In junior school in the '70's we had an absolutely bonkers headmaster who would make up his own words to go with the traditional tunes. For example, 'Sing Hosanna' went:
'Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Give me umption in my gumption all day
Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Let me function throughout the school day'
There was also something like 'And the devil said "Keep shovelling the coalium, ee-olium, ee-olium"!!!
One term he didn't term up, and we later found up he'd bankrupted the school buying video recorders for each classroom (they were massively expensive back then) and been sacked....
There's so many stories about that guy, like the kangaroo court on stage in front of the whole school for these two boys who blocked the toilets, but that's a different story entirely.....
"Autumn Leaves"
And I remember one that had the line in the chorus "Sing hosanna" in the chorus. i sang "Sing Susannah for two years at primary school!!! Deaf old bag that I am!
Does anyone remember the one about the man who built his house on the hill and the other on the sand and then the floods came and the man whose house was on the sand was washed away? It was something like that and I can barely remember it.
Shalom, Shalom
Kum-ba-yah (often the lads would sing cucumber lol)
You shall go out with joy...
Morning has broken
Autumn Days
The slate is black, the chalk is white
There were so many (I was one of the OHP operators in assembly) and Mr Burrows our headteacher at the time would keep rewinding the tapes over and over again if we got it wrong.
"First word, you missed the first word"
and often hed ask someone to "Be thinking" of a song. I was asked twice
I do remember some sort of like pipe song that we had to clap to instead of sing as there were no words. If we miss timed that, we were for it.
I'm sure someone's already said this, but farked if I'm scanning 9 pages :P
cauliflowers fluffy, and cabages green
strawberries sweeter than any ive seen!
er...line?
i remember that, the last line was 'broadbeans sleeping in a blankety bed'
we used to sing michael finnigan too at school in assembly
the once was a man call michael finnigan
he grew whiskers on his chin-igan
the wind came out and blew them in again
poor old michael finnigan begin again:D
I also remember a song which thinking back is very un-PC accusing the French police of cowardice.
Something along the lines of…..
“when we see a helpless woman
Or little boys that do no harm
We run them in, we run them in
To show them were the brave gendarmes”
Anyone else remember this? Late 70’s / early 80’s.
I thought I was the only person in the world who remembered this!
'We're public guardians bold yet wary, and of ourselves we take good care. Of our precious lives we're scary(? or something...), when danger looms we're never there.'
I remember singing this to my dad who found it hilarious.
A lot of these I remember from Sunday School rather than school, so here's a couple more people may have sung:
Joy is the flag flying high from the castle of my heart,
from the castle of my heart,
from the castle of my heart.
Joy is the flag flying high from the castle of my heart,
for the king is in residence there.
Let it fly! in the sky! Let the whole world know
Let the whole world know
Let the whole world know
Let it fly! in the sky! Let the whole world know
for the king is in residence there.
and
Join the gospel express,
come along and say yes,
It's leaving for glory soon.
La la la, dum de da,
La la la, dum de da,
It's leaving for glory soon.
Peep! Peep! Peep!
Goes the whistle,
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff!
Goes the train
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Goes the engine.
For we're off on the glory train.
Can anyone remember: There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions?
There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions,
They're two a penny, far too many there must be.
There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions,
For God made every one and God made me.
I remember we used to sing 'We Will Go Out With Joy' or something like that
You shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace,
and the mountains and the hills will break forth before you,
and there'll be shouts of joy,
and all the trees of the field,
will clap, will clap their hands!
Hymn lyrics are frickin weird when you think about them!
I thought it was 'I am the Lord of the Dance Settee' for a number of years
I'm so glad to find out I wasn't the only one!
Most of the songs we had to sing had been written up on ginormous sheets of paper by hand, in black marker, by the school secretary - who was also the requisite piano player. But for some reason this one wasn't, it was one of the ones that everyone just seemed to be expected to "know" the words to, so I never actually saw the lyrics written down. In fact I think I may only have realised the actual lyric after leaving school altogether
Does anyone out there remember a quite mournful, sombre song about the Autumn. The only actual line I remember is the last one - "Autumn time is here", but throughout the song it goes on about seeing leaves turning to brown, the nights drawing in etc. I can remember the tune vividly and thinking back it sends shivers down my spine, because it seemed really quite a sad and depressing piece to hear echoing around a school hall. It's definitely not the "Autumn Days" song that loads of other posters have mentioned, because that seems to be an uplifting piece. I'm dying to know the name and find the lyrics somewhere. I went to Primary between 1982 - 1990, I wonder if it's still used in assemblies now.
