hand-washing songs (20 seconds of music)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-03-03/coronavirus-hand-washing-20-seconds-happy-birthday-10-songs

[q]As the coronavirus spreads throughout the country, health officials say handwashing is one of the best ways people can protect themselves. After using the bathroom, touching your face or sneezing and before eating, scrub with soap and water for 20 seconds — or about the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends.

“There are some studies that have shown us that the amount of microbes on your hands is reduced more when you wash your hands for longer,” says Janet Baseman, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. The detergent in soap removes microbes from your hands, and the longer you scrub the more microbes it can remove, she says.

But if the coronavirus sticks around for a while (as it’s expected to), and “Happy Birthday” becomes an irritable earworm rather a helpful handwashing tune, try mixing it up.[/b]

The article then suggests ten songs with singable (or hummable) choruses that last for 20 seconds. Ten is not enough.

I guess Napalm Death’s ‘You Suffer’ doesn’t quite cut it.

Well, you could sing (?) that ten or twenty times in a row, but you'd better make sure no one else is in earshot of the sink.

Total Toilet Duck

You could sing "kiiiiiii for any occasion" three or four times.

This x2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBifkGjrx4

Total Toilet Duck

Perfect. And I can try and learn lyrics in all languages.

"Her Majesty" if you leave off the last "Someday I'm going to make her mine."

The Knack "My Corona" verse up to "My-y-y-y-y WOOOO!"

Ooh, my little sickly one
Sickly one
Looks like you’ve contracted some of
MY CORONA
Ooh, your life will soon be done
Soon be done
When you kick the bucket from
MY CORONA

— Patrick Barry (SpaceViking/PapayaBoat) (@SpaceVikingPB) March 3, 2020

this one?

i can help! here is a partial list of songs in my library that are exactly 20 seconds long

euros childs - gingerbread house explosion #1
nick didkovsky - monkey and determination
bbc radiphonic workshop - radio stoke-on-trent (1)
ebu gogo - fast man/hero person
the scruffs - afterlife
yasuaki fujita - dr. wily stage map (mega man 3)
secret chiefs 3 - nova IHVH
girolamo frescobaldi - kirie (gregoriano)

the next time you are washing your hands, hum any of these instantly memorable ditties while you wash in order to ward off disease!

(my favorite of these, for the record, is "gingerhead house explosion #1")

any verse from So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds, surely, giving an extra second for safety

Guided by Voices - Hit

One for the ironic titles thread

Ring a' ring o' roses

Twice, out loud when in public.

As a kid, singing the entirety of Weird Al's Harvey the Wonder Hamster, musical intro included, did the trick for waiting for 20 seconds.

Thing is if you wash your hands properly the required steps should take about 20 secs without needing a count

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/9329590/ariana-grande-hand-washing-meme-reaction

Does the 20 seconds include rinsing and drying? I doubt it, and that's where they get you. Rinsing/drying is at least another 20 seconds, so we're now looking at a 40 second effort. And that's a deal-breaker to most people. There's a reason all those Ron-Co products retailed for x payments of $19.99. 'Cos once you get over the number 20, people are all like "hey"!

Guided by Voices - Hit

Ha, I was gonna say "Cigarette Tricks".

With "Hit" you have to sing the riff at the beginning for it to be truly effective. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-vRhfjaI8

I’ve been singing Wire’s Field Day for the Sunday’s.

lol I was looking at my music and there are soooooo many Janet Jackson interludes that fit.

Coming back into this thread five hours later to apologize for mentally conflating "Gold Hick" and "Hit".

I don't know, but I brush my teeth to "Turkey in the Straw".

I’ve always used the intro to soundgarden’s “pretty noose” as a vague 30 second timer

I mean the vietnamese government literally produced this https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51792971

This may prove useful

https://washyourlyrics.com/

Our nature does not change by will
In the winter, 'round the ruined mill
The creek is lying flat and still
It is water, though it's frozen

= just over 20 seconds

Echo & the Bunnymen - Do It Clean

I've got a handful of this
What do I do with it?
I've got a barrel of this
What do I do with it?
I do it clean, I do it clean
Do it clean, do it clean
Know what I mean
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what I mean, I mean
Where am I going
Where have I been
Where are you going
Where have you been
I've been here, I've been there
I've been here, there, everywhere
Here there nowhere
Iszy bitzy witzy itzy everywhere
I've been here and I've been there
I'm clean
I had a handful of this
What did I do with it?
I had a barrel of this
What did I do with it?
I did it clean, I did it clean
Do it clean, do it clean
Know what I mean?
Do it clean, do it clean
I know what I mean

The second chorus of Daniel Johnston's "Running Water" with the repeated line at the end is just about 20 seconds:

running water
running water
what are you running from?
you always seem to be on the run
you always seem to be on the run

I was about to create a Wash Your Lyrics graphic for "Total Toilet Protection", but the lyrics database doesn't have it. :(

How did my toilet get so clean?
It's easy, Duck's on my team

dammit can't remember all of it right now

Bye germs, bye worries

Space... the final frontier... these are the voyages of the starship enterprise. It's 5 year mission... to explore strange new worlds... to seek out new life and new civilizations... to boldly go where no man has gone before! OoooOooooOooOooOooOooOoo!

You actually don't need to add the OoooOooo part if you pace it just like shatner, but I can't help myself.

Thanks to my wife: https://www.dropbox.com/s/llkd8m6pugm9xpv/Quack.png

Try this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/llkd8m6pugm9xpv/Quack.png

https://previews.dropbox.com/p/thumb/AAvRQrunJj6btrQsqRyWOjV7NdT7KnzI-d9NmCYVoCp7TAnNMMHDlCMS659nMKrFkMsmMIqkNxI8lPpiNggJdi3c9lLJ9CH8ETurZRVzSBa-6hdQ8CFCimybG2USGdXvqfXT8tdTQpG3LEAE98es0XsROzRU_qbPFySK-cQe7ygZxF66-XcSutY29y8fu4wHzyfTyzg0H-E9LTi891I3sZvW7AeX3sGGioPERVKOm1b-TgJWqcr4BXMN3ZHT7jbDP5c-ls7bZyh96WBfFCcfWJINvIRPfijI6Y4auTeswsDCoyRJHBGTfC-ncRkYSzhesSzQ9BqLzc9TTCCWmco7IIf8/p.png

Not a song but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fREu-HCIEEg