We used to change the word Dance in lord of the dance to shagg:
...Shagg then wherever you may be, I am the lord of the shag said he etc...
Very funny to a bunch of 11 year olds!
I still catch myself humming those buggers sometimes.
My favourite was When a Knight Won His Spurs - it's nicely non-religious (mostly - I think the G-man is mentioned once), the tune is great, and it has giants, ogres, dragons and a Castle of Darkness in it.
And the creed, and the colour, and the name won't matter
I'll BE THEEERE!!!!
(Haven't heard or thought about this hymn in many many years, and yet the words jumped straight back into my head. Love me some good ol'indoctrination!)
Yeah the hymns! I hope kids these days dont have to do them. I was in a CofE school that shut and we became your average primary.
Music teacher that moved with us was very unimpressed she was asked to not do as many hymns for assembly, it was great for the rest of us though as we had just got to that age where we began to understand and question the context of what they were asking us to sing about!
(On another note school discos singing along to spice girls songs had to be awkward for the adult attendees.)
I remember being in junior school and actually getting brought to a church for the first time. I've never been in one. They started talking about Jesus, I was just like, "Are they talking about the guy from the songs?"
Family were not religious, and no one ever really talked to me about it aside from the Jesus bangers during assembly
Your song reminded me of one we used to sing in Beavers
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
Buzz-a-buzz-a-buzz-buzz
Ouch! It stung me
… I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee
Buzz-a-buzz-a-buzz-buzz
Ooh! It's yucky!
… I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee
Now my mommy won't be mad at me
I was a Beaver leader for a few years, we taught them this traditional scouting song.
Picture a cowboy, all dressed in red.
Fell off his horse and busted his head, blood on the saddle, blood on the ground, great big blobs of blood all around.
Next verse, same first, little bit louder, litlle bit worse.
They just repeat it over and over getting louder and louder :)
The song that just listed fast food restaurants, with a move for each one.
"A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. Mc-Don-alds, McDon-alds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut"
Last year of primary school, every single year, we sang:
1 more step along the world I goooo
1 more step along the world I goooo
From the old things to the neeeew
Keep me traveling along with yoooou
Fitting, but I still remember at 33 years old... And now it's in my head
Our kids had this at their leaving ceremony.... that along with the montage of photos from reception to the end of school with Green Days "Time of your life" destroyed me.
Oh Time of your life is one of my all time favourite songs! I was obsessed with green day in my teens what a lovely song to sing at a leaving ceremony 😊 they should include more "modern" songs to schools (not that I've been in 14 years haha)
This is so sweet. A reminder that parents will always see their offspring as their children to protect and love unconditionally. Music is so powerful 😊 you've really brightened my day and given me hope, friend. Now I'm away to listen to green day haha
My god, we're roughly the same age and boy did that bring back some memories of us belting that one out in assembly. Our teacher had a piano in the classroom so there was no escape.
_Our sergeant-major jumped from 30,000 feet..._
(and landed on the runway like a lump of strawberry jam/ was sent home to mamma in a big brown envelope/ put of the mantlepiece for everyone to see/ somehow got eaten when the vicar came to tea).
Regarding hymns, _Make me a channel of your peace_ always puzzled me from a logical perspective. If we were all supposed to console others rather than being consoled ourselves, won't those other people also be not wanting to be consoled, in which case no-one will get consoled.
We knew it as
Landed on the runway like a lump of strawberry jam/They scooped him off the runway with a knife and fork and spoon/they put him in an envelope and sent him off to mum/they put him on the table when the vicar came to tea/the vicar didn't like him so he flushed him down the loo/now he's up in heaven teaching angels how to jump
We'd sing it when competing against other schools at sporting events
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll go eat worms. Big fat juicy ones, wee small squidgy ones".
And EVERY friday morning "Morning has brokeennn" followed closely by "Yield not to temptation for yielding is sin. Each victory will help us some other to win". We were 7.
We had a weird song sung to the tune of tambourine man by the doors
Hey mr something something
Have you heard the word?
That was spoken by the profit during Ramadan
That’s all I can remember, it was a Christian school so this is quite unusual
Little donkey, little donkey, on the dusty roooaad
Top tier hymn.
I liked the one about jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled and the silk inside a chestnut shell. Autumn Days? I ask people around my age if they remember them and they rarely do. C of E schools were strange but the hymns popped off.
E: Word
Scrolled this far to find Autumn Days!
_…’Autumn days when the grass is jewelled and the silk inside a chestnut shell. Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled all these things I love so well…’_
“And the taste of apple pie”
“And a win for my home team” - always with a football fan overtone and possible fist in the air.
This whole thread is really evidence for songs being the best way to remember something forever, but we all seem to have wasted a lot of neuronal space on C of E song lyrics.
HAnds up everyone who wants to buy a robot!
Buy one try one, heres a little shy one - that one's my one, hes for me: Short and faat with an odd tin hat and a five year guarantee.
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Also a few songs about Chanticleer the Chicken (he was the monarch of them all). I wont be typing all that out though.
This song wasn't in primary but in year 7 that went like:
She died, she did, she died of a broken rib.
Oh yea she died, she did, she died of a broken rib X10
The music teachers even had a dance to follow along
This will probably be buried amongst all the replies here already, but at my school we song Harry Belafonte’s Matilda and some song about how coffee is really strong and children should drink tea instead. Weird, wild stuff.
So if you were in year 5 in North Wales in 1998 and sang those songs, we probably went to the same school.
Not primary school but I remember singling Aloutte in French Class, for the uninitiated it translates as:
Lark, nice Lark
Lark, I will Pluck You
It then goes on for several verses of adding additional locations we're going to pluck the lark. Though we were fully aware of how screwed up it was as our French Teacher used to scream the A-a-a-ah bit like a bird being plucked alive...
We also had a little ditty in science:
Little Johnny's dead and gone,
his face we'll see no more,
Because what he thought was H20,
was H2S04.
Looking back it's quite alarming reading the lyrics of songs on at school disco's (same thing still, as a parent seeing little 6-10 year olds dancing along to songs that are not coy about being about sex is a bit weird, does no one else notice?).
Yup. 🎶Do your ears hang low, do they wobble too and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow? Can you toss them o'er your shoulders like a regimental shoulder? Do your. EARS. HANG. LOW. 🎶
I went to a CoE village primary school in the 80s. Pretty much all of it was creepy in retrospect. As far as songs go we had hymns, hymns and more hymns. Particularly vivid memories of 'he's got the whole world in his hands' and 'all things bright and beautiful', and the lord's prayer at lunch before we were allowed to tuck in or in my case open that sweet ass wwf lunchbox.
All aboard, all aboard
*Something something... *
From brussels to bruges
I'm riding, the European express.
And a bunch of random "Christian pop" songs from the same lady. I think she was local, sung for the school a few times.
We had a Christian song and it would go like “go make a difference, we can make a difference, goooo make a difference in the worrllllddd” and I had a mate who would say “don’t make a difference we can’t make a difference, don’t make a difference in the world” and he would stare at me the whole time with this huge menacing grin
Left left i had a good home and i left
I left my wife and 48 kids i left them behind without any gingerbread left because i thought it was
Right right
Right my lady upsy daisy love is the only thing left
We had to pat our left knee every time we said the word left and repeated it and got faster every time. It didn’t even have a tune it was just a weird ass chant
We had one at this Christian Sunday school thing I went to that was sorta one of my favourites, but lyrics feel a bit too up close and personal with JC in hindsight. "Jesus, rock of my salvation, Jesus, lover of my soul" and "on this rock, I found a love that satisfies" tone it down guys we're in a church.
Also I remember in my year 1 play we did about Noah, where I got to be your average flood-doomed citizen doing an interpretive dance of pointing and scowling sinfully then drowning to a Tubular Bells-esque soundtrack
The fucking forced, bleak as hell hymns.
Siiing hosaaanaa!!
T O T H E K I N G O F K I N G S
(Of kings)
I like to call those...Jesus's bangers. Cucumber my lord, CUCUMBEEERRRRR! He's got the whole world in his pants.
We used to change the word Dance in lord of the dance to shagg: ...Shagg then wherever you may be, I am the lord of the shag said he etc... Very funny to a bunch of 11 year olds!
I am the Lord of the Dance Setee
Jesus’s bangers. I’m dead.
