• Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee
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      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
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        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.

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        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.

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        There’s also “This is your birthday song. It isn’t very long. Hey!”

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

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

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      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