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The melody was originally written for a song called ‘Good Morning to All’, which the sisters wrote together for Patty’s students. The birthday lyrics were added later. Sing along to the tune with their original lyric, and you can hear it fits the main melody perfectly.
"Happy Birthday to You", or simply "Happy Birthday", is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person's birthday. According to the 1998 Guinness World Records , it is the most recognized song in the English language, followed by " For He's a Jolly Good Fellow ".
The tune was written by a pair of kindergarten teachers in the late 1800s or early 1900s and was called "Good Morning To You". Their family still owns the rights to the tune. Lyrics and video for the song Happy Birthday by Traditional - Songfacts.
Traditional Happy Birthday Song Lyrics. Most birthday songs you can find online are modern or pop songs. Here is a traditional happy birthday song lyrics you can sing on your next party. Happy birthday to You.
Here are the original lyrics: Good morning to you. Good morning, dear children. Good morning to all. Later in 1893, the song was published in the songbook Song Stories For The Kindergarten, and other schools started singing it.
The tune was first published exactly 103 years ago, in a book titled, “Song Stories of the Kindergarten,” wherein “Happy Birthday,” was “Good Morning To All,” sung to the same melody.
How exactly that happened is unknown, but by 1924, it appeared in another songbook edited by Robert Coleman with the Hill sisters’ original lyrics as the first verse and “Happy birthday to you” as the second. The tune soon grew in popularity and started to appear more in print.
“Happy Birthday to You” began as a simple melody for kindergarten children, and has become one of the most recognizable English-language songs in the world.
The melody and lyrics of "Happy Birthday to You" were written by sisters Mildred J. Hill (1859-1916) and Patty Smith Hill (1868-1946). Patty was a schoolteacher who developed the Patty Hill blocks which were building blocks used as educational tools.
In actual fact, we're able to trace 'Happy Birthday' back to its origins. Its melody began life as a song called 'Good Morning to All', which was sung by Patty and Mildred J Hill in 1893 (but it's still not clear whether they composed it).