Sing if you're glad...

[shewhomust]

Wednesday's pub quiz included a round about happy songs: here it is, if you are interested. Our team managed four out of five, of which two answers were solo contributions from the Professor of Theology. I didn't know any of them, but, as I told the Quizmaster, I could think of several happy songs he hadn't included. ("The Turtles?" he asked, but that hadn't been one of them.) By the time I emerged from the shower the next morning I had a full set of five:

There's no time to cry, happy, happy...

ought to be a straightforwardly happy song, but the video reveals a certain ambivalence, and perhaps that's why this was once of the first songs I thought of.

And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy ...

You made me so very happy...

On second thoughts...

There's every justification for including Ken Dodd's Happiness on this list, and if I were compiling a nicely varied set of quiz questions that's what I'd do. But since this is just for enjoyment, I'll substitute something I actually enjoy: There is really nothing else I'd rather do, 'cos I'm happy...

The first "happy song" I thought of:

And I won't feel bad till the whisky is gone...

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Comments

[boybear]

Since I will always attempt to entirely fill any list of songs with the Increds, add "Dust be Diamonds" - "Dust be diamonds, water be wine, happy happy happy all the time..".

Girlbear has different loyalties and offers "Shiny Happy People".

[shewhomust]

I was aiming for things with 'happy' in the title, though 'Dust be Diamonds' is otherwise a good fit.

That's 'Shiny Happy People' right there at the top of the list.