A bunch of birthdays, with menagerie and barbarian chorus

[damont]

I've four friends on my f-list whose birthday is within two days of today (in either direction). So happy birthday to cellio, goddessgoddess, stanharding (and good to hear how things are going with ALNM!), and jaine_parr!

Hippo birdie two ewes (ya sure I shouldn't be spelling that "youse"?)
Hippo birdie two ewes
Hippo birdie deer ewes,
Hippo birdie two ewes!

And for my first encore, here's a short excerpt of a song you probably know all too well... (cues barbarian chorus)

Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

Doom and gloom and dark despair
People dying ev'rywhere

On your Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

Cities burning in your wake
Like the candles on your cake

Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

This one lesson you must learn:
FIRST you pillage, THEN you burn!

Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

Mortal vermin cringe in fear
Thank God it's only once a year

Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

When you've reached this age, you know
That the mind is... (er, I forget how this verse ends... gimme a minute, it'll come to me, I'm sure...)

Comments

[stanharding.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Is there music with the barbarian lyrics?

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

(points to "Current Music:" notation on the post)

Song of the Volga Boatmen, the "famous" bit (as it were). The chorus is:

C  A  D  .  A  .  (2 beats rest/stomp)
Happy Birth-DAY! (*STOMP*)

And the verses go:

C     C     F     F     E     E     D     .
Doom  and   gloom and   dark  des-  pair

C     C     F     F     E     E     D     .
Peo-  ple   dy-   ing   ev-   'ry-  where

And so on.

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Folk/volgabo2.mid

First bit is the chorus, which is all that's used for the Birthday Song.

This is a better one for looking up.
http://www.kaikracht.de/balalaika/english/songs/eyuk_mel.htm

Happy Birthday [Stomp]
Happy Birthday [Stomp]

corresponds to the part that goes "Ey Ukh-nyem!"(x2).

The verses, like
"When you reach the age you are,
Your demise cannot be far"

get crammed into the part that goes,
"Ye-stsho ra zik, Ye-stsho da raz!"

Which sounds like it wouldn't fit, until you re-listen to the first midi version.

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just found something interesting.

Anybody out there who's been at an after-feast dancing session, and had someone pop up with a supposedly-old number called "Korobushka"?

Check this out:
http://www.kaikracht.de/balalaika/english/songs/katy_mel.htm

We won't go into what the name "Katyusha" got hung onto, in WW II.

[goddessgoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm really touched you remembered

[cellio]

Thanks!