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You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2.
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Wtf are you talking about? There's only one birthday song.
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.”
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.
There's also "This is your birthday song. It isn't very long. Hey!"
There’s another one used when the copyrighted one was still copyrighted.
“haa-py, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you”
I know two. One in my native tongue, and one in english.
I know 4. Two in my native tongue, one in Danish, and one in English.
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
I know three in English so there must be more in other languages
Yes.