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27 Mar 10 - 08:35 PM (#2873598) Subject: Happy Birthday Song From: Zany Mouse A few years ago at the Four Fools Festival I heard a group sing a really good happy birthday song. Sadly I can't remember any of the lyris or tune but the gist of the song was everything that can/does go wrong with life. Highly amusing song! Does anyone recognise this? Rhiannon |
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28 Mar 10 - 06:56 AM (#2873801) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: Micca Rhianon you dont by any chance mean the one that uses the Volga Boatmen tune? The way I heard it sung by assorted Mudcatters lead by Tom, Judy and Hannah Goddard at last years Getaway was "Happy Birthday, Ug (this was more a grunt than Ug) Happy birthday Ug Gloom and despondancy are all around you Happy Birthday, Ug Happy Birthday, Ug there were acoupla other verses in the same vein and the final verse "Happy Birthday, Ug Happy Birthday, Ug may the candles on your cake burn like cities in your wake Happy Birthday, Ug Happy Birthday, Ug |
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28 Mar 10 - 07:24 AM (#2873814) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: Carol There's also the parody version of favourite things, but I suppose that's more about getting older!! |
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30 Mar 10 - 03:29 PM (#2875871) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: Zany Mouse Nope, Micca, that's not the one, and I don't think it was to the tune of of Favourite Things either. Thanks anyway but back to the drawing board. Rhiannon |
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31 Mar 10 - 08:26 AM (#2876403) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: clueless don I am interested in finding verses to the Happy Birthday to the tune of the Volga Boatman song. Following onto Micca's 28 Mar 10 - 06:56 AM message, above: Happy Birthday (uhn!) Happy Birthday (uhn!) Gloom and doom and dark despair People dying everywhere Happy Birthday (uhn!) Happy Birthday (uhn!) additional verses: When you reach the age you are your demise cannot be far May the candles on your cake burn like cities in your wake Sometimes the line after the verse is sung as "On your Birthday" rather than "Happy Birthday". Of course, Micca had already given a couple of those verses. Does anybody have any more verses? Also, does anyone have more verses to the Birthday song that goes Why was he born so beautiful? Why was he born, at all? He's no bloody use to anyone. He's no bloody usssssssse, at all! Don |
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31 Mar 10 - 09:58 PM (#2877020) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: GUEST,Fred Bailey -- -- May you live a thousand ye-e-a-a-r-sss May you drink a thousand be-e-e-e-r-sss Get pl-a-a-s-s-t-e-r-ed you b-a-a-d b-o-o-yy Happy Birthday to You |
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31 Mar 10 - 11:37 PM (#2877078) Subject: RE: Happy Birthday Song - everything goes wrong From: open mike hmm i thought i posted this but do not see it so here goes again' One of the best birthday songs is called Cut the Cake and is sung by John McCutcheon. (not the song asked for, but one verse is about how the birthday person is so busy at work they forget it is their b-day) When the birthday person get home they are "taken off guard, with chairs and tables all over the yard, and their friends jump up and holler real hard..." |