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This list of birthday songs contains songs which are the equivalent of Happy Birthday To You, sung in restaurants and homes around the globe on birthday occasions.
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Based on Happy Birthday to You
These are translations or variations sung to the tune of the traditional English language song.
- Arabic countries: "Sana helwa ya gameel"[1]
- Argentina and Uruguay: "Que los cumplas feliz"[2]
- "El payaso Piln-Plin" (children song with the same melody)
- Brazil: "Parabéns pra você"
- Chile: "Cumpleaños feliz"[3]
- "Cumpleaños fatal" (parody)[4]
- China: "Zhu ni shengri kuaile"[5] (祝 你 生日 快乐)
- Croatia: "Sretan rođendan ti"[6]
- Estonia: "Õnne soovime sul!"
- Finland: "Paljon onnea vaan"[7]
- France: "Joyeux anniversaire"
- Germany: "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück"
- Greece: "Να ζήσεις και χρόνια πολλά" (Na zisis ke hronia polla)
- Hong Kong:
- Happy Birthday To You commonly sung in English
- "Sang Yat Go" (生日歌): Happy Birthday To You in Cantonese lyrics
- "Zuk Sau Go" (祝寿歌): 恭祝你福寿与天齐/庆"贺"你生辰快乐/年年都有今日 ("Nian Nian Dou You Jin Ri" or "Nin Nin Dou Yao Gum Yat") 岁岁都有今朝/恭喜你..恭喜你. ("Gong Xi Ni Gong Xi Ni" or "Gong Hei Nei Gong Hei Nei)[8]
- India: Janam Din Mubarak or "Happy Birthday to you", in English
- Italy: "Tanti auguri a te"[7]
- Israel:
- Happy Birthday (Hebrew: יום הולדת שמח Yom Huledet Same'ach)
- Iceland: "Hann á afmæli í dag"[7]
- Japan:
- お誕生日おめでとう (otanjōbi omedetō)
- Happy Birthday to You often sung in English
- Korea: 생일 축하 합니다 (saeng-il chukhahamnida)
- Malaysia:
- "Selamat Hari Jadi"
- "Allah selamatkan kamu" (Traditional version)
- Netherlands: "Een fijne verjaardag voor jou"
- New Zealand: "Hari huritau ki a koe" (Maori)
- Philippines: "Maligáyang Bátì"[7]
- Happy Birthday to You also sung in English
- Slovenia: "Vse najboljše za te"
- Spain: "Cumpleaños Feliz" (also see below)
- Switzerland - Swiss German: "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück"
- Taiwan - "ㄓㄨˋ ㄋㄧˇ ㄕㄥ ㄖˋ ㄎㄨㄞˋ ㄌㄜˋ" (祝 你 生日 快樂)
- Tanzania: "Hongera Hongera"
- Turkey: "İyiki doğdun (isim)"
- Uruguay: "Que los cumplas feliz"
- Wales: "Penblwydd hapus i chi"
- Serbia - Cyrillic alphabet: "Срећан ти рођендан!"
- Serbia: "Srećan ti rođendan!"
