Happy Clapping Song - Little Belle Ensemble
Words: American Traditional Folk Song ? Song: American Traditional Folk Song
If you feel happy, clap your hands ? If you're happy, clap your hands
If you're happy, clap your hands, yo ? Look at all the people clapping their hands together
If you feel happy, stomp your feet ? If you feel happy, stomp your feet
If you feel happy, stomp your feet, yo? Look at all the people stomping their feet together
If you feel happy, clap your shoulders ? If you're happy, clap your shoulders
If you're happy, clap your shoulders, yo? Look at all the people patting their shoulders together
If you feel happy, clap your hands ? If you're happy, clap your hands
If you're happy, clap your hands, yo? Look at all the people clapping their hands together
If you feel happy, stomp your feet ? If you feel happy, stomp your feet
If you feel happy, stomp your feet, yo? Look at everyone stomping their feet together
If you're happy, clap your shoulders ? If you're happy, clap your shoulders
If you're happy, clap your shoulders, yo? Look at that everybody clapping together
Expanded Information
The Happy Clapping Song, also known as "If you're happy, clap your hands", is a popular Spanish children's song. The tune is similar to the interlude "Molodejnaya" from the 1938 Soviet musical film Volga Volga, and may have inspired or informed the song. The author of the song is unknown.
The song, which is widely sung and influential in Japan, is titled "幸せなら手をたたこう". Composed in 1964, the lyrics were written by Toshihito Kimura, a professor at the Department of Human Sciences at Waseda University, and rearranged by Takao Imaizumi, and sung throughout Japan by Japanese singer Sakamoto Kudo.
The English lyrics were written in 1971 and copyrighted by Portuguese-American composer Joe Raposo. Joe Raposo.