Come, Follow Me: Suggested 4-Year Rotation Song Selections

Picking songs can be quite a feat! You pour over the lists of all of the monthly songs and your hand jotted notes of what songs they kids have already learned and try to piece it all together and come up with a plan.

Suggested 4-Year Rotation
of Primary Songs
for Come, Follow Me

To help simplify the process, I poured over my two different Come, Follow Me Printable Primary Song Rotation Lists and came up with what made the most sense to me for each of the songs. I picked one song per month for each of the 4 years with NO overlap in the songs. This way, I would be able to teach 40+ songs after 4 years, and then repeat those again to help the kids remember the songs anew.

This is just a framework that I created to help simplify my process for picking songs. It should be used as a guidepost only to help you in planning and preparing your song lists each year. Of course, use the Spirit as your guide to help fine tune and make any needed adjustments to pick the right songs for your Primary!

Along with the rotation of song selections, I use the other songs from the monthly list as wiggle songs, where there are songs that are a perfect fit for that! It’s a great way to add in even more of the songs in the year, and you can see how I did that with my singing time outlines, here, for an example!

Primary Song Selection Chart Key:

• Month: You’ll notice the first column is the Month. This is the specific month the song was selected from. However, I mix and match my songs throughout the year prior to the program.
  
  This isn’t necessarily the month we will work on this song. This post on how I plan my songs for the whole year can help explain this concept! Plus, also see an example singing time for how I add a few short activities each week!
  
• Song Title & Hymn Number: This lists the song name and where to find it in the next two columns. If there is a “-” dash symbol, that means it is not available in the Children’s Songbook or Hymn book. It may be available on LDS.org under the additional Primary songs or may be available for purchase for a nominal fee.
  
  The letter “H” used before a number is there to represent that song would be found in the Hymnal. All other numbers are specifically referencing the page number within the Children’s Songbook.
  
  Finally, if there was not a specific Christmas or Easter song, I have added a recommendation that suited my needs. Of course, you can adjust your song selections to fit your ward.
  
• Letter: The final column has a single letter next to some, but not all, of the songs. The letters correspond with song selections to use during the Primary Program (P), Easter (E), and Christmas (C).
  
  Your Primary may or may not be asked to sing for these 3 occasions throughout the year, but it’s a good idea to have something in mind in case you are asked! From my experience, the ward music leader or Bishopric tend to only give a couple of weeks notice.

New Testament Primary Song List

Jan	Come, Follow Me – Hymn *8 Singing Time Ideas for Come, Follow Me	H-116	P
Feb	Baptism *8 Singing Time Ideas for Baptism	100	P
Mar	I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus	78	P
Apr	Gethsemane	–	P
May	I Am a Child of God	2
Jun	Did Jesus Really Live Again?	64	E
July	I’ll Walk With You	140
Aug	I Will Follow God’s Plan	164	P
Sept	I Know That My Redeemer Lives	H-136	P
Oct	The Church of Jesus Christ	77
Nov	Search, Ponder and Pray	109	P
Dec	Choose the Right Way	160	P
	(Consider: Stars Were Gleaming)	37	C
	(Consider: Tell Me the Stories of Jesus) *9 Singing Time Ideas for Tell Me the Stories of Jesus	57	P
	(Consider If the Savior Stood Beside Me) *7 Singing Time Ideas for If the Savior Stood Beside Me	–	P
	(Consider Love Is Spoken Here)		P

Book of Mormon Primary Song List

Jan	The Iron Rod	H-274	P
Feb	Nephi’s Courage	120	P
Mar	Dare to Do Right	158	P
Apr	Easter Hosanna	68	E
May	Testimony	H-137	P
Jun	We’ll Bring the World His Truth *8 Singing Time Ideas for We’ll Bring the World His Truth	172	P
July	Faith	96	P
Aug	Follow the Prophet	110
Sept	Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus	36	C
Oct	Reverently, Quietly	26
Nov	Stand for the Right	159	P
Dec	I Will Be What I Believe	–	P

Doctrine & Covenants Primary Song List

Joseph Smith’s First Prayer *Or Praise to the Man, Hymn 27	H-26	P
The Priesthood Is Restored	89	P
When I Am Baptized *8 Singing Time Ideas for When I Am Baptized	103
I Want to Be a Missionary Now	168
When He Comes Again	82	P
Reverence is Love	31
I Feel My Savior’s Love	74	P
The Holy Ghost *8 Singing Time Ideas for The Holy Ghost	105	P
I Will Be Valiant	162	P
The Spirit of God	H-2	P
Families Can Be Together Forever	188	P
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing**	H-209	C
(**Or Consider: Picture a Christmas)	50	C
(Consider: On a Golden Springtime)	88	E
(Consider An Angel Came to Joseph Smith) *7 Singing Time Ideas for An Angel Came to Joseph Smith	86	P

Old Testament Primary Song List

Jan	I Know My Father Lives	5	P
Feb	Choose the Right	H-239	P
Mar	Love One Another	136
Apr	Keep the Commandments	146	P
May	Seek the Lord Early (Dec List)	108	P
Jun	A Child’s Prayer	12	P
July	I Love to See the Temple	95
Aug	Teach Me to Walk in the Light	177	P
Sept	I Will Walk with Jesus	–	P
Oct	I Hope They Call Me on a Mission	169
Nov	We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet	H-19	P
Dec	Away in a Manger	42	C
	He Sent His Son	34	E
	(Consider My Heavenly Father Loves Me) *7 Singing Time Ideas for My Heavenly Father Loves Me	228	P
	(Consider Our Time to Shine) *6 Singing Time Ideas for Our Time to Shine	–	P

Download the 4-Year
Primary Song Rotation
Suggested Song List

You are welcome to use this printable for your own planning and preparation as a resource. This printable shouldn’t take place of your own review of the annual song lists to determine what songs would be best for your Primary. It is simply another resource and starting point that may be helpful in planning for a 4-year span of time to keep variety in your song selections.

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Head over next to grab the printables to help give you a quick 4-year glance at all the Primary songs!