11 Better Songs With A 20 Second Chorus

With all this hand scrubbing going on, the advice is that you wash your hands for 20 seconds but you need some sort of timer to know when you've reached that 20-second threshold and the NHS recommended song is Happy Birthday sang twice.
The British Government did make a half-hearted attempt to make the 'official' hand washing song 'God Save The Queen' but that didn't last very long but there are better well known songs that come in with a 20-second choruses, just don't skimp on the instrumental parts or the long held notes.

Ironic by Alanis Morrisette
It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid 
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought, it figures

Copacabana by Barry Manilow
At the copa, Copacabana
The hottest spot north of Havana
Here at the copa, Copacabana
Music and passion were always the fashion At the copa
Don't fall in love

Basketcase by Green Day
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid?
Or am I just stoned

You Could Be Mine by Guns N Roses
Because you could be mine
But you're way out of line
With your bitch slap rappin'
And your cocaine tongue
You get nuthin' done
I said you could be mine

Kiss by Prince
You don't have to be rich to be my girl
You don't have to be cool to rule my world
Ain't no particular sign i'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your Kiss

Greased Lightning by Grease
Go grease lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
Go grease lightning you're coasting through the heat lap trial
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go

Whats Love Got To Do With It by Tina Turner
What's love got to do, got to do with it
What's love but a second hand emotion
What's love got to do, got to do with it
Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken

Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all with the eye of the tiger

Beat It by Michael Jackson
Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin' how funky and strong is your fight
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right
Just beat it, beat it x4

Africa by Toto
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

Hotel California by The Eagles
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face.
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (any time of year) you can find it here  

Special Guest Blogger: Margaret Thatcher

My Prime Ministerial time began and ended with a recession but there was a brief period in the middle where the nation was prosperous for a few weeks.
The rest of the time i cut benefits for the disabled, the elderly and the poor but during times of national hardship, i wanted to set an example by tightening our national belt but i didn't want the civilians to think the Conservatives Party was out of touch.
When people told me it was a disgrace that ordinary people are starving due to our policies we agreed that we had to make some small gesture to the poor and old and we did, and we used the middle finger of both hands to do it.
My Government was ahead of the curve when it came to Green policies, we tried to close down most of our industries for years and we got our country back on its feet, mainly due to the train and bus drivers walking out, the motorways grinding to a standstill and all the taxis being booked up.
My idea of a classless society was on track, we closed most of the schools and i also pushed for more nuclear power stations and i knew they were safe as we had been testing them on all the children around Sellafield for years.
Although there is that famous picture of me being forced to leave Downing Street in the back of a taxi as our popularity slumped due to the poll tax, there was many MPs who thought that i should stay on that, admittedly it was the MPs of the Labour Party.
When i died there was street parties and so many people said they wanted to dance on my grave that it was considered burying me under a Disco but my legacy lives on decades after i left power, just look at your ridiculously high utility bills from the companies i privatised and think of me.

Boris Wrong & Dangerous Covid-19 Strategy

The British Government have not played a blinder when it comes to dealing with the Coronavirus outbreak.
Boris Johnson seems to have been behind the curve at every step and his advice has been to wash your hands more which then become wash your hands more, stay at home if you have a cough or temperature and if you are elderly, avoid going on cruises.
While everyone else around the World was closing schools and stopping sports events, he came on television to announce he wouldn't be doing that and gave a detailed explanation of why only for slip out a message that sporting events were being postponed two hours later.
The British Government's strategy appeared to staggeringly different to everyone elses, opting for 'herd immunisation' which is when a large percentage of a population have become infected and therefore become immune, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune although Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, has said that in order to be successful 60%-70% of the population must catch the disease, and with a Great British population of 67 million, that's between 40.2m and 46.9m infected and with a Covic-19 fatality rate of approximately 3%, that's 1.2m to 1.4m deaths.
Scientists and Medical people are queuing up to tell the Government to change their thinking which will 'risk many more lives than necessary' such as the Professor of emerging infectious disease, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization who has called it 'wrong and dangerous'.
The plan to let tens of millions get infected, let a sizeable portion of those with them die rather than widespread testing, tracking down the contacts of every case and isolating them as many other countries in Asia and Europe have chosen to do is a mystery but as bad as we think we got it with Boris Johnson, we can only thank our lucky stars we don't have Donald Trump co-ordinating things, he called it a hoax and his initial advice was to be calm and it’ll go away.

