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Thread: What is the first religious song you can ever remember learning?
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Chorister
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At home? At Sunday School? At school? When you joined a choir?
Songs learnt in childhood can be very powerful and can stay with you for life. One of the earliest ones I learnt was one my grandmother used to go around the house singing:
'Count your blessings, name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord has done'.
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At church, it was "When He Cometh", which, frankly, I still find rather perplexing but very fun to sing. (Which is also true of "When Mothers of Salem", another church standard back in the day.)
At the evangelical VBS in town, you know, that we took the big bus to and that paid us in chocolate Smarties for each friend we brought, it was "His Banner Over Me is Love". It has some perplexing bits too but the chorus is totally kid friendly and made sense. Also fun to sing and included actions.
Chorus:
For God loves you
and I love you
and that's the way it should be.
Alleluia.
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Given what 'his banner over me' means, not sure that's very child-friendly! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
The first one I remember learning was Shine Jesus Shine, from watching Songs of Praise with my great-grandmother.
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Trisagion
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I bob un sydd ffyddlon
[ 28. March 2014, 22:37: Message edited by: Trisagion ]
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mousethief
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The wise man built his house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock
The wise man built his house upon the rock
And the rains came tumbling down
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
And the house on the rock stood firm.
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
The foolish man built his house upon the sand
And the rains came tumbling down
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
The rains came down and the floods came up
And the house on the sand went pbbth
(There were hand motions but I've long forgot them. I was about 6.)
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Dubious Thomas
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Jesus loves me this I know....
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שפך חמתך אל־הגוים אשר לא־ידעוך
Psalm 79:6
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cliffdweller
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In Sunday School I can remember singing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam"-- schmaltzy, but cute. In children's choir I remember singing "Fairest Lord Jesus". And in church I remember singing "We Gather Together" at Thanksgiving time.
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Hedgehog
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Holy, Holy, Holy by Reginald Heber. I think my parents came to dread that song as I insisted on singing it to them over and over....
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Uncle Pete
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Jesus loves me, this I know
and O come, all ye faithful, the last is still one of my favourites, although I now sing it in Latin.
When I was dragged to church as a child (and after I learnt to read) my favourite hymn was Holy, Holy, Holy which was hymn number one in the Canadian Anglican Book of Common praise. I was an inveterate reader of the Index of First Lines, and used to amuse myself during the boring parts of the service by moving back to the hymn from the Index.
Nearly 45 years a Catholic (April 6, 1969) and I still remember all those (mostly evangelical) hymns, few of which I have heard since then.
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MrsBeaky
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We are one in the Spirit
We sang this regularly during Mass at my Convent School and even now I still sometimes find myself humming away....and I'm still passionate about its message too.
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Jante
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The first I learnt was Count your blessings- but the one I learnt fairly soon after and which has stayed with me is Hold The Fort for I am coming, Jesus signals still. I always chose it if given the opportunity at Sunday School
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The first I remember learning was Swing Low, Sweet Chariot which I learned from my father aged about four. Rather ironic considering he we have both always been Welsh rugby supporters, I didn't learn Cwm Rhondda until a few years later
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Jengie jon
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Earliest known (I cannot remember learning it but I must) is the last verse of Away in a Manger
I love the Lord Jesus I ask thee to stay
close by me forever and ever I pray
Bless all the dear children to thy tender care
and take us to heave to live with thee there.
However the two I remember
Dropping dropping dropping
Here the pennies dropping
everyone for Jesus
he shall have them all
which was the collections hymn every week at Sunday School.
I am H a p p y, I am H a p p y
I know I am, I sure I am
I am H a p p y.
Which was the one verse my Gran taught me. It does not even look religious until you know that there is a verse that S A V E D instead of H A P P Y
I am slightly worried about the theology of this.
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Lift high the Cross to the Sydney Nicholson tune.
It was at my father's Induction and I could read the hymn book for the first time. Still one of my favourites...