Shalom, Shalom
Kum-ba-yah (often the lads would sing cucumber lol)
You shall go out with joy...
Morning has broken
Autumn Days
The slate is black, the chalk is white
There were so many (I was one of the OHP operators in assembly) and Mr Burrows our headteacher at the time would keep rewinding the tapes over and over again if we got it wrong.
"First word, you missed the first word"
and often hed ask someone to "Be thinking" of a song. I was asked twice
I do remember some sort of like pipe song that we had to clap to instead of sing as there were no words. If we miss timed that, we were for it.
We used to sing that in Primary school when ever someone left. We would all be sitting on the floor (except p7 who sat on benches down the sides) and we'd have to split in the middle for them to walk out lol!
Princess Di's favourite, I vow to thee my country,
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love;
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays 'pon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.
Oh they built the ship titanic, To sail the ocean blue
And they thought they had a ship, That the water would never go through
But the lords almighty hand, Knew that ship would never land
It was sad when that great ship went down.
Chorus:
It was sad, mighty sad, it was sad, mighty sad
It was sad when that great ship went down
Husbands and wives little children lost their lives
It was sad when that great ship went down.
Does anyone remember that song? It was my favourite.
and I also liked:
Casey Jones, Steamin' and a rollin'
Casey Jones, you never have to guess,
When you hear the tootin' of the whistle
It's Casey at the throttle of the cannonball Express.
We had "cauliflowers fluffy and cabbages green too" and "bread and fishes"
Another few I've just remember-not so much hymns
Mick McGillgan's Ball
"Michael McGilligan one fine day got a lot of money from the USA, all from the death of his Uncle Joe, he got a million & half or so...."
All God's Creatures Have A Place In The Choir (somebody has to remember this one!!)
"All God's creatures have a place in the choir, some sing low, some sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire. Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they got now!"
I really enjoyed reading your list...it brought back lots of happy memories! I could very easily get obsessed with this too! This one rang bells with me:
or one that goe:
"All over the world.
Everywhere.
Where the [something]
And where the [something else].
And the green, green giant, goes to [dah]
And [dah dah something, something else]
And slowly, slowly, slowly
Somebody's house is made!" (what an odd song!)
Was it called "Everybody's building?" Something like "Everybody's building, everybody's building day by day...." Ahhh, I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered this song!
Don't know if this has already been mentioned (I haven't read the whole thread yet....I got so excited when I saw the above lyrics I just had to respond quick!)....but does anyone remember a lovely folky song called Judas And Mary? "Said Judas to Mary, now what will you do...."
OK, now I'm off to read the whole thread and wallow in nostalgia!
I've loads of memories of sitting on the polished woodblock floor (that hadn't been swept!) and the wafts of school dinner smells emerging from behind the wooden roller shutters.
We often entered assembly accompanied by Chai Mai playing on a 33rpm with a square label, which looked odd revolving on the turntable. The cassette player was a standard issue educational supplier item consisting of one 12" bass driver with tape player on top, full logic control (designed for stop/start applications), tape counter and 5-DIN mic input. They never cleaned the heads though! This was next to the telly on casters with the front flaps (we all had them in the 80's!).
In about 1990 the record player fried and my school probably spent half its annual budget on an Aiwa music centre complete with CD, turntable, double cassette and equaliser. It was about the size of a pay and display meter. I was entrusted to play the CD "Lloyd Webber play Lloyd Webber", the first song being Variations. I had to fade it down when given the nod!
Tuesday mornings were special for us. We had requests from 9 till 10! I think all the other teachers just smoked in the staff room and drank coffee during this time.
