Happy birhtday to you
Happy birhtday to you
Happy birhtday, happy birthday.......
Happy birthday to you.

Happy birhtday to you
Happy birhtday to you
Happy birhtday, happy birthday.......
Happy birthday to you.

The Beatles

(Paul McCartney/ John Lennon)

You say it's your birthday
It's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party
Yes we're going to a party party.

I would like you to dance--Birthday
Take a cha-cha-cha-chance-Birthday
I would like you to dance--Birthday
Dance

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too--yeah
You say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

Wear your heart on you sleeves today
coz it's the biggest celebration of your life.
It's not your age that matters
but it's how you live your life as you age.


Wish you a blissful, bountiful and healthy life
as you walk through another phase of your journey.
Just keep on smiling and keep believing in yourself.

Stay as young, healthy, sexy and as wealthy as you can.
You are so blessed with another year of bounty and pride.
Make this year and the years to come a valuable, meaningful, fruitful, happy and comfortable year.

Life has so many great things to offer, cherish them and don't forget to thank Him for the love and blessings.

Goodluck, Good Health & God Bless!

"Happy Birthday To You" was born in 1893 in Kentucky U.S.A. It originated when two sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill from Ketucky introduced the song "Good Morning to All" to Patty's kindergarten class in Kentucky. They published the tune in their songbook Song Stories for the Kindergarten in the same year.

Their students enjoyed the tune of "Good Morning To All" so much so that they even sang the tune of the song in birthday parties, changing the lyrics to Happy Birthday To You.

Many believed that the Hill sisters most likely copied the tune and lyrical idea from other popular and substantially similar nineteenth-century songs that predated theirs, including Horace Waters' "Happy Greetings to All", "Good Night to You All" also from 1858, "A Happy New Year to All" from 1875, and "A Happy Greeting to All", published 1885. The copyright for both the words and the music of "Good Morning to All" has since expired in the US and both are now a part of the public domain in the US. In the EU and other countries in which copyright lasts for the life of the author(s) plus 70 years, the copyright will expire after 31st December 2016, as Patty Hill died in 1946.

Children's Praise and Worship, edited by Andrew Byers, Bessie L. Byrum and Anna E. Koglin, published the song in 1918. In 1924, Robert Coleman included "Good Morning to All" in a songbook with the birthday lyrics as a second verse. Coleman also published "Happy Birthday" in The American Hymnal in 1933.

In 1935, "Happy Birthday to You" was copyrighted as a work for hire by Preston Ware Orem for the Summy Company, the publisher of "Good Morning to All". A new company, Birch Tree Group Limited, was formed to protect and enforce the song's copyright. In 1998, the rights to "Happy Birthday to You" and its assets were sold to The Time-Warner Corporation. In March 2004, Warner Music Group was sold to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr. The company continues to insist that one cannot sing the "Happy Birthday to You" lyrics for profit without paying roylties: in 2008, Warner collected about $5000 per day ($2 million per year) in royalties for the song.

This includes use in film, television, radio, anywhere open to the public, or even among a group where a substantial number of those in attendance are not family or friends of whoever is performing the song. For this reason, most restaurants or other public party venues will not allow their employees to perform the song in public, instead opting for other original songs or cheers in honor of the birthday celebrant.

Except for the splitting of the first note in the melody "Good Morning to All" to accommodate the two syllables in the word "happy", "Happy Birthday to You" and "Good Morning to All" are melodically identical. Precedent (regarding works derived from public domain material, and cases comparing two similar musical works) seems to suggest that the melody used in "Happy Birthday to You" would not merit additional copyright status for one split note. Whether or not changing the words "good morning" to "happy birthday" should be covered by copyright is a different matter. The words "good morning" were replaced with "happy birthday" by others than the authors of "Good Morning to All". Regardless of the fact that "Happy Birthday to You" infringed upon "Good Morning to All", there is one theory that because the "Happy Birthday to You" variation was not written by the Hills, and it was published without notice of copyright under the Copyright Act of 1909, the 1935 registration is invalid.

Professor Robert Brauneis cited problems with the song's authorship and the notice and renewal of the copyright, and concluded "It is almost certainly no longer under copyright." Many question the validity of the current copyright, as the melody of the song was most likely borrowed from other popular songs of the time, and the lyrics were improvised by a group of five- and six-year-old children who never received any compensation.