primary school assembly songs?

Question

can you remember any - the only one i remember is "the grandfather clock was too large for the shelf so it stood 20 years on the floor" .....blah blah blah......."and the clock stopped, never to go again when the old man died"!

cheers

Answer 1

yep - i remember that song. always hated it - so flippin' morbid !

my music teacher at primary school was a big fan of the beatles, so we learnt practically all of the songs from the Yellow Submarine film ! but we also had to learn the usual relegious ones - Lord of the Dance, To be a Pilgrim, etc, etc.

Answer 2

Assembly Songs For Primary Schools

Answer 3

School Assembly Songs

Answer 4

The clock stood for 90 years, not 20 :-P

Um... there's quite a few good ones out there these days. Our school uses a lot of older pop songs from the sixties and seventies.

From when I was a kid, I remembered one that I loved. Can't remember the title, but the first verse and chorus is:

When I was just a wee little lad
Filled with health and joy
My father came in home one night
And gave to me a toy
A wonder to behold it was
With many colours bright
And the moment I laid eyes on it
It became my heart's delight.

It went "zip" when it moved
And "pop" when it stopped
And "whirr" when it stood still
I never knew just what it was
And I guess I never will.


That and the Austrian that went yodelling in the mountain so high, and met with a (skier, avalanche, grizzly bear, etc) interrupting his cry are the two I remember the most.

Answer 5

I hope you went to a religious school. Otherwise, what the heck were you doing singing hymns in a public school? I was in school a lot longer ago than you were, but we didn't sing religious songs. We did sing some strange ones, though--"Sleep, Kentucky Babe" (we were in NY), "The Happy Wanderer," and, in middle school, a really weird one about JFK's assassination. "A young man rode with his head held high, under the Texas sun, and no one guessed that a man so blessed, would perish by the gun..." Isn't that just awful? Edit: Anigma, you are quite right. Studies show that people remember songs, even themes from commercials and TV shows, for a very long time. I think that's why Schoolhouse Rock was so successful. My son can still "sing" the preamble to the Constitution. It's much harder to memorize that simply as prose instead of a song.

Answer 6

I remember being forced to sing religious songs at primary school. Now I am atheist and I absolutely resent the fact that I was forced to sing about a god that I do not believe in. And my school was a state school! I remember one kid being told off for not looking like he was praying during an assembly once. I am disgusted.

Answer 7

You sang that in assembly??

I remember loads:

When lamps are lighted in the town.
All people that on earth do dwell.
Oh Jesus I have promised to serve you to the end.
Lord of all hopefulness.
Praise my soul the King of Heaven.
When a knight won his spurs in the stories of old.
He who would valient be.
Morning has broken.
Immortal invisible.

I won't go on!

I left school 37 years ago.

Answer 8

We sang Lord of the Dance, I'd Like to Teach the world to Sing, ***-by-yah (lol at spelling!!!) and a song that went "The ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write, read and write"!!!

And also countless hymns like All Things Bright and Beautiful

Answer 9

Water of Life" "Shine Jesus Shine" "Lord of the Dance" "Praise the Lord in the Rhythm of your Music" nursury rhyms and such things like that but i went to a CofE school and we had to sing religious songs but my friends primary schools never sang anything

Answer 10

I actually think its really nice to hear kids singing hymns at school, My kids favourite is called Conkers, and its a great song. Because they go to a church school, ( only because all the other local scghool are full of non speaking english and they are prioritised over) they actually sing religious hymns, not like what we used to sing years ago, but more up beat, and they are rather good......