I remember most of the above hymms, we had Come and Praise from the word go (c.1985). When the school could afford it, some new copies were circulated in amongst the dog-eared copies. When Come and Praise 2 emerged we had sheets that were photostats with purple ink, latterly photocopied as the school could initially only afford a limited quantity. (Who remembers having to use both sides of an A4 sheet and the scrap paper drawer?) Of course, we had the OHP and the acetates in later years (c. 1991).
We also had a pink and green hymm book alongside Come and Praise which I've never been able to identify.
Some lyrics I remember are:
"Come down Zachius, down from the tree
Come down Zachius, give the Lord his tea."
But nobody's mentioned this yet:
CHORUS: "I will bring to you,
The best gifts I can offer,
I will sing to you,
The best things in my mind.
I’ll bring you ?? and bits of string,
I’ll bring you almost anything?
The summer evenings playing down our road
I will bring to you, the best things I can offer
I will bring to you, the best things in my mind"
I know, it's very vague but I'm sure it's in Come and Praise.
There was another one we sang with particular empashis on a certain line:
"The Earth is yours oh God,
You nouriSH IT with rain"
We had an all-inclusive happy clappy head teacher in later years who introduced us to a Jewish hymm, that went along the lines of:
"Shalom Shalom,
May peace be with you
Throughout your day
In all that you do, may peace be with you,
Shalom, Shalom"
While we're in the school hall, does anyone remember grace before lunch?
"We thank the heavenly father for all our tender care,
For food and clothes and shelter, and all the world so fair. Amen" < Then the scrape of chairs!
One I remember from Sunday School was:
"We close our eyes so they may be,
From all our work and play set free...."
Also at Sunday School, we had these coloured sheets on a pad that you filled in then tore them out to reveal next weeks activities. I think they came from a religious bookshop in central Manchester.
I'm sure I'll be adding more to this thread as the memories reappear!
We used to sing this when I was at infants school back in the early 70s. It's really simple, but is one that I remember well.
Glad that I live am I
That the sky is blue
Glad for the country lanes
And the fall of dew
After the sun the rain
After the rain the sun
This is the way of life
Till the work be done
All that we need to do
Be we low or high
Is to see that we grow
Nearer the sky
Awww, yes, I remember that one so well.......I can hear it as clearly as if it was yesterday! Isn't it amazing how these things come back to you so vividly?
Does anyone remember the one about the man who built his house on the hill and the other on the sand and then the floods came and the man whose house was on the sand was washed away? It was something like that and I can barely remember it.
The wise man built his house upon the rock (x3)
and the rain came tumbling down.
The rain came down and the floods came up (x3)
and the house on the rock stood firm
The foolish man built his house upon the sand (x3)
and the rain came tumbling down.
The rain came down and the floods came up (x3)
And the house on the sand went SPLAT!!!
I also remember Autumn Days, and we used to shout the last line of the song - oh the excitement! What else...Zaccheus was a very little man and a very little man was he...123 Jesus loves me, 3, 4 he loves you more, 5,6,7 we're going to heaven, 8,9 it's truly devine.
(Ok ok my parents were the leaders of Sunday school, and being their daughter I had to know all the words possible!!)
Does anyone out there remember a quite mournful, sombre song about the Autumn. The only actual line I remember is the last one - "Autumn time is here", but throughout the song it goes on about seeing leaves turning to brown, the nights drawing in etc. I can remember the tune vividly and thinking back it sends shivers down my spine, because it seemed really quite a sad and depressing piece to hear echoing around a school hall.
I don't suppose it was "Come Ye Thankful People, Come"? That's quite a sombre autumn song, although I don't remember singing it in school much.
The saddest song I remember from school was "Think of a World Without Any Flowers" which was actually a very minor and bleak tune (until you got to the brighter, but brief, chorus).
In junior school in the '70's we had an absolutely bonkers headmaster who would make up his own words to go with the traditional tunes. For example, 'Sing Hosanna' went:
'Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Give me umption in my gumption all day
Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Let me function throughout the school day'
There was also something like 'And the devil said "Keep shovelling the coalium, ee-olium, ee-olium"!!!
One term he didn't term up, and we later found up he'd bankrupted the school buying video recorders for each classroom (they were massively expensive back then) and been sacked....
No disrespect to him, but your ex-headmaster sounds absolutely mental. I laughed at that "cumption in my bumption" song.