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Jesus bids us shine with a pure clear light
Like a little candle burning in the night.
In this world of darkness so we must shine
You in your small corner and I in mine.
I can remember singing this in kindergarten (the school would probably not be allowed to indoctrinate kids these days).
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Galilit
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Ditto, Bib!
Also "Glorious things of thee are spoken" which I still love despite the main tune for it being Austria. Fascists have the best music!
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Adam.
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The first I can remember is Morning has broken, sung at school. I remember it because one of our punishments at school was being made to stand in a corner of the playground, watching the other children play but not being allowed participate. It was commonly referred to as "seeing play," eg. "Bertie was naughty, so he had to see play." Thus, I completely mis-parsed and misinterpreted that line "Born of the one light // Eden saw play."
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Gracious rebel
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Another one here for H-A-P-P-Y in the 'primary' section of Sunday school (age from 3).
I also recall my Grandma singing all the time:
'Climb, Climb up Sunshine Mountain
Heavenly breezes blow
Climb, Climb up Sunshine Mountain
Faces all aglow
Leave all your cares behind you
looking to the sky
Climb, Climb up Sunshine Mountain
You and I'
Once again, looking at the words, it doesn't even seem particularly 'religious' but it certainly felt like it!
Other early Sunday School choruses were 'Build on the rock'
'I will make you fishers of men'
'I met Jesus at the Crossroads'
and many more. All these I knew before I was five.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Sweet Sacrament We Thee Adore
Although I heard the line "Oh with what gifts of fervent praise" as "Oh and what gives with irreverent praise."
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Hate to say it, but it was probably Kum Ba Yah. Which is right up there with Shine Jesus Shine. Corn syrupy goodness.
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Enoch
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Probably either All things bright and beautiful or Awake my soul and with the sun which in those far off days quite often used to mark the beginning of the school day.
I've heard All things bright and beautiful fairly recently. I used to like the bit about the purple headed mountain, the river running by. But does anyone still sing Awake my soul and with the sun these days. It's the opposite number to Glory to thee, my God this night.
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Anselmina
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The birds up in the tree-tops sing this song
they fill the air with music all day long;
the flowers in the garden, praise him too
So why shouldn't I, why shouldn't you, praise him too.
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Abigail
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I didn’t go to church as a child but remember learning hymns at school. There are two that I associate with my earliest time at primary school, which we seemed to sing over and over again. One was ‘Winter Creeps’ and all I can remember of it is this:
Winter creeps,
Nature sleeps,
Leaves are shed,
All is dead.
God's alive,
Grow and grive, [??]
[something about May and June]
Nought but green
Will be seen.
And the other was
For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth
Over and around us lies…
And I always used to wonder what a ‘lovewhich’ was. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Stetson
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Not sure if this is the absolute first, but I recall learning to sing it in Grade 3 or so, which makes it pretty early.
Matthew Mark, Luke, and John
Heard good news and they passed it on.
Learn, listen, look and see.
The gospel books for you and me.
Good News! Good News!
The gospel means Good News.
Shout it!
Good News! Good News! The gospel means Good News!
And while I doubt that I had ever heard of Satanism in Grade 3, it must have just occured to me as a logical corrolary, because I remember singing to a friend...
Bad News! Bad News!
The devil's book means Bad News!
Granted, "the devil's book" was a pretty awkward stand-in for some hypothetical Satanic gospel, but since I did not at that point know the name of such a book...
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Stetson
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quote:
Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
We are one in the Spirit
We sang this regularly during Mass at my Convent School and even now I still sometimes find myself humming away....and I'm still passionate about its message too.
I think that song was meant to capture what the writer thought would have been the spirit of the early church, operating in a quasi-underground fashion as a minority faith.
Here's an obituary for the songwriter. As I had always assumed, the lyrics were a direct reference to the ecumenical movement.