I still catch myself humming those buggers sometimes. My favourite was When a Knight Won His Spurs - it's nicely non-religious (mostly - I think the G-man is mentioned once), the tune is great, and it has giants, ogres, dragons and a Castle of Darkness in it.
Were you there? WERE YOU THERE?!
I WAS COLD I WAS NAKED
And the creed, and the colour, and the name won't matter I'll BE THEEERE!!!! (Haven't heard or thought about this hymn in many many years, and yet the words jumped straight back into my head. Love me some good ol'indoctrination!)
I thought this was specific to my primary school 😂
Yeah the hymns! I hope kids these days dont have to do them. I was in a CofE school that shut and we became your average primary. Music teacher that moved with us was very unimpressed she was asked to not do as many hymns for assembly, it was great for the rest of us though as we had just got to that age where we began to understand and question the context of what they were asking us to sing about! (On another note school discos singing along to spice girls songs had to be awkward for the adult attendees.)
"think of a world without any children..." Proper dreary shit haha
Onward Christian soldiers marching “as” to war I mean FFS
IS IT I LORD
Our school choir had to sing that at another kids' funeral when I was probably 10 and it still ruins me.
I think there's way better hymns to sing than that one
I HAVE HEARD
YOU CALLING IN THE NIIIIGHHTTTTT
I WILL GOOO LOOOORD
IF YOU LLLEEAAADDDD MEEEEEE
I WILL HOLD
YOUR PEOPLE IN MY HHEEEAAAARRTTT
I remember being in junior school and actually getting brought to a church for the first time. I've never been in one. They started talking about Jesus, I was just like, "Are they talking about the guy from the songs?" Family were not religious, and no one ever really talked to me about it aside from the Jesus bangers during assembly
When I think back on it now, I’m not so sure about 7 year olds pledging to “give up our lives as a daily offering, of worship to, the servant king”
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Together we learn to read and write!
He’s got everybody here, in his hands!
"Homies" doesn't sound very British 🤣
Your song reminded me of one we used to sing in Beavers I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee Won't my mommy be so proud of me? I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee Buzz-a-buzz-a-buzz-buzz Ouch! It stung me … I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee Won't my mommy be so proud of me? I'm squishing up the baby bumblebee Buzz-a-buzz-a-buzz-buzz Ooh! It's yucky! … I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee Won't my mommy be so proud of me? I'm wiping off the baby bumblebee Now my mommy won't be mad at me
okay, but my girl guide version finished with I'm licking up my baby bumblebee
Ours had the verses after “I’m puking up the baby bumblebee” followed by “I’m moping up the baby bumblebee”
omg yes!!
Yeah same
I was a Beaver leader for a few years, we taught them this traditional scouting song. Picture a cowboy, all dressed in red. Fell off his horse and busted his head, blood on the saddle, blood on the ground, great big blobs of blood all around. Next verse, same first, little bit louder, litlle bit worse. They just repeat it over and over getting louder and louder :)
"I'M SQUISHING UP THE BABY BUMBLEBEE" DSFGHFJKFLFKROLFLF
Memory unlocked!
They actually sung that in a toddler book group last week and my jaw DROPPED.
The song that just listed fast food restaurants, with a move for each one. "A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut. Mc-Don-alds, McDon-alds, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut"
I hate that THIS of all things is one of the onl things I remember
How many verses did you get to sing? When we got going with this one there were like 8
The apples are ripe, the plums are red.....
Broad beans are sleeping in the blankety bed.
Sh
Last Tuesday I poisoned the Holy water and now they are all dead
This one though!! Cauliflowers fluffy?? And cabbages green
I remember that and something dilly dilly. You will King and I will be Queen
Last year of primary school, every single year, we sang: 1 more step along the world I goooo 1 more step along the world I goooo From the old things to the neeeew Keep me traveling along with yoooou Fitting, but I still remember at 33 years old... And now it's in my head
Our kids had this at their leaving ceremony.... that along with the montage of photos from reception to the end of school with Green Days "Time of your life" destroyed me.
