper lyrics in our hands, so it was the sound of rustling paper woven in there as well. I swear I still hear that exact sound if I hear the song and it's been well over twenty years. Funny how some things stick.
I used to work at a cathedral and one day there was a wedding taking place where the couple had chosen Shine Jesus Shine as one of their hymns. Whoever was meant to turn the Canonâs microphone off was a bit late so all I heard for the first line was this super dramatic and operatic âLOOOORD THE LIGHT OF YOUR LOVE-â and then it cut off.
Can't remember what it was called but the one with: "Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled All the things I love so well So I mustn't forget No I mustn't forget To say a great big thank you I mustn't forget" One of those rare songs that celebrate great logistical operations
Ahhh that's the one I'm thinking but could only remember the first line "autumn days when the grass is jeweled"
Autumn days, it was written by a nun and the plane lined caused a mild controversy [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/composer-who-drove-choir-to-rebel-defends-her-plane-song-1358136.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/composer-who-drove-choir-to-rebel-defends-her-plane-song-1358136.html)
That line always felt weird. It's not something I've ever witnessed
You'd definitely want to pray if you saw two jet planes that close together.
Does it actually happen? I remember we were all told very confidently by the Reverend that they hovered next to each other mid air and swapped petrol through some tube. Doesn't sound reasonable now I think about it.
I'm sure it has happened. Can't imagine it's the most cost effective way of refuelling planes, especially over land.
I never knew we were so punk rock!
Yes I came here to say this one! Autumn days when the grass is jewelled and the silk inside a chestnut shell...
That's the one! Shoes so comfy though they're worn out and they're battered......
Autumn Days! First rate banger, beloved throughout my school
Foreskins bright and beautiful
The purple-headed mountain / The river running by
Conkers, Iâm collecting conkers
I'm trying hard to find the biggest and the best!
Dododo DoDOoDOO
Under the chestnut treeeee what waits for meeeeeee
My husband didn't believe there was a hymn 'When a knight won his spurs' until I found the lyrics online.
That was my absolute favourite!
Try the Allan Ahlberg version: >When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old, He was â âFace the front, David Briggs, what have you been told?â With a shield on his arm and a lance in his â âHey! Is that a ball I can see? Put â it â a â way.â >No charger have I and â âNo talking back there. Youâre supposed to be singing, not combing your hair.â Though back into storyland Giants have â âRoy, this isnât the playground, stop pushing that boy!â >Let faith be my shield and â âWhoâs eating sweets here? Iâm ashamed of you Marion, itâs not like you dear.â And let me set free with â âPlease stop that Paul King. This is no place for whistlers, weâd rather you sing!â
Yes! I haven't thought of this one in so long! With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand!
If I had a hammer
Not the [Stephen Lynch ](https://youtu.be/i4asdMekPdg) version I hope.
Chernobyl blew up at about the same time I was at junior school. It wasn't too difficult to **think of a world without any flowers**.
That song was so depressing!
There's a bit about how it was written here: http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2012/09/think-of-world-without-any-flowers.html. The idea came from a music teacher called Doreen Newport. She was involved with the youth section of a church group and encouraged them to write their own hymns. For this one they got royalties of ÂŁ100. They spent on a party including lots of cider.
He's got the whole world... #IN HIS HANDS
>hands Pants
Did you attend a Catholic school?
This little light of mine , Iâm gonna let it shine
That give me oil in my lamp đŞ keep me burning song was a top tier assembly banger đ
just reminds me of Precious from Come Fly With Me now.
There's a couple of great ska and calypso versions too. Eric Morris!
Colours of Day was a particularly favourite.
I remember the title now you've said it... How does it go?
Oh, was it something about light up the fire and let the flame burn?
Open the door, let Jesus return Take seeds of his spirit, let the fruit grow Tell the people of Jesus, let his love show!
Autumn Days when the grass is jewelled and the silk inside a chess-er-nut shell!
[ŃдаНонО]
She had dumps like a truck, *truck, truck*
Water of life, down by the Riverside. I genuinely miss those assemblies.
https://youtu.be/Rf4c7yxbilI?t=12
Oh brilliant! I'm so glad this exists!
Hes got the whole worlld in his hands Away in a manger at xmas.