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Stetson
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Peter Scholtes' Missa Bossa Nova
I guess Scholtes is one of the guys people might blame for the supposed aesthetic atrocity of folk-masses. I never knew those songs were supposed to be Bossa Nova. Nor, I suspect, did most of the white-bread suburbanites who sang them.
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jedijudy
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When I was wee, I loved singing the Sunday School songs!
'Jesus Loves Me' was probably the first I learned.
'One Door and Only One' was a favorite.
Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he!
'Climb, Climb Up Sunshine Mountain'.
Now I'm singing all of these! I can't stop!
'Happy Day Express' is in my head now.
Chorister! Thanks for all the ear worms!! ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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St. Gwladys
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quote:
Originally posted by Trisagion:
I bob un sydd ffyddlon
Good song - we used to sing it in assembly - that and Calon lan were the hymns for Welsh assembly.
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North East Quine
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I think it was "Away in a Manger" although "All Things Bright and Beautiful" is also a early memory.
At school, from age 5, we had the grace "Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you for the birds that sing, Thank you Lord for everything" which, whilst not a song, was chanted in a sing-song fashion.
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Jante
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Oh what memories all of these have brought back- along with Do you want a pilot signal then for Jesus, I have decided to follow Jesus, and from early school days At the Name of Jesus
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Edith
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Those two Latin ones at Benefiction. O Salutaris. And Tantum Ergo. I used to think they were about saluting and losing your temper.
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"Over the seas there are little black children."
Even then there were little black children in the UK, but not where I grew up except in schmaltzy patronizing song.
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Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
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Pia
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I remember lots of these from being very young indeed: definitely 'Jesus wants me for a sunbeam', 'I'm H-A-P-P-Y', and 'Jesus bids us shine'.
I also have very clear memories of this one, which had actions that went with it:
Only a boy named David
Only a little sling
Only a boy named David
But he could pray and sing
Only a boy named David
Only a rippling brook
Only a boy named David
But five little stones he took.
And one little stone went in the sling
And the sling went round and round
And one little stone went in the sling
And the sling went round and round
And round and round
And round and round
And round and round and round
And one little prayer went up to God
And the giant came tumbling down.
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Another one for, "Jesus Loves Me This I Know."
also J-E-S-U-S
he is the one I am living for.
J-E-S-U-S.
more like a cheer then a song.
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balaam
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My introduction to playing a musical instrument was in junior school doing Ye Holy Angels Bright on chime bars. One chime bar for each child, I got the D chime bar. (At least I didn't get the F# bar or I'd have only got to ding once.)
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Kaplan Corday
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Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
Dropping dropping dropping
Here the pennies dropping
everyone for Jesus
he shall have them all
Same here.
Hear the pennies dropping
Listen while they fall
Every one for Jesus,
He shall have them all
Dropping, dropping, dropping, dropping
Hear the pennies fall
Every one for Jesus
He shall have them all
My mother always claimed that when she asked me, after my first Sunday School session, what we had sung, I replied, "Droppings".
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Dennis the Menace
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God owns the cattle on a thousand hills,
The wealth in ev'ry mine;
He owns the rivers and the rocks and rills,
The sun and stars that shine.
Wonderful riches, more than tongue can tell -
He is my Father so they're mine as well;
God owns the cattle on a thousand hills -
I know that He will care for me.
Can't remember the rest. My Mum used to sing that to me every night when she put me to bed.About 60 years ago!!
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jedijudy
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Does anyone else get a smile remembering 'Do Lord'?
'This Little Light of Mine' is still a favorite with our choir, sung to a jazzy accompaniment.
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The Rogue
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From school (aged 8) "Oh Jesus I have Promised" and "He who would valiant be".
From Sunday School "Now Zacheus was a very little man".
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Drifting Star
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quote:
Originally posted by Abigail:
I didn’t go to church as a child but remember learning hymns at school. There are two that I associate with my earliest time at primary school, which we seemed to sing over and over again. One was ‘Winter Creeps’ and all I can remember of it is this:
Winter creeps,
Nature sleeps,
Leaves are shed,
All is dead.
