Feb 2022 rock birthday calories-dont-matter happy
Yesterday was my birthday, but the web hosting site wasn't cooperating. It's working today. So, a day late and $0.009 short (current exchange rate for a ruble) here's my alternative to the usual Happy Birthday tunes. With a nod to the Beatles, of course!
JOLLY GOOD BIRTHDAY
c. 2022 (raspberry33/T. Higgins)
V1: (call) (response)
Have a Jolly Good Birthday Today is your Day
Have lots of fun Go out and play
Gather your friends we’ll lead you astray
On your Jolly Good Birthday
V2:
Have a Jolly Good Birthday Sink a drink or two
Do whatever it takes to get you through
Decide where to ink that new tattoo
On your Jolly Good Birthday
Bridge:
One year older, you cheeky old chap
One more year of taking too much crap
One year closer to the final dirt nap
(oy, oy, oy, oy buildup)
(Instrumental)
V3:
Have a Jolly Good Birthday laughter and mirth
Don’t think about your increasing girth
Calories don’t count on your day of birth
So have a Jolly Good Birthday!
V4:
Have a Jolly good birthday Yeah, yeah
A Jolly good birthday Yeah, yeah
Stay alive and alert No naps in the dirt
On your Jolly Good Birthday
>CHORUS
V5:
Have a Jolly Good Birthday Sink another drink
It’s a day for reactions No time to think
You can wear leather or look pretty in pink
On your Jolly Good Birthday
Yeah, your Jolly Good Birthday yeah, yeah
Yeah, your Jolly Good Birthday yeah, yeah
@danvaillancourt Mar 2022
This is great! Happy belated birthday. Lots of fun lines that I laughed at and catchy all the way through. Yeah yeah and oy oys are really fun. My favorite is "Gather your friends we’ll lead you astray" which really kind of sets up the rest. Nice work.
@matthew62 Feb 2022
A belated happy birthday to you. I smiled and chuckled all the way through this one. There are lines in about every verse and in the chorus that could be on a birthday card, especially a shoebox card! I've got to send a link to this to my brother-in-law...he'll love it. Hats off, birthday boy!