Sorry Bernie But Thanks For The Bulb

Looking at the voting for the Democrat candidate to take on Donald Trump it is looking as it's Joe Biden who is going to get the nod over Bernie Sanders which is a shame because i have been somehow been with the Sanders campaign since the beginning after getting onto their email list.
I have been getting regular daily updates from the Campaign Manager, Faiz Shakir, for months and each email has a big CONTRIBUTE button at the bottom for me to send $2.70 although it got a bit confusing as each email over the course of the past few months has said that this is the most important time for contributions and they are counting on me to click the big blue button. I never.
I did sort of have Bernie to thank though for fixing the light outside my garage as one email said what can they do for me and i cheekily replied contact the Council and get them to put in a new bulb and about two weeks later it was done so in my mind, it was thanks to Bernie but i actually know it was just my light bulbs turn to be replaced by some Council Worker with a step ladder.
The thing about Bernie Sanders is that he came out as a Socialist which in the mind of older and less savvy Americans is the same as Communist and their minds go straight to the USSR and Joe Stalin or China's Chairman Mao, the more switched on younger ones seem to have a clue though which is encouraging.
As for Biden versus Trump, i don't know much about Biden or his policies but i am hearing him being described as 'a safe pair of hands' and the Politco website has a quick run down of his major policy standpoints which all seem pretty standard fare.
In every poll where it is Trump versus Biden, Biden triumphs so it seems Trump's time may well be coming to and end and America may be getting a grown up back in the White House which is good for America i guess but Socialism's time in America has not come just yet as voters sticks with the old, white men but hopes are Socialists hopes are apparently high for Ms Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the future.
Still, sorry to see you go Bernie but thanks for the light bulb, i appreciate it.

Special Guest Blogger: King George V

I had all sorts going on during my reign, most significantly the First World War which was fought between me and my cousins, Wilhelm of Germany and Nicholas II of Russia.
I changed the name of the Royal family from the very Germanic sounding Saxe-Coburg to Windsor like the castle but another big invention in my time was radio broadcasts.
I was never really comfortable being around common people but when the wireless came around it was just those common people on radio all the time, commoners at work, on holiday and generally whinging about the hardships of being poor and i said who bloody cares, we need some royals on this box thing which is why i came up with the idea of a Christmas address to the nation to bring a bit of glamour to their tawdry lives.
Commoners were completely out of touch with what royal people thought and although admittedly they they do a very good for the tourist industry like driving buses and things like that, i wouldn't say that was a proper job, i never saw one common person open a hospital or sit for a portrait but i was a traditionalist and they were part of our great heritage so why not give them a glimpse of the Royals on the wireless once a year.
My family all said we wouldn't be a commoner if they gave us all the money in the world, which they did but we still wouldn't, i was much happier collecting stamps and roaming the World shooting things, i once shot 1000 pheasants in six hours.
My death came about from a wartime wound, not a wound i received in the war but i was thrown from my horse while out riding while the war was going on and i died weeks later, my doctor giving me an injection that night to hastened my death so that my death at 11:55 p.m. could be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper rather than the less appropriate commoners evening journals, they knew me so well.

Special Guest Blogger: Alfred the Great

One way to keep your money safe from invading Vikings is to dig a great big hole and bury it but another way is to fight them off which is exactly what i did. 
In my lifetime i revolutionised government and taxation, reformed the legal system, wrote books while having spectacular military successes against the Viking hordes and building the  foundations of a new country but it seems most people remember me for burning some cakes.
The story of my life should be about all the great things i did, it is my name after all, but rather than the story of how i defeated the Danes and created a new country, i'm the cake guy.
The story is that i was hiding out from the Vikings in an old woman's cottage after she took pity on me thinking i was a random homeless guy and she told me to keep an eye on some cakes that she was cooking while she went off to do old ladies things but i forgot as i was playing with a candle clock so when she came home and saw the smoke billowing from the cooker, she started battering me with a broom and i couldn't tell her that she was beating the King because it would have blown my cover.
I eventually defeated most of the Vikings and lived to a ripe old age of 50 and introduced the concept of weirgild which is where a victim of violence was compensated by their attacker depending on which part of the body the attacker lopped off so lose an eye, tongue, hand, or foot would cost 66 shillings, the nose 60 shillings, a thumb or ear was worth 30 shillings and a toe 20 shillings but if the attacker could not or refused to pay the wergild, the injured family was given rights to kill a member of the culprits family of similar rank and status.
My story doesn't end with my death though, i was buried and dug up three times and then they lost my bones which is most upsetting, i need a lie down and a nice cup of tea, you can forget the slice of cake though.

