The lyrics of the song "Happy Clapping Song" are as follows:

If you feel happy, clap your hands

If you feel happy, clap your hands

If you feel happy, clap your hands quickly

Look, everyone claps their hands together

If you feel happy, you stamp your feet

If you feel happy, you Stamp your feet

If you feel happy, stamp your feet quickly

Look at everyone stomping their feet together

If you feel happy, pat your shoulders

If you feel happy, just pat the shoulder

If you feel happy, pat the shoulder quickly

Look, everyone pats the shoulder together

"Happy Clap Song", also known as "Clap Your Hands If You Are Happy", is a popular Spanish children's song. The tune of the song is similar to "Molodejnaya" from the 1938 Soviet musical film "Volga-Volga" and may have been inspired by it or inspired the song. Composer unknown.

The social impact of "Happy Clapping Song"

Because this song is so influential in Japan, it is often heard on trains and at baseball and football games. In Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Sakamoto Kyuu is very close, it is used as the departure melody of Kasama Station for Lines 3 to 5 at Tomobe Station, Line 1 at Iwama Station, and Lines 2 and 3.

J League Saitama football derby, Urawa Red Diamonds fans will sing before the game, "There is only Urawa team in Saitama, only Urawa team in Saitama, as long as Saitama has Urawa, so there is no Omiya team." , to ridicule the palace squirrel. It adopts the rhythm of "Happy Clapping Song".

This song is played when the opposing pitcher quits mid-inning at a home game of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters. Japan's Asahi Beer and other advertisements have used this song as background music. However, they will always be replaced with advertising slogans as lyrics. Part of the melody of the North Korean military song "Victory Parade" was taken from this song.