the first line goes, happy birthday, happy birthday, people dying everyday, my friends bday is today and i really need to know it!!! thanks for all who answer seriously.
2006-08-07 06:55:31 · 10 answers · asked by Michelangelo 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
the first line ends after people dying everyday
2006-08-07 06:57:35 · update #1
Ah yes, one of my favorites. Here you go:
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Doom and gloom and dark despair
People dying everywhere!
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake.
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
Your children plot to murder you
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Burn the castle and storm the keep
Kill the women, but save the sheep
For your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Now you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Now that you're the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Black Death has just struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Burn, then rape by firelight
Add _romance_ to life tonight
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
We love children, yes we do
Baked or broiled or in a stew
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
This one lesson you must learn
First you pillage, then you burn
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
While you eat your birthday stew
We will loot the town for you,
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
We brought linen, white as cloud
The women sit and sew your shroud
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
Just be glad the friends you've got
Haven't found out you-know-what
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
I'm a leper, can't you see
Have a birthday kiss from me
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your birthday never fear
You'll be dead this time next year
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
So far Death you have bypassed
Don't look back, he's gaining fast
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
You must marry very soon
Baby's due by next full moon
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
When you've reached this age you know
That the mind is first to go
On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
2006-08-07 07:01:33 · answer #1 · answered by Queen of Cards 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-11 01:25:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Happy Birthday (The Mongol Birthday Song)
Grief and sorrow fill the air,
Children dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Plague and famine in the air,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Doom, destruction, and despair,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Gloom and doom and dark despair,
People dying everywhere.
Happy Birthday ...
Fear and gloom and darkness but
No one found out You Know What.
Happy Birthday ...
May the cities in your wake
Burn like candles on your cake.
Happy Birthday ...
See the women wail and weep.
Kill them all but save the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
Hear the women wail and weep;
Kill them all but spare the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
Rape the women while they sleep,
Kill them all but save the sheep.
Happy Birthday ...
You're a period cook, 'tis true;
Ask the beetles in the stew.
Happy Birthday ...
Now your jail-bait days are done;
Let's go out and have some fun.
Happy Birthday ...
May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks
Happy Birthday ...
You must marry very soon;
Baby's due the next full moon.
Happy Birthday ...
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue,
Your children plot to murder you.
Happy Birthday ...
They stole your sword, your gold, your house,
Took your sheep but not your spouse.
Happy Birthday ...
Were I sitting in your shoes,
I'd go out and sing the blues.
Happy Birthday ...
Though you're turning 29,
Age to you is like fine wine.
Happy Birthday ...
So you're 29 again;
Don't tell lies to your good friend.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've lived another year,
Age to you is like stale beer.
Happy Birthday ...
So another year has past,
Don't look back, they're gaining fast,
Happy Birthday ...
Long ago your hair turned grey;
Now it's falling out, they say.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've lived another year,
And your death is drawing near.
Happy Birthday ...
Now you've reached the age you are,
Your demise cannot be far.
Happy Birthday ...
The Black Death just struck your town;
You yourself feel quite run-down.
Happy Birthday ...
It's your birthday; never fear:
You'll be dead this time next year.
Happy Birthday ...
We've brought linen, white as cloud;
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud.
Happy Birthday ...
2006-08-07 07:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by c3llar_door 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only line to the song that I know is the one my mom used to sing:
Sorrow, sickness and despair,
people dying everywhere,
but Happy Birthday!
I never bothered to ask her where it came from, but I always remember my birthdays being rather pessimistic affairs.
