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You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] jesterraiin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee 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.”

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 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.

[–] jesterraiin@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 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”

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 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

[–] FelipeFelop@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

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