I have no idea why a song our vocal music class sang frequently in the early years of grade school would lodge itself in my mind tonight. It did, though, and it's that paragon of subtlety and nuance, "Clap Your Hands Together."
Of course, I'm being sarcastic about the tune's subtlety and nuance. If you also sang it in grade school, you know the tune. Everything's right there on the surface. Kids sing about clapping their hands together, throw in some "la, la, la, la, la, la, la"s, and that's it. They learn to clap along in rhythm--and recall the tune as an earworm four decades later.
