Friday 19 August 2005

A very merry unbirthday to you

We need a new birthday song. The regular "Happy Birthday" is just embarrassing for everyone, so it's time it was retired. Current candidates for replacement include:
- Singing just the first two lines of Happy Birthday, so you stop before you say a name:
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
...

- The Depressing Birthday Song (parody of Happy Birthday, includes depressed grunts and mentions worldwide despair and death).
Happy birthday. Unh.
Happy Birthday. Unh.
People living in despair.
People dying everywhere.
Happy birthday. Unh.

- The Wal E Weasel Gender-Neutral Special Birthday Song from The Simpsons. I like this one just a little bit more than the first one and a lot more than the second one.
You're the birthday
You're the birthday
You're the birthday boy or girl!

- A brand new song that has yet to materialise.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - The one problem with the Wal E Weasel song is that, at the end, your tail has to fall off and catch fire.
PPS - I can't do that yet.

1 comment:

Erin Marie said...

I had an RE teacher that taught us this birthday song when I was in grade five or six, I think.

A happy birthday to you
A happy birthday to you
May you find Jesus near every day of the year
A happy birthday to you
A happy birthday to you
And the best year you ever had
*clap clap clap*


She was Hungarian or something though, so it came out 'A happy birshday'. It was a fun song. Don't know how it would go out in the secular world though.