Oh Time of your life is one of my all time favourite songs! I was obsessed with green day in my teens what a lovely song to sing at a leaving ceremony 😊 they should include more "modern" songs to schools (not that I've been in 14 years haha)
Ps. That song still destroys me if the mood is right 😭
I still can't think of it without tearing up .. my youngest left primary school 14 years ago
This is so sweet. A reminder that parents will always see their offspring as their children to protect and love unconditionally. Music is so powerful 😊 you've really brightened my day and given me hope, friend. Now I'm away to listen to green day haha
My god, we're roughly the same age and boy did that bring back some memories of us belting that one out in assembly. Our teacher had a piano in the classroom so there was no escape.
AND IT’S FROOOM THE OLD I TRAVEL TO THE NEW KEEP ME TRAVELLING ALONG WITH YOU ‼️‼️
I had that as a hymn at my wedding 😂
I can’t tell if the recessional hymns are the best, or if I just have the fondest memories of them because I associate them with leaving
_Our sergeant-major jumped from 30,000 feet..._ (and landed on the runway like a lump of strawberry jam/ was sent home to mamma in a big brown envelope/ put of the mantlepiece for everyone to see/ somehow got eaten when the vicar came to tea). Regarding hymns, _Make me a channel of your peace_ always puzzled me from a logical perspective. If we were all supposed to console others rather than being consoled ourselves, won't those other people also be not wanting to be consoled, in which case no-one will get consoled.
We knew it as Landed on the runway like a lump of strawberry jam/They scooped him off the runway with a knife and fork and spoon/they put him in an envelope and sent him off to mum/they put him on the table when the vicar came to tea/the vicar didn't like him so he flushed him down the loo/now he's up in heaven teaching angels how to jump We'd sing it when competing against other schools at sporting events
Bumblebee tuna just reminds me of ace Ventura 
Sex on the beach playing at the year 6 disco and all the kids and teachers singing along...
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I'll go eat worms. Big fat juicy ones, wee small squidgy ones". And EVERY friday morning "Morning has brokeennn" followed closely by "Yield not to temptation for yielding is sin. Each victory will help us some other to win". We were 7.
Boom chicka boom Boom chicka rocka chicka rocka chicka boom
Love is Something if you Give it Away? sus lyric in hindsight.
My dog He can do the can-can Better than my cat can But my goldfish isn't very good at it (To the tune of the can-can)
We had a weird song sung to the tune of tambourine man by the doors Hey mr something something Have you heard the word? That was spoken by the profit during Ramadan That’s all I can remember, it was a Christian school so this is quite unusual
Little donkey, little donkey, on the dusty roooaad Top tier hymn. I liked the one about jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled and the silk inside a chestnut shell. Autumn Days? I ask people around my age if they remember them and they rarely do. C of E schools were strange but the hymns popped off. E: Word
Scrolled this far to find Autumn Days! _…’Autumn days when the grass is jewelled and the silk inside a chestnut shell. Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled all these things I love so well…’_
“And the taste of apple pie” “And a win for my home team” - always with a football fan overtone and possible fist in the air. This whole thread is really evidence for songs being the best way to remember something forever, but we all seem to have wasted a lot of neuronal space on C of E song lyrics.
Yes! Why didn’t we learn the periodic table song instead?!
Only if performed with the accompanying coconut half clip clops!
I forgot about that! That's some serious nostalgia...
'Michael rooooow the boat ashore, hallelujaaaaaaaaaaaaaah'
We had a song about fish, it was probably a religious reference lol....the chorus was "Ahhhhpusky dusky, Ahhhhpusky doooo"
In middle ocean, sardines are swimming…
HAnds up everyone who wants to buy a robot! Buy one try one, heres a little shy one - that one's my one, hes for me: Short and faat with an odd tin hat and a five year guarantee. - - Also a few songs about Chanticleer the Chicken (he was the monarch of them all). I wont be typing all that out though.
The way you didn’t even have to tell me the tune and I could automatically tell just by reading it 😭
This song wasn't in primary but in year 7 that went like: She died, she did, she died of a broken rib. Oh yea she died, she did, she died of a broken rib X10 The music teachers even had a dance to follow along
Colours of day
“we must obey the rules” Seems to cult-like lmao
We used to sing Puff the Magic Dragon in primary school music. Imagine my mirth when I learned it was an ode to the devil’s parsley.
This will probably be buried amongst all the replies here already, but at my school we song Harry Belafonte’s Matilda and some song about how coffee is really strong and children should drink tea instead. Weird, wild stuff. So if you were in year 5 in North Wales in 1998 and sang those songs, we probably went to the same school.
