you personally took to heart and implemented the following primary song lyrics?
If you chance to meet a frown Do not let it stay Quickly turn it upside down and smile that frown away
No one likes a frowny face Change it for a smile Make the world a better place By smiling all the while
Do you practice this on a regular basis? Are there certain things that you find too encumbering to do something this simple that comes naturally to innocent children?
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I hate this song. Which is interesting, since I'm such a happy person.
See, this evil lady was creeping me out at a RS function when I was 2 or 3 and I was giving her my evil eye. She started singing this song and threatened to grab me and hold me up by my ankles to turn my frown upside down.
Funny how you forget things until it's brought to your attention again some 3 decades later. Thanks very much.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Okay... so the song triggers some repressed toddler emotional trauma baggage for coco...
But, then again, memories of forced attendance at RS for any toddler would probably do the same. For me, my toddler RS trauma was thanks to the taste of blue cheese (sometime until my mid-teens). They were having h'or d'ouerves, and they looked yummy. I picked up one off the tray (I was maybe two or three) and plopped it in my mouth only to have the taste make me sick to my stomach. I barely made it out of the room (I knew better than to toss me cookies on the carpet in the RS room) before losing it all on the tiled hall floor.
Yet, many years later, with the help of dedicated Primary teachers and Young Men's advisors, I was able to put that trauma behind me. And now, I not only embrace the stinky cheese, but relish a cheese with those nice thick green and blue streaks of piquant tasting penicillin molds running through 'em! I have even been known to buy exotic varieties like Stilton and Cambozola at the local gourmet market on occasion and then snack on them in the evening!
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Occasionally I've sung the first couple lines of it to certain types of patients at our nursing home, when they sit w/a huge frown/grimace. I will say your smile is upside down, turn my head somewhat upside down and sing a line or t wo.
Living the song in my personal life is harder though do try to bite my tongue/perseveare and not complain and be a grump.
Gee, today I ate a quick snack at McDonalds. There was a long line and the lady at the front of the line was being rude and complaining about something to the manager. There was only one person at the cash register, and the whole line of people had to hear the complaints.
If I'd seen this thread before being in that line, maybe I could have sung to that lady!
OK- I was just kidding- I wouldn't do this! I did go up later and tell the manager I thought she was very polite/respectful w/that rude lady.
Once when my son was about 4 I was helping him get ready for church and he was in a bad mood. After I got his shoes tied I looked at him and we had this conversation:
me: Why are you so frowny? son: I don't know. me: You know what we need to do? son: What? me: Turn that frown upside down (said while I grabbed him and flipped him upside down). son: [yowls and screeches].
When I turned him right side up he was smiling.
I don't think this caused any emotional scaring because it fell under the broad heading of "wrestling with dad," which is one of his favorite activities. He thinks he will beat me one of these times, and I suppose one day he will, but that day is still many years away.
Is there a song with music that bring to your brain the sound of nails on a chalkboard for you Cat???
I don't mind the lyrics... I never had any emotional or physical trauma associated with it... Just nails on a chalkboard... It's the music... someone said to me once... "but, it's so catchy!" To which I replied... "Maybe if you are tone deaf!!!" I immediately felt bed cause I love that person and I hurt her feelings... You know... that Snowman song is the same... gah... what some people want to pass off as music sometimes really makes me wonder...
Okay, that Polly, was definitely a pop fly easy out! Oi vey!
(p.s. I'll take Once There Was a Snowman as music any day over Rap... )
For me it is that stupid Little Purple Pansies song... To be able to survive singing it, me and the other macho boys would sing "Little Purpler Panzers"
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
Little purple pansies touched with yellow gold, Growing in one corner of the garden old; We are very tiny but must try, try, try, If somebody steps on us we'll die, die, die.
When I was serving as Primary music leader, that slipped out once. Of course, the kids thought it was hilarious and repeated it about six thousand times. The next week, I was kindly informed by a good sister just how inappropriate it was, and how I had ruined her best tool for disciplining her children. If I was her child, I wouldn't stop running.
Understand that if anyone on this forum starts dissing Primary songs, Roper's will not be turning upside down any time soon! Jason, Mirkwood, Coco--ya'll are on thin ice.
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Okay, that Polly, was definitely a pop fly easy out! Oi vey!
(p.s. I'll take Once There Was a Snowman as music any day over Rap... )
For me it is that stupid Little Purple Pansies song... To be able to survive singing it, me and the other macho boys would sing "Little Purpler Panzers"
There is a song about Little Purple Pansies? Yikes!
One of the kids in our prmary LOVES the snowman song and we've had to sing it even in the late s ummer/early fall. But she and the kids love it, so it is great! :)
Roper: Yeah, I get in trouble all the time for singing, "Follow the Prophet, Follow the Prophet, Follow the prophet, Don't burn in Hell..."
I believe the church has issued requests that members not alter the text of the primary songs--no matter how well-meaning--probably because of now snappy my alternative lyrics are...
--Ray
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Except on the Jonah verse, ray, it's Swallow the Prophet, Swallow the Prophet...
We'll have races when I'm playing in Primary to the Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes song. Piano always wins. he he
For the record I enjoy the panties, I mean pansies song. And also the Snowman song. Give said the little stream was one of my all-time favorites along with Tell me the stories of Jesus. And I'm so glad we're not gay when grandpa comes anymore. Of course, we'd just act like nothing is wrong, really...
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
We no longer romp and play outside, during the The Chapel Doors song either, which was a song written more to a primary that was held during the weekdays... and had to be adapted. Though I still remember the old words...
--Ray
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
Ahhh.... Primary on Wednesday. I remember that. Seems like there was another song a long time ago... what was it? Something about fjords or something... can't.... remember...
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Much easier to exasperate primary teachers on mid-week primary than on Sunday... my class consisted of me and one other boy my age, and we went through 3 teachers in one year... (and we were bishop's son, first counselor's son, respectively... now, we didn't know we were being mean / rude, we were just being young cub scout age boys in the mid '70's)
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
I'm so Bad when Daddy comes home, Bad as I can Be, Kick him in the shins real hard and hit him in the knees. put my hands around his neck squeeze him tight like this pull his beard and give him what? A great big kick!
Don't you wish you were my primary teacher back in the day?
I love "Give Said the Little Stream" too. I use it for inbetween when the Junior Primary is coming back in to join the Senior for closing. We pass around a toy "giving" to each other to see if they can pass it all around the room before the end of the song. But I don't care what the Songbook says, the lyric is grass. The GRASS grows greener still.
When I was serving as Primary music leader, that slipped out once. Of course, the kids thought it was hilarious and repeated it about six thousand times. The next week, I was kindly informed by a good sister just how inappropriate it was, and how I had ruined her best tool for disciplining her children. If I was her child, I wouldn't stop running.
Not much can make me , but that did it! Air! I need air!
will not be turning upside down any time soon! Jason, Mirkwood, Coco--ya'll are on thin ice.