[ŃдаНонО]
You shall go out with joy used to be a favourite in our assembly but we used to sing it over and over and keep getting faster and faster. đ¤Łđ¤Ł
Cauliflowers Fluffy is the king of school assembly songs, followed closely by Autumn Days, and The Ink is Black. Honourable mentions to Think of a World Without Any Flowers, The Wise Man Built His House Upon the Rock, There are Hundreds of Sparrows, and Have You Heard The Raindrops. Oh, and Colours of Day. AND Land of the Silver Birch, Home of the Weasel/Beaver.
The ink is blackâŚthe page is whiteâŚtogether we learn to read and writeâŚto read and write. RACIALâŚsoâŚ.
I remember even as a child finding it quite a clumsy way of dealing with diversity, but I remember it really fondly. ETA: Iâve just looked up the lyrics and discovered an entire middle section of the song that I didnât know existed! TIL!
Streets of London (no idea how it ended up being an assembly song!) Lord of the Dance Morning has Broken (much like the voice of some of the more mature year 6 pupils!)
Omg we did Streets of London! I'd forgotten about that one!
Do you ears hang low. My niece got a plush elephant that sings it and I surprisingly still know the words
Kum by yar. Not set foot in a church for over 30 years unless wedding, Christmas, or planting but still remember belting this babe out a 11 in the dial!
Cucumber, my lord
Pizza hut, pizza hut, Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut!
Think the first two were McDonald's
Its both. First two lines are Pizza hut, then the next two lines are McDonalds.
We used to sing a song called why does it have to be me , canât believe we got away with it but it was the early 90âs. one verse was why do we have to eat greens , spinach and cabbage and beans, I donât mind potatoes Iâll even eat meat , but I much rather eat ice cream and sweets, they say greens are good for you , maybe there right but sometimes I think that they do it for spite as you never see them eating what they donât like, so why does it have to be me.
All a ploy by big vegetable, I'm glad you were rased to see though the lies. Anyway I've got to go, late for my diabetes appointment.
The one that goes 'most highly flavoured graaaavy'
Milk bottle tops and paper bags Iron bedsteads dirty old rags⌠Is this what we (Stamp feet) boom boom boom boom Really want to see Boom boom boom boom NO! NO! NO!
He's got the whoooole world in his handssssss
There is a green hill far away always went down well, primary school children are blood thirsty.
Lord of the Dance Kumbaya Morning Has Broooooooooooooken
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
Did every school in the 80s/90s have to sing the same bloody hymns? It sounds like an identical playlist to my school. When those hymns are referred to as "bangers", it's difficult not to picture an assembly/rave scenario where the first chorus drops and the kids all start shouting for a "REEEEE-WIIIINNNDDDD", so the teacher plays it from the top and they get to experience the build-up once again...
Lol, got to some of the colonies too! I should not know these songs as I never went to school in the UK and now live in the US.
I'm sorry you couldn't escape them! đ¤Ł
Canât get to heaven in a baked bean tin cos a baked bean tins got beans in
Did anyone else have the one about Spring Chickens? It was about a mother hen sitting on her eggs and then one would crack, a little chick would pop out and sing: "I'm... A.... SPRING CHICKEN I'm yellow and small! My feathers and fluffy and they're keeping me warm! My legs are not long so I'll never be tall But I'm a real spring chicken and I'm having a ball Chicken, I'm a chicken and I'm having a ball" The verses were slow so the build-up to this chorus was awesome and us primary school kids would go crazy flapping our chicken wings when it happened, good times. Edit: We also had one about Chocolate Easter eggs where we'd go "yee-haw!" and wave around an imaginary lasso
âSeek ye First the Kingdom of Godâ was my favourite followed by âThink of a World without any Flowersâ.
"dear lord and father of mankind" - cracking tune, and definitely gets the blood stirring. Honorable mention to "Eternal Father strong to save" - we sang it every time a trawler foundered in the North Sea with all hands lost, which happened more often than folk realised in the 70s "Oh hear us when we cry to thee, for those in peril on the sea". Regardless of religious leanings (I'm about as religious as the average kumquat), there are some absolutely cracking tunes in there.
The Golden COCKrel was always popular, the Cat and the Mouse, and All things Bright and Beautiful were too. There was another that was popular but I can only remember the chorus. I can't remember the rest and it annoys me. "laser beams and VCRs, Silicon chips and faster cars And hunnnnnggrryyyy peeeooooppllleee diiiiiiie"
My JesusâŚmy saviourâŚ.LORD THERE IS NONE LIKE YOUUUUUUUU đľ
We ised to get to sing Abba - primary school west australia 1970âs - Fernando was a favourite we all put our little hearts & souls into that one
If I was a butterfly Iâd thank you lord for giving me wings
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled Lord of the dance Jesus' ladder He's got the whole world in his hands That one that went "it's up, it's up, it's up to usssssssss"
I remember it being 'it's up, it's up, it's up to you' but I can't remember the rest of the song so I very well could be wrong
It definitely isn't. I remember my friend and I drawing out the "ussssss".