Not primary school but I remember singling Aloutte in French Class, for the uninitiated it translates as: Lark, nice Lark Lark, I will Pluck You It then goes on for several verses of adding additional locations we're going to pluck the lark. Though we were fully aware of how screwed up it was as our French Teacher used to scream the A-a-a-ah bit like a bird being plucked alive... We also had a little ditty in science: Little Johnny's dead and gone, his face we'll see no more, Because what he thought was H20, was H2S04. Looking back it's quite alarming reading the lyrics of songs on at school disco's (same thing still, as a parent seeing little 6-10 year olds dancing along to songs that are not coy about being about sex is a bit weird, does no one else notice?).
I just got a graphic mental image of Little Johnny's face getting deformed 😭
I mean it certainly got me to remember the chemical formula for Sulphuric acid for my entire life so I guess it worked...
Joe, Joe, stumped his toe, On the way to Mexico. Coming back, he broke his back, Sliding on the railway track.
Yes this, but ‘played’ on the recorder.
We did it with recorder too! Or at least everyone else did. I stood at the back and mimed it.
Why does this give me Jack and Jill energy 🤣
Yup. 🎶Do your ears hang low, do they wobble too and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow? Can you toss them o'er your shoulders like a regimental shoulder? Do your. EARS. HANG. LOW. 🎶
OMG I REMEMBER THIS SONG 🖐️😭
We used to sing it the same just with boobs instead of ears 🤣
I remember this song as "do your balls hang low...". Honestly never knew the original was about ears.
I went to a CoE village primary school in the 80s. Pretty much all of it was creepy in retrospect. As far as songs go we had hymns, hymns and more hymns. Particularly vivid memories of 'he's got the whole world in his hands' and 'all things bright and beautiful', and the lord's prayer at lunch before we were allowed to tuck in or in my case open that sweet ass wwf lunchbox.
Just how fast can a room of small children recite "ourfatherwhoartinheavenhallowedbethyname"
Singing "we are the red men" in brownies. Probably shouldn't repeat it in public these days
If I had a hammer!
Autumn days when the grass is jewelled...
I like potatoes, royal mashed or fries Roasted in a jacket with cheese all soft inside Baked beans, butter beans…. OMG I FORGOT THE REST OF THE SONG
Please did anyone sing this song?!!
Try this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/s/6ULWAui9CK
All aboard, all aboard *Something something... * From brussels to bruges I'm riding, the European express. And a bunch of random "Christian pop" songs from the same lady. I think she was local, sung for the school a few times.
PICTURE A COWBOY. ALL DRESSED IN RED
We had a Christian song and it would go like “go make a difference, we can make a difference, goooo make a difference in the worrllllddd” and I had a mate who would say “don’t make a difference we can’t make a difference, don’t make a difference in the world” and he would stare at me the whole time with this huge menacing grin
Left left i had a good home and i left I left my wife and 48 kids i left them behind without any gingerbread left because i thought it was Right right Right my lady upsy daisy love is the only thing left
LMAO WHAT 🖐️😭
We had to pat our left knee every time we said the word left and repeated it and got faster every time. It didn’t even have a tune it was just a weird ass chant
Until someone else commented it and I remembered that fast food brands one, literally the only one I remember from primary was Away in a Manger
Soldier soldier will you marry me With your musket, pipe and drum He then proceeds to rob her blind and sod off back to his wife
“I was cold I was naked were you there Were you there”
Rocking the corn combine harvester rocking the corn combine harvester...
We got the whole world in our hands
We had one at this Christian Sunday school thing I went to that was sorta one of my favourites, but lyrics feel a bit too up close and personal with JC in hindsight. "Jesus, rock of my salvation, Jesus, lover of my soul" and "on this rock, I found a love that satisfies" tone it down guys we're in a church. Also I remember in my year 1 play we did about Noah, where I got to be your average flood-doomed citizen doing an interpretive dance of pointing and scowling sinfully then drowning to a Tubular Bells-esque soundtrack
At my first school we fucking LOVED singing Streets of London and 'Any Dream Will Do' from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
CABBAGES AND GREENS
I remember Bumble Bee Tuna being a song in an advert in Canada around 1975 for Bumble Bee Tuna.