Other traditional birthday songs
- Canada (French Canada):
- Bonne fête à toi
- Gens du pays
- Cuba: Felicidades
- Dominican Republic: Celebro tu cumpleaños
- Germany:
- Viel Glück und viel Segen
- Zum Geburtstag viel Glück
- Greece: The Polychronion ("God Grant Many Years")
- India (Hindi): Janam Din Mubarak
- Indonesia: Selamat Ulang Tahun
- Iran: Tavallodet Mobaarak تولدت مبارک ("blessed be your birthday")
- Israel:
- Latvia: Daudz baltu dieniņu
- Lithuania: Ilgiausių metų
- Mexico: Las Mañanitas (
Las Mañanitas (help·info)) - Netherlands:
- Er is er een jarig
- Lang zal hij/zij leven
- Twee violen en een trommel en een fluit
- Oh wat zijn wij heden blij (A more informal children's song, sung in school before treats are distributed)
- Norway
- Gratulerer med dagen
- Hurra for deg[7]
- Pakistan: Salgirah Mubarak Ho
- Poland: Sto lat
- Portugal: Parabens A Você
- Romania: Mulţi ani trăiască
- Russia: Каравай, Песенка Крокодила Гены (Song of Crocodile Gena)
- Serbia: Danas nam je divan dan
- Spain: Feliz, feliz en tu día
- Sweden: Ja, må han leva[7]
- Venezuela: Ay, que noche tan preciosa
Less canonical birthday songs and pop-music songs
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- "Birthday Boogaloo," a song by Monty Harper
- "Birthday Dethday", a song by Dethklok
- "Birthday Song", a song by Don McLean
- "Birthday", a song by The Beatles
- "Happy Birthday", a song by New Kids on the Block
- "Happy Birthday, Mr. President", a performance by Marilyn Monroe of the traditional song
- "Happy Birthday, Mr. Christian", a song by Apollonia 6
- "The Birthday", a song by The Idle Race
- "Happy Birthday", a song by The Birthday Party
- "Happy Birthday", a song by DJ Bobo
- "Happy Birthday", a song by The Click Five
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Flipsyde
- "Happy Birthday", a song written by Gabriel Mekler and performed by Steppenwolf
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Stevie Wonder
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Nelio Guerson and Carlos Guerson - Review this song on Palco MP3 [9]
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Altered Images
- "Happy Birthday", a song by B'z from Monster
- "The Happy Happy Birthday Song", a song by The Arrogant Worms from Gift Wrapped
- "Happy Birthday", a song by The Birthday Massacre from Nothing and Nowhere
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Sufjan Stevens from A Sun Came
- "Happy Birthday", a song by
"Weird Al" Yankovic from"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Sana Helwa", a song by Sabah Feghali
- "Happy Birthday, Dear Friend Lisa", a song Jens Lekman from When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog
- "The Happy Birthday Song", a song by Andrew Bird from Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
- Happy, Happy Birthday, by Mildred E. Millet, a Latter-day Saint children's primary song.[1]
- "Happy Birthday, You're not special", a song by NOFX from Surfer
- "New Happy Birthday Song?", a song by NOFX from 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Tender Forever from The Soft and the Hardcore
- "Happy Birthday", a song by The Wedding Present from John Peel Sessions 1987-1990
- "Birthday Song", a song by Totally Michael from For You.
- "Birthday Present", a song by Mirah from The Old Days Feeling
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Clem Snide from Soft Spot
- "Happy Birthday (My Olde Friend)" by Voltaire from the album The Bottom of the Sea.
- "Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary" a heavy metal version composed by master shake, Zakk Wylde, and Geddy Lee.
- "Happy Birthday", by The Innocence Mission from the album We Walked in Song
- "Birthday Sex" by Jeremih from the album Jeremih
- "Happy Birthday to Me", a song by Cracker from the album Cracker
- "Namida Surprise!", a song by AKB48
- "Happy Birthday", The Cbeebies birthday
- "Birthday", Twista
- Unhappy Birthday, The Smiths
- "Happy, Happy Birthday To You", by Disney
- "Alles Gute zum Geburtstag" by Frank Zander und Die Schlümpfe
- "Happy Birthday", a song by Krizz Kaliko
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This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
References
- ^ "Arabic Music: English Translation of Lyrics for Sana Helwa Ya Gameel by Sabah". http://www.shira.net/music/lyrics/sana-helwa-ya-gameel.htm.
- ^ "Variations of Happy Birthday in Spanish". http://www.spanish-translation-help.com/happy-birthday-in-spanish.html.
- ^ Labbé, Carlos; Enrique Vila-Matas (2005) (in Spanish). Lenguas. J. C. Sáez Editor. p. 165. http://books.google.com/books?id=pcq9gu6aJEsC&pg=PA165&dq=cumpleaños-feliz.
- ^ "Como cantan el Cumpleaños Feliz? Alguna Parodia?" (in Spanish). Yahoo! Answers. http://espanol.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070616234015AAcgq11.
- ^ Phillips, Clifford H. (1993). China Beckons: An Insight to the Culture and the National Language. University of Alberta. p. 253. http://books.google.com/books?id=1MyfIZfLIDwC&pg=PA253&dq=zhu-ni-shengri-kuaile.
- ^ "How do you sing the Happy Birthday song in Croatian?". Yahoo! Answers. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080107124535AAL2Vz2.
- ^ a b c d e f "Happy Birthday To You (American, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, English, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Hebrew)". http://www.danmansmusic.com/childrens/happy_birthday_to_you.txt.
- ^ zhidao.baidu.com
- ^ Happy Birthday on Palco MP3
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