2015-06-24 08:55:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birthday Dirge
2016-10-07 02:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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[FAQ] Lyrics for The Birthday Dirge
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From: gabe@angus.mystery.com (Gabe Helou)
Newsgroups: alt.happy.birthday.to.me, rec.music.filk
Subject: [FAQ] Lyrics for The Birthday Dirge
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 04:00:09 -0000
Message-ID: <1096869ft21fjba@corp.supernews.com>
Summary: Lyrics for The Birthday Dirge
Reply-To: gabe@mystery.com
Archive-name: music/birthday-dirge-faq
Posting-Frequency: monthly
Last-modified: 1997.10.13
Version: 1.03
Table of Contents
1. What is "The Birthday Dirge"?
2. What are the lyrics?
3. Where did it originate?
4. Why?
1. What is "The Birthday Dirge"?
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"The Birthday Dirge" is sung to the tune of "The Volga Boatmen". If you
don't know the tune by name, you know it by sound. It's the depressing
sounding Russian folk tune that nearly everyone has heard at one time
or another. The resounding thud that follows each "Happy Birthday!" is
traditionally accompanied by a "HUHN"-like grunt. The sort of groaning
grunt that workers lifting heavy loads might find natural.
2. What are the lyrics?
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The Dirge is know know in various circles as "The Barbarian Birthday Song",
"The Viking Birthday Sang", "The SCA Birthday Dirge", etc. Those lyrics
most common are listed first. Variations and additional lyrics follow.
Feel free to pick and choose those verses that best suit the group you
are with and the person being serenaded.
THE BIRTHDAY DIRGE
tune: "Volga Boatmen"
Happy Birthday!
1. Now you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
Happy Birthday!
1a. So you've aged another year
Now you know that Death is near
2. Children dying far and near
They say that cancer's caused by bheer
2a. Children dying everywhere
Women crying in despair
3. Death, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
3a. Doom and gloom and dark despair
People dying everywhere!
3b. Doom, destruction, and despair
Grief and sorrow fill the air
3c. Doom, destruction, and despair
People dying everywhere
3d. Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere
3e. Pain destruction and despair
People dying everywhere
4. Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row
5. Now that you're the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
5a. Now you are the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
5b. When you've reached the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
Other Common Verses:
6. Black Death has just struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down
6a. Pestilence has struck your town
You yourself feel quite run-down
7. Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near
8. Long ago your hair turned grey
Now it's falling out, they say
8a. Soon your hair will all turn grey
Then fall out (or so they say)
The Viking/Barbarian Verses:
9. Burn the castle and storm the keep
Kill the women, but save the sheep
9a. Hear the women wail and weep
Kill them all, but spare the sheep
9b. May the women wail and weep
kill them all, but save the sheep
10. Burn, then rape by firelight
Add _romance_ to life tonight
11. Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et
12. May the candles on your cake
Burn like cities in your wake.
12a. May the cities in your wake
Burn like candles on your cake,
13. May the children in the street
Be your barbequeing meat
13a. We love children, yes we do
Baked or broiled or in a stew
14. May your deeds with sheep and yaks
Equal those with sword and axe
14a. May your deeds with sword and axe
Equal those with sheep and yaks
15. They stole your sword, your gold, your house
Took your sheep but not your spouse
16. This one lesson you must learn
First you pillage, then you burn
17. While you eat your birthday stew
We will loot the town for you,
The SCA Verses:
18. We brought linen, white as cloud
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud
19. You're a period cook, its true
Ask the beetles in the stew
20. Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
Your children plot to murder you
Other Verses:
21. Fear and gloom and darkness but
No one found out you-know-what
21a. Just be glad the friends you've got
Haven't found out you-know-what
22. I'm a leper, can't you see
Have a birthday kiss from me
23. It's your birthday never fear
You'll be dead this time next year
24. Now another year has passed
Don't look now they're gaining fast!
24a. So far Death you have bypassed
Don't look back, he's gaining fast
25. Now you've lived another year
Age to you is like stale beer
26. Now your jail-bait days are done
Let's go out and have some fun
27. See the wrinkles on your face
Like the pattern of fine lace
28. Were I sitting in your shoes
I'd go out and sing the blues
29. So you're 29 again
Don't tell lies to your good friend
29a. Tho you're turning 29
Age to you is like fine wine
30. You must marry very soon
Baby's due the next full moon
31. When you've reached this age you know
That the mind is first to go
3. Where did it originate?
--------------------------
The origins are shrouded in mystery. My first exposure to it was around
1983 or 1984. I've heard various forms of the tune performed by various
organizations (e.g. SF fandom, SCA). This threatens to remain one of
those unanswerable frequently asked questions.
