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...)

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[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.