At primary school, we used to sing hymns during assembly. We were given hymn books with the the words, and below each hymn was the name of its composer(s). I always used to wonder why this guy called Traditional wrote so many more hymns than everybody else.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe God had a pet tortoise. There was a hymn we sang that went "Great things he hath taught us"— Lozza
- When he was a kid, my husband thought the hymn "bringing in the sheaves" was "bringing in the cheese."Anon
- I thought that the women who drove the bookmobile actually wrote all of the books on the shelves.— Dan
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- When I was at primary school I used to believe you could only marry someone who was the same height as you!— Lucy
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff