And of course, who can forget Marilyn Monroe’s breathy performance? Then there was a great musical birthday moment from Boy Meets World, a diddy by The Three Stooges, and Burt and Ernie’s celebration for the letter U. I found the Beatles’ Birthday Song, a tribute by Elvis, and then this odd version. There is a lot of birthday music on Youtube. I thought maybe I’d strike gold with Youtube. I tried quotations marks around the words, the words by themselves. I searched each individual line of lyrics. I tried different variations of the lyrics. Over the course of several more days, I logged hours and hours of internet searching. (I feel ya brother!) The other two were completely unrelated. One led to someone who was also searching for this song, for the same sentimental reasons. I picked a portion of the lyrics and plugged them into the search engine. I’m a child of the internet age and I trust the mysterious Web to answer all my questions. Nobody knew the title of the song, but everyone guessed it was some variant of “the Happy Birthday Song.” I didn’t despair, however, because I knew most of the lyrics and I imagined I could just type them into Google and the song would pop out. Nobody remembered who sang the song, or what the album was called. My little branch of the family has since lost this precious tape. My grandma had the record for a long time and somewhere a long the line, somebody transferred the song to a cassette tape. Now, since several people in my family are slightly tone-deaf (okay, very tone-deaf–sorry Grandma), we always played the actual recorded version of this song, too. Now hurry and cut the cake, we can hardly waitĪs you open your gifts we’ll sing once more to youuuuu Oh look, your friends are waiting here for you! The lyrics go like this:Īnd you’re growing up the way we want you to

My family has a special Happy Birthday song that we’ve always sung to each other on birthdays. I’ve always been grateful for my grandma’s creative idea, and I know it’s something that I will do when I have kids of my own.

When you flip through, you can watch me go from a baby that needed propping up to a 5’10 gal who blocks the chair. My grandma used to take a picture of me sitting in her rocking chair every year on my birthday. Clearly, this will be a magical, epic year.Ī lot of people have certain birthday traditions that help make their special day memorable–whether it’s a favorite meal, a standing date with friends, or birthday margaritas. It’s my birthday today! Yipee! Wahoo! Commence applause, joyful cheering, and prayerful thanks for my existence! It’s the 23rd, I’m turning 23, and it’s a Tuesday, which is the same day of the week I was born on 23 years ago.

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