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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wtf are you talking about? There's only one birthday song.

[–] kostel_thecreed 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know two. One in my native tongue, and one in english.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know 4. Two in my native tongue, one in Danish, and one in English.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Except it is not copyrighted anynore

From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

The music and lyrics are in the public domain in the European Union and the United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. A U.S. federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner and Chappell's copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have no idea what you're talking about.

There's only one brithday song and it goes like this: Awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard, ok, can we just, uh, stop? Ok, cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There's also "This is your birthday song. It isn't very long. Hey!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s another one used when the copyrighted one was still copyrighted.

“haa-py, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s also the “It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday!” chant that people do. Not The Birthday Song, but a birthday song.

Edit: after researching it, I guess it’s 50 Cent, I’d always heard it, but never knew the source:

https://youtu.be/cA4SFSUJXyI

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know three in English so there must be more in other languages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Happy birthday to you
You belong in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What day is today?

It's Nibbler's birthday!

What a day for a birthday!

Let's all have some cake!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And you smell like one too!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I know 3, in different languages.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're the birthday
You're the birthday
You're the birthday
Boy or girl!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're not alone. This was also my number two.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

*If you are a monolinguist native English speaker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I can do 4. Do I win something?

Just in case:

Happy Birthday (obviously) Birthday (The Beatles) Feliz, feliz en tu día (Los payasos de la tele) Las Mañanitas (traditional Mexican song)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I know at least 4. This post is ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sin and sorrow from the air People dying everywhere Happy birthday Happy birthday

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh. The birthday dirge. Classy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Happy Birthday to you//Happy Birthday to you//Happy Birthday dear \ //Happy Birthday to you!

Lisa, it's your birthday//Happy birthday, Lisa//Lisa, it's your birthday//Happy birthday, Lisa.

This tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For anybody who would like to have a 3rd song, this one is the best of them all.

Happy birthday, Dick!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is incredible

edit: I'm stunned to find this seems to have been created with no humor intended.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, hey, it’s your birthday Hey hey it’s your day It’s not Monday It’s not Tuesday It’s not Wednesday It’s not Thursday It’s not Friday It’s not Saturday It’s not Sunday It’s your birthday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's more than 1? I only know 1. Now I feel ripped off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My gift to anyone celebrating a birthday is to not sing. There's probably other gifts. but trust me. Insisting I sing... you'll regret it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/TdIRrmNN_CQ

https://piped.video/cZH_jDIjWV4

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I kniw 4 A)English B)Hindi 3)French 4)Arabic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There’s also the classic Birthday Dethday by Dethklok

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s time to celebrate your birthday It happens every year We’ll eat a lot of broccoli And drink a lot of beer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=CzoA-xFU2j8

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

A birthday means you're one year closer to your death. The music that should be played is "The Last Post".