Come and Praise
{{Short description|Hymnal published by the BBC}}
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Come and Praise{{Cite book | isbn = 978-0563345800 | title = The Complete Come and Praise | year = | publisher = BBC Active }} is a hymnal published by the BBC and widely used in collective worship in British schools. The hymnal was compiled by Geoffrey Marshall-Taylor with musical arrangements by Douglas Coombes, and includes well-known hymns such as “Oil in My Lamp”, “Kum Ba Yah” and “Water of Life” as well as Christmas carols and Easter hymns.{{Cite web|url=http://www.assemblies.org.uk/leading-assemblies/advice-music/|title = SPCK Assemblies - Leading Assemblies - Music}}
Volumes
Two volumes were published: Come and Praise in 1978,Since reissued as Come and Praise 1, {{ISBN|0563320672}} and Come and Praise 2 in 1988.{{Cite book|isbn = 0563342471|title = Come and Praise|year = 1988}} {{Cite book|last1=Strhan|first1=Anna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYCoDQAAQBAJ&q=%22Come+and+Praise%22&pg=PA279|title=The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood|last2=Parker|first2=Stephen G.|last3=Ridgely|first3=Susan|date=2017-01-26|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4742-5111-2|language=en}} The hymns from both volumes were published together in The Complete Come and Praise in 1990.
CDs
=CD 1 =
- Morning has broken
- Water of life
- All things bright and beautiful
- Autumn days
- Somebody greater
- The earth is yours, O God
- Let us with a gladsome mind
- Who put the colours in the rainbow?
- Song of Caedmon
- All nations of the earth
- God knows me
- When God made the garden of creation
- Think of a world without any flowers
- He made me
- He's got the whole world
- Come my brothers, praise the Lord
- Come and praise the Lord our King
- Lord of the dance
- Go tell it on the mountain
- When Jesus walked in Galilee
- Jesus Christ is here
- A man for all people
- Judas and Mary
- From the darkness came light
- Join with us
- God has promised
- Thank you Lord
- Praise the Lord in everything
- God is love
= CD 2 =
- Praise Him
- Fill thou my life
- Travel on
- Give me oil in my lamp
- He who would valiant be
- The journey of life
- One more step
- Father, hear the prayer we offer
- We are climbing
- When a knight won his spurs
- Lord of all hopefulness
- Peace, perfect peace
- The King of love
- Colours of day
- The Lord's my shepherd
- Lost and found
- The best gift
- I listen and I listen
- The building song
- Spirit of God
- The wise may bring their learning
- When I needed a neighbour
- In Christ there is no east or west
- Black and White
- Kum ba yah
- The family of Man
- Cross over the road
- If I had a hammer
- A living song{{Cite web|title=The Complete "Come And Praise" (Music and Words Edition) BBC - Opus 13|url=https://www.opus13.co.uk/spweb/details.php?catno=BW81021|access-date=2020-09-04|website=www.opus13.co.uk}}{{Cite web|title=The Complete Come and Praise|url=http://www.godsongs.net/2018/02/the-complete-come-and-praise-bbc-schools-english-hymn-book.html|access-date=2020-09-04}}