A while ago I began a quest to find a song I sang at Sunday School when I was a kid that taught me all the books of the Old Testament. Well…progress has been made. I received this comment from a lady called Paula today:
I was at my in-law’s church last week and they had the kids in Children’s CHurch sing it. I wanted to teach it to my 3 year old but had never heard it before, so I captured it on the video feature of my camera (I love technology). Today, I transcribed the words…
The Books of the Bible – All in a Row
Come on everybody let’s have some fun
The Old Testament is for everyone
Just sing with me and soon you’ll know
The Old Testament books all in a row
There’s Genesis, Exodus,
and Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy
Joshua, Judges follow along
And then we get to the book of Ruth
The following books are divided in Two
Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles too
Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, and Job
We’re halfway thru half way to go
Just sing with me and soon you’ll know
The Old Testament books all in a row
There’s Psalms and Proverbs
Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon,
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations
Ezekiel, Daniel and Hosea
Joel and Amos, Obadiah, and then,
the story of Jonah and the fish God sent
Micah, Nahum, and Habakkuk,
Zephaniah and Haggai,
Two more books
Zechariah and Malachi
And know you know
The Old Testament books all in a row
The first four books that come along
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
Then come Acts and Romans too
The first six books are easy to do
First and second Corinthians
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians
Remember Colossians next in line
With the two Thessalonians right behind
First and Second Timothy
We’re over halfway it’s easy to see
Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, and James
Now only seven books still remain
We’ve got 1st and 2nd Peter and then 1st John
John has 3 books before we go on
Now we’re almost done
There’s only Jude and Revelation
And now our song is through!
Now I have the words, all I need now is the tune. Does anyone have this song on a tape/cd? Does anyone know who wrote this?
Hi, I am also looking for this song to use in sunday school and i believe it to be by maranatha kids and was on a cassette called bible song sing along 2 along with lots of other scripture memory songs. If you find it please let me know.
Every blessing
Michelle
Hi:-)
Me too.. I too have been hunting for that song and the lyrics for the past one year. Thanks for the lyrics. I hope we’ll be able get the tune for it.
I have been searching, too!! Has anybody had any luck? My children had the entire tape, given to them for a Christmas present back in 1992…. It was red. We wore that thing out and when it broke, I even kept it to be able to find it easier…. now after 4 moves…. it’s somewhere in the attic in a box!!! LOL!!
I want to find this too!!! I loved that little red tape when I was little. I think I wore it out too actually. I wish I could find all those songs to download.
I have also been looking for this song . We used to play it all the time , but it somehow got away from us .
If any of you old CEFs or others find it please forward it to me!!!
Singing HIS praise,
Selena
I am trying to find the music for learning the books of the N T & OT . I think it was from CEF. If anyone has it please foward it to me.
Singing For Him
Grover
Dear Sir:
I would like the music or melody for the singing the books
of the Old Testament. Thank you so much!
Linda
There is a CD called Family Circle by McLean Family Singers that has the Old & New Testament Songs on it that are mentioned here. You can order them at restorationaudio.webs.com.
Another site to order from is christiansoup.com
Hope this is helpful!
Thanks Holly – 18 months after I began the search – the journey is over!
I got your email Dan… at first I was thinking it was spam but your message seemed to ring a bell on something I wanted long ago. I now remember posting a comment on your original post. I was able to recall the lyrics and the tune but never found the music. Thanks for the hunt!
When my 20-something kids were very young, we had a cassette tape with several cute songs on it. One of them was about the books of the New Testament and the first few words were: “the first four books to come along are Matthew, Mark and Luke and John…..” I don’t remember the rest but I loved to sing the song with them. Anyone have any ideas about this song?
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I love this little song! (Yup – that little red tape!!) Me and my brothers and sisters learned the books of the Bible from this song – it has always stuck with me. Now I have kids of my own, and I’d love to teach them this version. This is wonderful!!
How do I get the melody for the books of the bible. Want to use the song at C>E>F> Good News Club. Thanks, Sandy
See here – http://blogofdan.co.uk/?p=7335
Hi, what’s the title of the song? Is there any way I could download it? :)
Hi Reshel – thanks for stopping by – here’s a link with more information about the song – http://blogofdan.co.uk/?p=7335