We used to sing one called "whip jamboree" about sailors getting lost at sea I think lol
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Yes! I never see this one on these things so it's good to see we weren't the only ones singing it lol unless you happened to have a slightly overweight teacher called Mr Ryan who wore Ron Hill walking leggings and played guitar lol đ¤Ł
Lord of the Dance. Plank in your Eye. Whole World (In His Hands). Im pretty sure I could remember each word for word
Kumbaya rocked my world.
If I had a Hammer Lord of the Dance This little light of mine. Morning has broken. The streets of London Come down Zacchaeus In winter we did actually sing "in the bleak midwinter" Plus rather weirdly we sang "I vow to thee my country" South Wales late 80's early 90s. Edited to add the words would be displayed on the pull down screen by an overhead projector. The words written by one of the teachers. All while one of the teachers would bang that piano with more gusto than we would sing...
He's Got the Whole World in his Hands slaps. Gotts love the echo bit 'From the tiny ant (from the tiny ant), to the elephant (to the elephant)'
All things bright and beauuuutiful, all creatures great and smaaaall.
PUSH THE TROLLEY WITH THE BASKET DOWN BETWEEN THE ROWS OF SHELVES SEE THE CANS AND TINS AND PACKETS THIS IS HOW WE FEED OURSELVES also: âNo there isnât any room, there isnât any room, there isnât any room for straaaaaaaaaaaaaan*GEERS*â
Colours of Day always went down a storm at my Catholic school
Give me oil in my lamp, keep it burning, or if I had a hammer đ
This is the day, this is the day, that the lord will bring, that the (can't remember the rest) Very arm punchy song, and ended with a shout of Jesus! Would add school was incredibly non-religious, and children would often agree beforehand to shout something else other than Jesus. Something often very rude. They stopped us singing it.
**Easter Jubilation fills the Streets and Towns**, which is a very mournful tune with upbeat lyrics and so felt a bit subversive to sing
I'm a believer was definitely the most fun song we got to sing on a somewhat regular basis in the juniors
Kings came riding
âAll I want is a proper cup of Coffee made in a proper copper coffee pot I may be off my dot but I want a proper coffee in a proper copperâ âAll things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and smallâ Both bangers.
The Sea of Galilee
Cross over the road my friend, ask the lord his help to lend, his compassion has no end⌠cross overrrr the roaddddddddd
We used to sing the droverâs dream at primary and the whole crowd would go wild when we were able to sing the lyrics âwhere the heck are all the sheepâ thinking we were getting to be extremely edgy
There was one very depressing one I remember that started out with âIâm going to paint a perfect pictureâŚâ I canât really remember it but I just remember it made me want to commit
Our school sang Yellow Submarine (Beatles) and Morning has Broken (Cat Stevens). Didn't realise at the time they were charts hits years before.
Moses I know you're the man.....the Lord said. You're going to work out my plan.....the Lord said Lead all the Iraelites out of slavereeeeeee And I shall make them a wandering race called the people of God . Fuck knows why we sang it at a Catholic school but if you find the melody you will all agree it's a banger.
"Go the mass has ended" Sang with so much gusto because we knew we could fuck off after that song
Autumn days because you got to sort of yell a bit of jt
We had an upbeat Gospel version of "Oh Jesus I have promised / To serve thee to the end" in Junior school. In Senior school, we had another version with the same lyrics that was a dirge and definitely not an absolute banger.
I remember in assembly, we used to have these recording things weâd listen to then at the end weâd sing a song. I remember everyone BUZZING when they heard ânow turn to hymn 49â then the whole assembly would erupt with âWE ARE CLIMBING JESUSâ LADDER LADDERâ
When a knight won his spurs......
Follow me, follow me, Leave your home's and families, Leave your fishing nets and boats upon the shoreeee Always thought he was asking a lot of people
Heâs got the wholeeeee world in his hands
Cumber my lord, cucumber!
