Music Stuck In My Head

[debka_notion]

For the last few days, I've had a song I know vaguely from dancing stuck in my head. This is pretty par for the course- there's almost always some piece of music running through my head. The song is a little obnoxious: it's aimed at kids, and is mostly a choir of kids singing the Hebrew Alphabet with this catchy tune (it Is, or at least Was, nice to have a change from the usual aleph-bet song, at least). But it's starting to get on my nerves. And anyways, it feels a little silly to walk around singing the Hebrew alphabet.

On the other hand, one of the reasons the song sticks in my head so strongly is a really sweet memory of watching a good friend (then 15) and a then 9ish year old friend of his dancing the thing. Just a very cute memory: Steve was in one of those gangy 15 year old stages but Very, very cheerful and friendly, and the little kid was very small for his age and really felt like Steve was his hero/role-model in many ways, and the whole thing was quite charming. Hard to believe said "little kid" is now 13 or 14.

Comments

[carnilius.livejournal.com]

Oh! Teach me! I have the song (I believe), but don't know the dance. It goes too fast for me and I don't know the alphabet, so I end up making up a scrambled alphabet when I try to sing it.

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

I don't really know the dance either- I've only seen it twice, although a classmate who's taught kids has described the dance for me, and it's simple enough that I almost got to from that. It's in gender-irrelevant couples arranged in lines (columns I guess), 8 slides and a clap one way, then the opposite way. THen she said two kicks, shake partner's opposite hands (shake right, keep on holding, then shake left), then I think just spin around eachother or something.

It is fast- but it's a reasonable way to learn the alphabet in order, if you've learned the letter names already and start it looking at a chart or something.

[carnilius.livejournal.com]

*sings* "...chet tet gimel daled reish vav nun, pei, vesamech, achar kach gimel..."

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Ahh- I'll give another listen to make sure I have the conjunctions in the right places, and shall give you lyrics, which will teach you your alphabet in order.