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Certain, y'all tin sing "Happy Birthday" twice to time your mitt-washing — but one hand-washer recommends a twenty-second excerpt from Beyoncé's "Love on Meridian." Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella hide caption

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Sure, you lot tin can sing "Happy Birthday" twice to time your hand-washing — but i hand-washer recommends a 20-second extract from Beyoncé's "Love on Top."

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Yes, washing your hands provides excellent protection against coronavirus (and other pathogens).

Merely yous exercise need to scrub with lather for xx seconds to remove those pathogens. That's what the Centers for Illness Control, the World Health Organization and many manus-washing experts recommend.

Twenty seconds is a long fourth dimension when yous're standing at a sink. The common advice is to wash as long as it takes to sing the "Happy Altogether" song twice or the ABC song. If you lot don't rocket through the lyrics, you should get about xx seconds of scrub time.

Nonetheless after you've sung "Happy Birthday," oh, say, 337 times in one twenty-four hour period, possibly you might want some alternatives. Nosotros asked our readers what they're singing (or proverb). Dozens chimed in. Here are some of their responses.

"Personally I e'er sing Beyonce's "Dear on Top" chorus – who doesn't demand a piffling more Queen Bey in their life?" writes public librarian Molly Price. Her department at the Ashe Canton Public Library, Adult Services, created a series of social media posts and posters (to hang in bathrooms) that encourage handwashing and offer musical options. She says the most popular mail features Dolly Parton and the chorus to "Jolene," which should take you to the twenty 2d mark:

"Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, I'm begging of you delight don't take my human. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene. Please don't have him just because y'all tin can."

Triage nurse Phillip Flavin goes for a line from Queen three times: "We will, we volition rock you (rock you)." Sometimes, he says, he changes it to "We will, we volition launder you."

For those whose gaze turns heavenward, Jody Brkich suggests "Twinkle, twinkle fiddling star" twice. Or possibly adding 1 of the obscure verses that offer a glimmer of hope: "When the blazing lord's day is gone, when he nothing shines upon, then yous bear witness your picayune light, twinkle, twinkle, all the dark."

It'due south hard to resist this "Twinkle" rewrite submitted by Erika Perzan: "Twinkle, twinkle little star. Look how make clean my ii hands are. Around my wrists and between my thumbs, lace my fingers, I'g almost done. Twinkle, twinkle little star. Look how clean my 2 hands are!"

Preschool director Annely Carver wrote a rap:

Corona, Corona,

Don't phone call me on your phona.

I'm washing, I'1000 cleansing

In that location's no mode y'all are messing

With me-with me!

I'm salubrious as can exist!!

Corona, Corona

Stay-abroad-from-me!!!

Lugarda Cappetta suggests humming the wordless final Jeopardy theme song, which is 30 seconds only actually, ten more than seconds can't hurt!

Fans of Backstreet Boys, similar Karina Calderon, are opting for: Shape of My Heart:

"Looking back on the things I've done. I was trying to be someone. I played my role, kept you lot in the dark. Now allow me show y'all the shape of my centre."

D.L. Preece says that kids might savor a round (actually 2) of "Row, row, row your boat." And maybe yous'll add a 3rd round of "row, row" and devote it to "scratching my palms" to dislodge pathogens under so ails. Sherry Kohn agrees with this song choice, which she learned about as a nursing student at Columbia University.

The late, great Prince gets a shout-out from Lisa Radov: "Raspberry Beret. She wore a raspberry beret, the kind that you become at a secondhand shop. Raspberry beret, and if it was warm she wouldn't article of clothing much more. Raspberry beret. I think I love her."

For uplift, Linda Gabriel, an occupational therapist, sings the first verse of "This Little Light of Mine." "It helps me focus on feeling positive through the day," she writes.

Singing isn't the but solution. Susan Hollier suggests reciting the Lord'south Prayer twice.

And if you lot'd like to convert a personal favorite song into a hand-washing accompaniment, try this hand-washing lyrics generator. Type in the vocal and artist and if it'due south in the database, you lot'll go a serial of hand-washing steps with lyrics to become forth with each step. I tried one of my all-time favorites, "Respect," as sung by Aretha Franklin, and can't wait to start washing.

Merely maybe I volition change up the lyrics a niggling. The moving-picture show of a person putting hands nether a spigot is printed over the opening line from "Respect" — "What y'all want, baby I got information technology." Simply it'south more similar, "What yous got, baby I want it!"

Then again, peradventure music isn't essential. The hamster in the video beneath seems like a highly motivated scrubber.

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Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/17/814221111/my-hand-washing-song-readers-offer-lyrics-for-a-20-second-scrub

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