Website Pairs Hand-Washing Tips With Lyrics From Your Favorite Song

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Even coronavirus can be funny. Just ask the internet.

A teenage developer from the UK created a tool that generates hand-washing instructions accompanied by the song of your choice.

Using the National Health Service’s how-to poster and Genius’s library of lyrics, 17-year-old William Gibson built your next digital distraction.

So happy everyone is enjoying Wash Your Lyrics! Came up with the idea after seeing someone create a @100gecs poster on Saturday night and I wanted to create by own but I'm too lazy to use Photoshop 🥴

— William (@neoncloth) March 9, 2020

Type a song and artist into WashYourLyrics.com, and the site automatically produces a chart featuring the first verse of classic titles like “All Star” by Smash Mouth, “Yesterday” from The Beatles, or “Lose Yourself” by Eminem.

(My first instinct was to enter “Copacabana” by Barry Manilow.)

Wash your hands to ‘Copacabana’ (via WashYourLyrics.com)

Washing your hands regularly is the best—and easiest—way to protect yourself and others against the spread of COVID-19.

As a rule of thumb, you should scrub for at least 20 seconds: the time it takes to sing the “Happy Birthday” song twice in a row.

But belting “Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!” to yourself in the mirror of a public restroom is weird and, frankly, maddening.

The internet has, of course, provided several alternatives, including the chorus of “Landslide” (Fleetwood Mac), “Love On Top” (Beyonce), “Raspberry Beret” (Prince), “Jolene” (Dolly Parton), “Africa” (Toto), and “Truth Hurts” (Lizzo).

Or, if you paid enough attention in high school English, try reciting Lady Macbeth’s “Out, damned spot!” monologue.

For some real inspiration, though, you can download and print the posters generated by Gibson’s site to hang above sinks at home or in the office. (Your colleagues would surely pay more attention to personal hygiene if they were singing Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” in their head.)

To be fair, most of the verses quoted on WashYourLyrics.com—if sung in time, as they were written and recorded—will far exceed the recommended 20 seconds.

But a little extra scrubbing never hurt anyone.

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