hymns from my childhood Options

[Alicia Ocean]

I've recently acquired an old hymn book and am delighted to find I know about 80 hymns. Words I've forgotten for over 40 years just needed prompting. Looking through that index of first lines has made me remember a couple of hymns that are missing. I guess we had a different hymn book when I was at school. I'm sure it would be readily available if I knew what I was looking for. I know I can easily google the lyrics - but I'd like to get a copy of the book so I can see what else I remember.

The missing hymns - first verse -

God has given us a book full of stories,
Which was made for His people of old,
It begins with the tale of a garden,
And ends with the city of gold.

and

When God made creation,
In true adoration
The stars of the morning all shouted his praise;
The sun in his splendor,
The moon, young and tender,
Sang: 'Praise to the Lord, the Ancient of Days'

Does anyone know which book these are in? Thanks.

[fsharpminor]

We regularly sang God hasgiven us a bookful of stories at Methodist Sunday School.

Who remembers 'Glad that I live am I '?

[Alicia Ocean]

Glad that I live am I - That the sky is blue.

yes - I know that one. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[fsharpminor]

..... And Jesus bids us shine ?

[maggiemay]

I remember 'When God made creation ' from a book we used at a school in the 70s. I have memories of a blue and mauve cover, built not the name of the book, sorry.

Another one I remember from the same book was 'I love to hear the robin sing'. Or was that perhaps not the first verse? Hmmm.

Yes, I remember 'Glad that I live ' too.

(edit) All things which live below the sky. The robin line is the second verse.

[principal4]

"Glad that I live am I" - ah, yes, I remember it. And who could forget the lines "All that we have to do/Be we low or high/Is to see that we grow/Nearer the sky"?

Anyone remember "Daisies are our silver/Buttercups our gold"?

P4

[Alicia Ocean]

Anyone remember "Daisies are our silver/Buttercups our gold"?

"This is all the treasure we can have or hold."

Which I think might be the origin of my little obsession with collecting trinkets and small items of treasure - the being told from an early age that I was only allowed daisies and buttercups. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[Halka]

"Glad that I live am I" - ah, yes, I remember it. And who could forget the lines "All that we have to do/Be we low or high/Is to see that we grow/Nearer the sky"?
P4

I remember it too! So does no one sing it any more?

The hymn I most associate with my childhood is "When a knight won his spurs".

[maggiemay]

We are but little children weak....... Anyone?

[BerkshireMum]

We are but little children weak....... Anyone?

I don't remember that one, I'm afraid. How about "In our dear Lord's garden, planted here below"?

[maggiemay]

No, sorry, but yes to Daisies and When a knight.

Loving shepherd
Christ who once amongst us
There's a friend for little children
Do no sinful action.

[fsharpminor]

Yes I remember ' In our Dear Lords garden' and ' When a Knight'

One I mentioned earlier was:-

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

Yes I remember ' In our Dear Lords garden' and ' When a Knight'

One I mentioned earlier was:-

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

Then there was 'When Zacchues was a vey little man

And 'only a boy called David' about the Goliath story

[Alicia Ocean]

and the terrible...

Little things that run and quail
And die in silence and despair

Little things that fight and fail
And fall on sea and earth and air

All trapped and frightened little things
The mouse, the coney, hear our prayer


(possible what drove me to become a vegetarian years later)

[jod]

"Glad that I live am I" - ah, yes, I remember it. And who could forget the lines "All that we have to do/Be we low or high/Is to see that we grow/Nearer the sky"?
P4

I remember it too! So does no one sing it any more?

The hymn I most associate with my childhood is "When a knight won his spurs".

Both of those, and I do not recall singing either of these recently.

'Jesus friend of little children be a friend to me',

was another one we had at school.

I was also pleased that our school version of 'Who would true valour see' was Bunyan's original complete with 'Hobgoblins nor foul fiend' rather than the Percy Dearmer version that rather looses its punch.

Unfortunately it was at that time I was equated with Camberwell and Hatherop Castle, however they sounded somewhat better on the school piano then they ever do on an Organ.

On the subject of 'Happy Clappy Hymns' my friend who works for Kevin Mayhew is not enjoying type-setting a bunch of them. He has no editorial control so just has to make them look pretty. He finds it fiddly and musically uninspiring.

[mrbouffant]

We always seemed to sing

When a knight won his spurs, in the stories of old,
He was gentle and brave, he was gallant and bold;
With a shield on his arm and a lance in his hand
For God and for valour he rode through the land.

What a great tune. Well I thought so when I was 7, and still do - a few years later (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)