handclapping

In between, “Fuse” proffers compassionate advice in the gloomily majestic “When You Mess Up,” goes on a surreal European club-hopping chronicle in “No One Knows We’re Dancing” and makes a pinging, handclapping, gamelan-tinged plea for “something I can hold onto” in “Forever.”

Boys’ handclapping games are also more private, whereas girls will openly play jump rope games.

Chapter 9 introduced the play party game and cumulative songs, appropriate for older children, but there are many other types of older children’s game songs such as the Circle Game Songs, Handclapping songs, Jump rope songs, Counting out rhymes, Nursery rhymes, Chants, and Sea Chanteys.

The President came in; there was handclapping above us in the grand stand, and I handed the glasses to Brett.

“The Kop devoted its attentions to panegyrics,” wrote our man Eric Todd, “and the handclapping created the impression of millions of dried peas being dropped on a corrugated iron roof. As the players reached the Kop, they slowed down - I swear some of them bowed – a deserved tribute to a section of the local population which, if it did but know it, rode sublime upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy. Ee, ay, alley-oh, Liverpool are the champs.”