Primary School Songs

[secretspy]

Mooooooooorning has broooooooooooooooooooooooooken

Like the first mooooorning, blackbird has spoken like the first word (? I think)

For hymns we had kumbaya, lprd of the dance, whole world, cross over the road, all things bright and beautiful,

General playground songs were ring a ring a roses, hokey cokey, baa baa black sheep , Popeye the sailor man, frere Jacque (my niece learned this one recently, I told her what it translates to in English and she was impressed )

 

[Nitefly]

Dudeeeee I have no idea if you will even get this but i to have been looking for the answer to this for yearrrrsssssssssssss and i mean years. Today i found the answer to it and where these songs came from. some random school musical books. There is loads including several i had forgotten till looking through them all.
https://www.dcmusicals.com/the-emerald-crown I dont know if i can post a link but for the highwayman song and jungle disco google for dcmusicals that is the website and the musical is called the emerald crown

Wow you are awesome!!! Thanks for sharing

I’m pretty sure I can do all the lyrics to 20th century highway man without looking... let’s see...

20th century highway man, takes what he wants and he takes what he can
He’s a jet setting go getting 20th century man
He lives in a city far away; an urban jungle of concrete and clay
He’s a jet setting getting 20th century man

stand - and - deliver....
He’s heading... for the amazon river....
He takes from the forest, he steals from the trees!
He takes what he wants, and he wants what he sees!

Not to bad for... oh, 20 years ago

edit - wow 10 years since I wrote that - what a result!!!!

 

[AndrewNR]

Our school used to love a song that went

If i had a hammer.

Cant remember the name but all the kids loved it

I'd hammer in the morning...

 

[sigma]

Wow you are awesome!!! Thanks for sharing

I’m pretty sure I can do all the lyrics to 20th century highway man without looking... let’s see...

20th century highway man, takes what he wants and he takes what he can
He’s a jet setting go getting 20th century man
He lives in a city far away; an urban jungle of concrete and clay
He’s a jet setting getting 20th century man

stand - and - deliver....
He’s heading... for the amazon river....
He takes from the forest, he steals from the trees!
He takes what he wants, and he wants what he sees!

Not to bad for... oh, 20 years ago

edit - wow 10 years since I wrote that - what a result!!!!

I think what's more impressive is that the person you quoted waited 5 years to post and this is their first!

 

[sigma]

Like the first mooooorning, blackbird has spoken like the first word (? I think)

For hymns we had kumbaya, lprd of the dance, whole world, cross over the road, all things bright and beautiful,

General playground songs were ring a ring a roses, hokey cokey, baa baa black sheep , Popeye the sailor man, frere Jacque (my niece learned this one recently, I told her what it translates to in English and she was impressed )

Head**** of a reply, 10 years since I originally posted that

Wasn't there one about the mines or something?

Cluttering, clattering, coal hole something-ing?

Totally not that but sort of.

 

[mmj_uk]

In my junior school we used to sing a lot of Christian songs even the Pakistani's etc but that was in the days before political correctness sorting everyone into separate categories based on race, religion etc and generally dividing communities. i also remember going to a few Eid parties and nobody really bat an eyelid because Islamic extremists wanting to take over the world wasn't rammed down your throat 24/7 by the media.

 

[uvarvu]

Come and Praise and With Cheerful Voice were the books of choice back in the day for us.

 

[Lopéz]

Lots of these.
Morning has Broken

Autumn Days
Cauliflowers Fluffy
Lily The Pink
Shine Jesus Shine
See him a lying on a bed of straw
London's Burning
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly
Sing Hosanna
Shalom Chaverim (no idea why we sang this)
Calon Lan
Various other Welsh and English hymns

 

[stuman]

Cauliflowers fluffy

Cabbages green

 

[Narj]

"I was cold I was naked, were you there? were you there?"

#metoo

I see lots of others went to a CofE school.

 

[esoteric]

No love for Little Donkey on here

 

[NVP]

That song made me so embarrased in primary one and still cringe thinking about it.

It goes "sing hosanna to the king of kings, sing hosanna to the king" and at the last bit I forgot it stopped and shouted "OF" at the top of my voice.

Wouldn't have been so bad if we were just in class but it was a school and parent assembly and everyone looked at me and laughed

 

[Narj]

No love for Little Donkey on here

That was primary school for me.

 

[ttaskmaster]

It was called " Tommy went to the Moon", it could have been "went", "goes" or "flies" one or the other anyway.

No no, it goes like this:
"Tommy used to work on the docks. Union's been on strike, he's down on his luck, it's tough... so tough".

"How long will it be, before you can see, that what we are doing is wrong.....?"

"How can we dance when our earth is turnin'? How can we sleep while our beds are burnin'?"
That the one?

Three-six-nine, the goose drank wine, The monkey chew tobacco on the street car line, The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little row boat.

"Clap Hands!!"
Tom Waits.

No love for Little Donkey on here

Well, no... That sort of thing is illegal most places, 'cept a couple of the Southern States of America...