Was it called "Everybody's building?" Something like "Everybody's building, everybody's building day by day...." Ahhh, I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered this song!
YES! That's the one. Actually, DarkJediMaster suggested this title too, a couple of pages ago. I'd forgotten to check it out. So my thanks to both of you. I was beginning to think I'd dreamt the song!
I have now found the lyrics (believe it or not they came from a similar thread in some other forum)…
"All over the world, everywhere, where the sun shines, and where the white snow gleams
In the green green forests and by the streams, hands are busy, plans are made
And slowly, slowly, somewhere somebody's house is made
Everybody's building, everybody's building, everybody's building day by day
Everybody's building everybody's building, everybody's building in a diiiiiiiiifferent way"
Funny though. I remember the tune pretty well, but I can't remember the tune to the main "Everybody's building" bit. Can anyone somehow describe it? Notes would do (I'm a musician). Or just tell me where the rests were.
Comments
'Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Give me umption in my gumption all day
Give me umption in my gumption let me function
Let me function throughout the school day'
There was also something like 'And the devil said "Keep shovelling the coalium, ee-olium, ee-olium"!!!
One term he didn't term up, and we later found up he'd bankrupted the school buying video recorders for each classroom (they were massively expensive back then) and been sacked....
There's so many stories about that guy, like the kangaroo court on stage in front of the whole school for these two boys who blocked the toilets, but that's a different story entirely.....
And I remember one that had the line in the chorus "Sing hosanna" in the chorus. i sang "Sing Susannah for two years at primary school!!! Deaf old bag that I am!
cauliflowers fluffy, and cabages green
strawberries sweeter than any ive seen!
er...line?
Kum-ba-yah (often the lads would sing cucumber lol)
You shall go out with joy...
Morning has broken
Autumn Days
The slate is black, the chalk is white
There were so many (I was one of the OHP operators in assembly) and Mr Burrows our headteacher at the time would keep rewinding the tapes over and over again if we got it wrong.
"First word, you missed the first word"
and often hed ask someone to "Be thinking" of a song. I was asked twice
I do remember some sort of like pipe song that we had to clap to instead of sing as there were no words. If we miss timed that, we were for it.
i remember that, the last line was 'broadbeans sleeping in a blankety bed'
we used to sing michael finnigan too at school in assembly
the once was a man call michael finnigan
he grew whiskers on his chin-igan
the wind came out and blew them in again
poor old michael finnigan begin again:D
I thought I was the only person in the world who remembered this!
'We're public guardians bold yet wary, and of ourselves we take good care. Of our precious lives we're scary(? or something...), when danger looms we're never there.'
I remember singing this to my dad who found it hilarious.
A lot of these I remember from Sunday School rather than school, so here's a couple more people may have sung:
Joy is the flag flying high from the castle of my heart,
from the castle of my heart,
from the castle of my heart.
Joy is the flag flying high from the castle of my heart,
for the king is in residence there.
Let it fly! in the sky! Let the whole world know
Let the whole world know
Let the whole world know
Let it fly! in the sky! Let the whole world know
for the king is in residence there.
and
Join the gospel express,
come along and say yes,
It's leaving for glory soon.
La la la, dum de da,
La la la, dum de da,
It's leaving for glory soon.
Peep! Peep! Peep!
Goes the whistle,
Chuff! Chuff! Chuff!
Goes the train
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Goes the engine.
For we're off on the glory train.
There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions,
They're two a penny, far too many there must be.
There are hundreds of sparrows, thousands, millions,
For God made every one and God made me.
Bwahaha! Brilliant!
I used to sing that one really loud, because it was SWEARING! :eek:
"Oh bloody! Oh Blah Da"
You shall go out with joy,
and be led forth with peace,
and the mountains and the hills will break forth before you,
and there'll be shouts of joy,
and all the trees of the field,
will clap, will clap their hands!
Hymn lyrics are frickin weird when you think about them!
I'm so glad to find out I wasn't the only one!
