You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2.

Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 13 points –
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Happy birthday to you
You belong in a zoo
You look like a monkey
And you smell like one too!

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.”

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.

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”

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 3, in different languages.

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

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)

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.

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

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

Happy birthday, Dick!

This is incredible

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

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.

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

There’s also the classic Birthday Dethday by Dethklok

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

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