God's alive,
Grow and grive, [??]
[something about May and June]
Nought but green
Will be seen.
Winter creeps,
Nature sleeps;
Birds are gone,
Flowers are none,
Fields are bare,
Bleak the air,
Leaves are shed:
All seems dead.
God’s alive!
Grow and Thrive,
Hidden away,
Bloom of May,
Robe of June,
Very soon
Nought but green
Will be seen!
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Trudy Scrumptious
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Having been taken to church every week since I was one week old I'm pretty sure most of the hymns and songs soaked into my consciousness long before I was aware of them. I know that quite early on I learned all the children's "standards" in Sabbath School -- Jesus Loves Me, Jesus Loves the Little Children, The B-I-B-L-E, etc. I had forgotten about "Jesus Bids us Shine" until someone mentioned it above, but that was one of the ones I learned quite early on too.
But the songs that linger with me longest are the ones my great-aunt, who was my daily caregiver while my parents worked and in whose house we lived, used to sing to me. "When He Cometh" was one of her favourites and to this day it takes me right back to the kitchen of my childhood. Another one she often sang, which I haven't heard anywhere else, was,
Someone shall enter the pearly gates
By and by, by and by
Feast on the pleasures that there await,
Shall you? Shall I?
It had a very haunting, melancholy tune (at least, as my aunt sang it) which seemed to fit well with the theological message, which as a child made me feel that salvation was a bit of a matter of random chance. Anyone else remember that one?
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Abigail
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Thank you Drifting Star!
Yes, 'Grow and thrive' makes more sense ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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balaam
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
Does anyone else get a smile remembering 'Do Lord'?
'This Little Light of Mine' is still a favorite with our choir, sung to a jazzy accompaniment.
You have just created an image in my mind of a New Orleans marching band playing this song.
Thank You.
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Sir Kevin
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Onward Christian Soldiers I learned at primary school (nursery school) when I was three and I also sang it at Sunday School.
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Siegfried
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In addition to "Jesus Loves Me" and "Zacchaeus", the other one I remember learning waaaaaaay back was:
The B-I-B-L-E
Yes, that's the book for me...
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I have no memory of learning "Away in a manger", but family legend has it I knew it all before I was 2.
"Jesus bides us shine" I certainly do remember learning before I started school, and before I started Sunday School.
"I may never march in the infantry" is possibly the first I remember learning in Sunday School, though "I will make you fishers of men" is also a strong contender there, along with "The wise man built his house upon the rock."
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If I were a butterfly was part of car journeys from a young age, as was Peter and James went to pray and met a lame man on they way and one about Peter James and John in a Sailboat
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Bene Gesserit
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Oh Jesus I have promised and Hark, the vesper hymn is stealing - and I still love Morning has broken
Edited for rubbish typing
[ 30. March 2014, 20:22: Message edited by: Bene Gesserit ]
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My Sunday school went for the militant
There's a fight to be fought and a race to be run
There are dangers to meet by the way.
But The Lord is my light and The Lord is my life
And The Lord is my strength and stay.
On how word I depend,
He's my Saviour and friend
And he tells me to trust and obey.
For The Lord is my light and The Lord is my life (long pause here on a high note!)
And The Lord is my strength and stay.
It was number 189 in the CSSM book. Eventually we were rationed to having it only once a month. Much more fun than By blue Galilee, which we also had. The second favourite was
When the road is fought and steep (clap, clap)
Fix your eyes upon Jesus....
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jedijudy
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Does anyone else get a smile remembering 'Do Lord'?
'This Little Light of Mine' is still a favorite with our choir, sung to a jazzy accompaniment.
You have just created an image in my mind of a New Orleans marching band playing this song.
Thank You.
I hope I don't ruin your image if I tell you our NO marching band is just me on the piano. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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