Most of the songs we had to sing had been written up on ginormous sheets of paper by hand, in black marker, by the school secretary - who was also the requisite piano player. But for some reason this one wasn't, it was one of the ones that everyone just seemed to be expected to "know" the words to, so I never actually saw the lyrics written down. In fact I think I may only have realised the actual lyric after leaving school altogether
Does anyone out there remember a quite mournful, sombre song about the Autumn. The only actual line I remember is the last one - "Autumn time is here", but throughout the song it goes on about seeing leaves turning to brown, the nights drawing in etc. I can remember the tune vividly and thinking back it sends shivers down my spine, because it seemed really quite a sad and depressing piece to hear echoing around a school hall. It's definitely not the "Autumn Days" song that loads of other posters have mentioned, because that seems to be an uplifting piece. I'm dying to know the name and find the lyrics somewhere. I went to Primary between 1982 - 1990, I wonder if it's still used in assemblies now.
Autumn days and the grass is jeweled,
And the silk inside a chestnut shell.
Jet-planes meeting in the air to be refueled
Oh the things I know so well
Oh I mustn't forget!
No I mustn't forget!
To say a great big thank-you,
I mustn't forget!
Lol - those lyrics were awful!
We used to sing that in Primary school when ever someone left. We would all be sitting on the floor (except p7 who sat on benches down the sides) and we'd have to split in the middle for them to walk out lol!
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love;
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the test,
That lays 'pon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.
And they thought they had a ship, That the water would never go through
But the lords almighty hand, Knew that ship would never land
It was sad when that great ship went down.
Chorus:
It was sad, mighty sad, it was sad, mighty sad
It was sad when that great ship went down
Husbands and wives little children lost their lives
It was sad when that great ship went down.
Does anyone remember that song? It was my favourite.
and I also liked:
Casey Jones, Steamin' and a rollin'
Casey Jones, you never have to guess,
When you hear the tootin' of the whistle
It's Casey at the throttle of the cannonball Express.
Another few I've just remember-not so much hymns
Mick McGillgan's Ball
"Michael McGilligan one fine day got a lot of money from the USA, all from the death of his Uncle Joe, he got a million & half or so...."
All God's Creatures Have A Place In The Choir (somebody has to remember this one!!)
"All God's creatures have a place in the choir, some sing low, some sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire. Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they got now!"
Teachers Taking Us To The Zoo Tomorrow
We also sang this. And I also remember singing this one as well.
Was it called "Everybody's building?" Something like "Everybody's building, everybody's building day by day...." Ahhh, I thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered this song!
Don't know if this has already been mentioned (I haven't read the whole thread yet....I got so excited when I saw the above lyrics I just had to respond quick!)....but does anyone remember a lovely folky song called Judas And Mary? "Said Judas to Mary, now what will you do...."
OK, now I'm off to read the whole thread and wallow in nostalgia!
I've loads of memories of sitting on the polished woodblock floor (that hadn't been swept!) and the wafts of school dinner smells emerging from behind the wooden roller shutters.
We often entered assembly accompanied by Chai Mai playing on a 33rpm with a square label, which looked odd revolving on the turntable. The cassette player was a standard issue educational supplier item consisting of one 12" bass driver with tape player on top, full logic control (designed for stop/start applications), tape counter and 5-DIN mic input. They never cleaned the heads though! This was next to the telly on casters with the front flaps (we all had them in the 80's!).
In about 1990 the record player fried and my school probably spent half its annual budget on an Aiwa music centre complete with CD, turntable, double cassette and equaliser. It was about the size of a pay and display meter. I was entrusted to play the CD "Lloyd Webber play Lloyd Webber", the first song being Variations. I had to fade it down when given the nod!
Tuesday mornings were special for us. We had requests from 9 till 10! I think all the other teachers just smoked in the staff room and drank coffee during this time.
I remember most of the above hymms, we had Come and Praise from the word go (c.1985). When the school could afford it, some new copies were circulated in amongst the dog-eared copies. When Come and Praise 2 emerged we had sheets that were photostats with purple ink, latterly photocopied as the school could initially only afford a limited quantity. (Who remembers having to use both sides of an A4 sheet and the scrap paper drawer?) Of course, we had the OHP and the acetates in later years (c. 1991).
We also had a pink and green hymm book alongside Come and Praise which I've never been able to identify.