4. Why?
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After several sessions of trying to remember what the lyrics were, I
decided to start writing them down. Then I began to see other versions
on various newsgroups. Collecting and grouping the verses has become one
of my hobbies. After enough people asked for copies, I decided to start
posting the collection.
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This compilation is Copyright 1997 by B. Gabriel Helou (gabe@mystery.com)
If you forward, repost, or print this message, please include this notice.
2006-08-07 07:18:54 · answer #6 · answered by KIT-KAT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-24 23:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sung to the tune of "Volga Boatmen", it's known as the Viking Birthday or Mongol Birthday or SCA Birthday Song.
Happy Birthday! (UHH!) Happy Birthday! (UHH!)
Death and gloom and black despair
People dying everywhere
Happy Birthday! (UHH!) Happy Birthday! (UHH!
Now you are the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
May the candles on your cake
burn like cities in your wake
Fear and gloom and darkness yet
no one found out YOU KNOW WHAT
You're a period cook, its true
ask the beetles in the stew
Now your jail-bait days are done
let's go out and have some fun!
You must marry very soon
baby's due the next full moon
Were I sitting in your shoes
I'd go out and sing the blues
Now you've lived another year
age to you is like stale beer
Long ago your hair turned grey
now it's falling out, they say
It's your birthday never fear
You'll be dead this time next year
See the wrinkles on your face
Like the pattern of fine lace
Indigestion's what you get
From the enemies you 'et
This one lesson you must learn
FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn
While you eat your birthday stew
We will sack a town for you
Death will come before the dawn
Now's the time to party on!
People starving on the earth,
Go ahead, eat your dessert,
Rape the horses while they sleep,
See the women wail and weep
Your ship of fortune arrives at last
Plague death flag nailed to its mast
You hear the pitter patter of little feet
Midget thieves have burgled your keep
Your daughter's face could crack a mirror
Your firstborn son is acting queer
Burn the Castle and storm the keep
Kill the Women but SAVE THE SHEEP!
Hear the women wail and weep,
kill them all but spare the sheep!
May your deeds with sheep and yaks
equal those with sword and axe
Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
Your children plot to murder you
They stole your gold, your sword, your house
They stole your sheep, but not your spouse
so you're 29 again
don't tell lies to your good friend
So another year has passed
don't look now they're gaining fast!
the Black Death has struck your town
you yourself feel quite run-down
We brought you linen, white as clouds
Now we'll sit and sew your shroud!
So far death you have bypassed
Don't look back it's gaining fast
I'm a leper, can't you see
Have a birthday kiss from me
Burn, then rape by firelight
Add -romance- to life tonight!
Birthdays come but once a year,
Marking time as Death draws near
Now you've lived another year,
And your death is drawing near.
Raise your cup of bitter cheer,
Make the barman eat his ear
We like children, yes we do
baked or broiled or in a stew.
Famine, fear, and fire and flood,
Can't keep your face out of the mud.
News that fills our hearts with fear:
They've proved cancer's caused by beer
Just be glad the friends you've got
Haven't found out you-know-what!
Children dying far and near
They say that cancer's caused by beer
Birthdays come but once a year
Marking time as Death draws near,
Now you've reached the age you are
Your demise cannot be far
Like the wrinkles in your lace
time is etched upon your face
when you've reached your age you know
That the mind is first to go
Now you've lived another year
And your death is drawing near
It's your birthday; never fear;
You'll be dead this time next year
Children dying everywhere
Women crying in despair
Typhoid, plague and polio
Coffins lined up in a row
May the children in the street
Be your barbequeing meat
Your friends are here, your enemies too,
We just don't know who is who....
May the women that you see
Not have sense enough to flee.
2006-08-07 07:07:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was wondering much the same question
2016-08-14 03:14:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one really seems to care--the line I think, not that i do not care...I thought it was people dying everywhere...oh well, never mind
2006-08-07 07:00:28 · answer #10 · answered by tonya j 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