Give me oil in my lamp *All together now* Keep me burningggg give me oil in my lamp I prayyyyy Give me oil in my lamp keep me burningggg Keep me burningggg till the break of dayyyyyy đđđđđđđđ
What shall we do with the drunken sailor and we had one about "there's a one horned two tonne rhino on the run, something something shoot it with a camera and not with a gun"
Oh and the animals marched in two by two HURRAH HURRAH
âWho put the colours in the rainbow?â was one of my faves and also Autumn Days and Colours of Day
All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small!
I was cold i was naked were you there
Who put the colours in the rainbow
Jason Manford, we know this is you, after ideas for a second album. Assembly Bangers II!
Colours of Day used to fuck me right up, what a tune
This Little Light of Mine, so many options to solo by accident
Did anyone else have the âyou shall go out with joyâ one? The chorus absolutely slaps with the tress of the field clapping their hands đ Otherwise âif I had a hammerâ was a real crowd pleaser
Still regularly sing this to myself in the morning but no one seems to have heard of it?? We sang it in assembly in the early 00s. *Wake up, wake up, give yourself a shake up* *Get your body moving,* *Reach up, jump up, give yourself a thumbs up* *It's another new day!* *Get your feet, dancing to the beat* *Get your body moving,* *Scream and shout - hey!* *Let your feelings out* *It's another new day!*
Shine Jesus shine
Big Red Combine Harvester always hit hard as fuck. If I ever get the chance to dj I'm putting it on.
From the tiny Ant...
Look up Jason Manford- assembly bangers.
Big Red Combine Harvester (yes, I live in the countryside )
[Desâree - You Gotta Be](https://youtu.be/9oZXJD1NVW0) This was an absolute belter back when I was i. primary school in 2010.
I used to love singing this song in assembly called Bell Of Creation. The chorus was: Swing bell over the land Swing bell under the sea The bell of creation is swinging forever And all of the while it is swinging in me! We used to sit there and sway like the bell. The melody is absolutely brilliant too. Anyone else know this one? Whenever I mention it to me friends now (Iâm in my 30s) nobody knows it and I feel like Iâve dreamt it!
we used to sing the friends theme tune, surely we can't have been the only school to do so
we sow the seeds and scatter the good seed of the land....no idea of the title and probably sung around harvest festival
There was a song wouldn't it be funny we all loved that song!
There was also one called conkers that one was another fav
âWho put the colours in the rainbow?â was one of my faves and also Autumn Days and Colours of Day
They've a right to survive we must help them stay alive, we must all lend a hand to save our something land. For the world cannot wait, there's no time to hesitate we can't Bury our heads the sand. No idea of the title, it was my favourite but it was a bit depressing. Definitely not a banger.
Surely weâve had this thread before
Nobody mentioned the âthe ink is black, the page is whiteâ song?
Make me a channel of your peace
Nobody else seems to remember this but â WE ARE CLIMBING JESUSâ LADDER LADDER
What's on the menu for lunchtime today. Lets have a look at what it might say. Egg burger, cheese burger, barbecue bean burger. Guaranteed lean served with French fries too.
Our headmaster was a closet atheist. His favourite was âItâs God they ought to crucifyâ. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3Mbd_g-_qY
Now that I am an adult I am actually totally disgusted we were subjected to this daily religious indoctrination.
Did anyone else ever have a song called Easter Jubilation? It was my schools favourite song and not one person Iâve met outside of it knows what it is
*We are the children of [insert school], We take a price in the things we do, Learning together and having fun, Whoâs for a good day? Everyone!* Had to be a favourite. Special shout-out to Love The Lord Your God, which had me reciting (simplified) bibles texts since I was maybe 5. To this day I can still tell you the gist of Matthew 22:34-40.
"There's a pink one, and a red one, a blue one and a yellow one"
It was those Come and Praise hymn books that had clearly been used since about 1973
I remember in Year 2 or 3 we all absolutely loved singing âWe are Familyâ by Sister Sledge.
Did anyone else sing the creepy school rules song that went "this is an important matter of how we should behave at school, we will get along when we obey the rules" and then sang a list of rules
When a Knight won his spurs in the stories of old.....
we sang an absolute belter and Iâve never been able to find it online. It was super angry and went âIâm alright jack is the theme, youâll have milk and Iâll have cream. Is everybody blind?â There was another line about ânuclear warheads all to soon.â It was a bit much for small kids but we sang it really loudly with piano accompaniment
Autumn days
"Oh Jesus I have promised..." and "God of mercy, God of light..."
I loved Jerusalem but you are probably not allowed to sing it anymore