Special Guest Blogger: Judy Garland

People did say that i was difficult person to work with but as i was off my face on barbiturates and amphetamines most of the time so what did they expect.
I am probably best known for my role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and that was the highlight before the nervous breakdowns, suicide attempts and bizarre behaviour on set which led to the downfall of my Hollywood movie career.
I was cast to appear in the movie of the Valley of the Dolls but on the set i refused to come out of my dressing room for two days, then lost the caps to my front teeth on the third day they pushed a note under the door to tell me that that they were firing me.
Being a druggie isn't cheap and i soon faced a massive drugs bill and nobody trusting me to not turn up on a film set and be a massive pain in the ass put a hole in my finances so i then turned to singing and performed concerts almost non-stop through 1967 but still had to sell my home when the IRS came knocking with a massive tax bill.
In the final of years of her life, i began showing up late to concerts, cancelling them at the last minute or appearing inebriated on stage, one night i turned up 35 minutes late, sang three songs and then fell asleep.
At age 47 i was found dead in the bathroom with my death caused by what the autopsy called 'an accidental self-administered overdose of barbiturates' so in many ways Elvis's career mirrored that of mine, we both acted and sang, both had drug addictions and were both found dead in the toilet while in our 40s.

Special Guest Blogger: Oscar Wilde

I was known for having a love of the sexual double entendre but more famous for being both gay and as horny as a Viking's helmet stand, i even spent time in prison charged with indecency and sentenced to two years, i obviously rubbed someone up the wrong way as i was always known to bend over backwards to accommodate anyone.
Two years is a long time but i was in prison surrounded by other big, sweaty men and so i thought that the bottom line was that i just have to take it lying down however hard it was to swallow.
I did my time and came out to pick up my life of fame and fortune and i did my time thanks to the big tip that my cell mate offered me.
True him telling me stuff would have helped also but there you go.
I took it easy in my later years, i kept up the double entendre's so if i saw one coming i would still slip it in but my promiscuous past of debauchery caught up with me and i died of meningitis as a direct result of syphilis.
It is said that dying of syphilis in the Victorian era wasn't that unusual, an estimated 25 percent of Victorian men had it at the time although i probably gave it to that 25 percent in the first place.
After my release from prison i left immediately for France and never to returned to Britain but i was awarded for making a significant contributions in the field of writing, mostly for the picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
In 2017, i was pardoned for committing homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences which was a bit crap considering that i had died 117 years previously so make of that what you will, as i said to my cell mate that first night, i know it's hard but I'll leave it in your hands..ooer.

Special Guest Blogger: King Athelstan

Historians say that i inherited the throne after my 22 year old brothers Elfweard's suspiciously short reign, he was ruler for a month and then drowned in an unfortunate swimming related accident.
I did pass a law to spare children under 15 from the death penalty but as i only ruled Wessex which is in the south of England, the Danes who ran the North carried on doing what Danes did but it never stopped me calling myself the Emperor of Britain and telling everyone that i owned a piece of the true cross and the actual lance that pierced Jesus.
I did finally take the North off the Vikings and even invaded Scotland but the Scots didn't like that and preferred the Vikings so invaded England and took back the land i nicked from them in the first place so all a bit of a waste of time really.
Something i was famous for was calling dignitaries to me for frivolous reasons, i especially enjoyed summoning the Welsh Lords and after days of travelling to meet me, saying 'It's okay, don't worry' which ticked them off no end.
Something which did concern me was a rise in robbery so i introduced a law prescribing harsh penalties, including the death penalty for anyone over twelve years old caught in the act of stealing goods worth more than eight pence but what happened was people would still get robbed but anything over eight pence, they would give the change back to the victim.
With my rule wedged between my grandfather Alfred the Great and Harold 'One in the eye' Godwinson, us Anglo Saxons Kings who ruled between them tend to be rather forgotten but my toughness on all forms of robbery never really had any effect, sometime around the 16th Century someone nicked my bones and the piece of true cross i was buried with.

Special Guest Blogger: Alexander Graham Bell

There are some ridiculous accusations that although i am most famous for inventing the telephone, i didn't invent it at all.
I want to use this space given to me by Lucy to quash the false rumours that i stole the idea from an Italian named Antonio Meucci.
Firstly my invention was called the Telephone, his was called the Teletrofono so not even close.
His patent ran out in 1874, due to failing to send in the $10 necessary to renew his teletrofono patent, because he was sick and poor and Italian and it was a full two years later that i registered my own telephone patent.
Laughably Meucci attempted to sue me but when he tried to retrieve the original sketches and plans from the Western Union lab that he sent them to as proof he came up with the idea first, the records quite amazingly were nowhere to be found which makes me think he never had them in the first place and i should know because i worked at the very Western Union lab where Meucci swore he sent his original sketches.
Also both my wife and my mother were stone deaf so why would i even need to nick his phone idea? Who the hell was i going to call?
Meucci died penniless and unknown while when i popped my clogs i was in the history books as the inventor of the Telephone which i absolutely, definitely did invent.