Some lyrics I remember are:
"Come down Zachius, down from the tree
Come down Zachius, give the Lord his tea."
But nobody's mentioned this yet:
CHORUS: "I will bring to you,
The best gifts I can offer,
I will sing to you,
The best things in my mind.
I’ll bring you ?? and bits of string,
I’ll bring you almost anything?
The summer evenings playing down our road
I will bring to you, the best things I can offer
I will bring to you, the best things in my mind"
I know, it's very vague but I'm sure it's in Come and Praise.
There was another one we sang with particular empashis on a certain line:
"The Earth is yours oh God,
You nouriSH IT with rain"
We had an all-inclusive happy clappy head teacher in later years who introduced us to a Jewish hymm, that went along the lines of:
"Shalom Shalom,
May peace be with you
Throughout your day
In all that you do, may peace be with you,
Shalom, Shalom"
While we're in the school hall, does anyone remember grace before lunch?
"We thank the heavenly father for all our tender care,
For food and clothes and shelter, and all the world so fair. Amen" < Then the scrape of chairs!
One I remember from Sunday School was:
"We close our eyes so they may be,
From all our work and play set free...."
Also at Sunday School, we had these coloured sheets on a pad that you filled in then tore them out to reveal next weeks activities. I think they came from a religious bookshop in central Manchester.
I'm sure I'll be adding more to this thread as the memories reappear!
Awww, yes, I remember that one so well.......I can hear it as clearly as if it was yesterday! Isn't it amazing how these things come back to you so vividly?
Anyone up for a Digital Spy sing-song?
The wise man built his house upon the rock (x3)
and the rain came tumbling down.
The rain came down and the floods came up (x3)
and the house on the rock stood firm
The foolish man built his house upon the sand (x3)
and the rain came tumbling down.
The rain came down and the floods came up (x3)
And the house on the sand went SPLAT!!!
I also remember Autumn Days, and we used to shout the last line of the song - oh the excitement! What else...Zaccheus was a very little man and a very little man was he...123 Jesus loves me, 3, 4 he loves you more, 5,6,7 we're going to heaven, 8,9 it's truly devine.
(Ok ok my parents were the leaders of Sunday school, and being their daughter I had to know all the words possible!!)
The saddest song I remember from school was "Think of a World Without Any Flowers" which was actually a very minor and bleak tune (until you got to the brighter, but brief, chorus).
Many thanks for the contributions (and compliments).
The thread has actually had a resurgence — I started it in June last year!
Anyone who gets nostalgic about school might enjoy this game:
http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/rjordan/klass/screens.htm
It's a free re-make of an old Spectrum game (called Skooldaze).
LOL!
I had a rather twisted thought: imagine if there'd been a hymn called "You Make Me Gay, Lord".
Wouldn't that have gone down a storm in schools?
Yeah. Why can't hymns just tell it straight without using bizarre metaphors? Still, I guess songs would be no fun without the bizarre metaphors.
YES! That's the one. Actually, DarkJediMaster suggested this title too, a couple of pages ago. I'd forgotten to check it out. So my thanks to both of you. I was beginning to think I'd dreamt the song!
I have now found the lyrics (believe it or not they came from a similar thread in some other forum)…
"All over the world, everywhere, where the sun shines, and where the white snow gleams
In the green green forests and by the streams, hands are busy, plans are made
And slowly, slowly, somewhere somebody's house is made
Everybody's building, everybody's building, everybody's building day by day
Everybody's building everybody's building, everybody's building in a diiiiiiiiifferent way"
Funny though. I remember the tune pretty well, but I can't remember the tune to the main "Everybody's building" bit. Can anyone somehow describe it? Notes would do (I'm a musician). Or just tell me where the rests were.
I don't know about school, but my grandma used to sing this to me…
"Now, Zaccheus was a very little man,
and a very little man was he.
He climbed into a sycamore tree,
for the Savior he wanted to see.
And when the Savior came that way,
he looked up in the tree,
And said 'Now Zaccheus you come down
cos I'm going to your house for tea!'"
As a child, I always had the image of Jesus Christ sitting in a dining room with a cup of tea in his hand eating sandwiches.