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This list of birthday songs contains songs which are the equivalent of Happy Birthday To You, sung around the globe on birthday occasions.

Based on the tune: Good Morning To All

These are translations or variations sung to the tune that is commonly associated with the English language lyrics "Happy Birthday To You".

  •  Albania: "Shume urime per ty"
  • Arab League Arabic countries: "سنة حلوة يا جميل" (Sana helwa ya gameel)[1]
  •  Argentina and  Uruguay: "Que los cumplas feliz"[2]
    • "El payaso Plin-Plin" (children song with the same melody)
  •  Armenia: "Tsnundd shnorhavor" "Ծնունդդ շնորհավոր"[3]
  •  Brazil: "Parabéns pra você"
  •  Bulgaria: "Честит рожден ден" (Chestit rozhden den)
  •  Canada:
    • "Happy Birthday" (English-speaking Canada)
    • "Bonne fête à toi" (French-speaking Canada)
    • "Gens d'chèr(e) ami(e)" (French-speaking Canada)
  •  Chile: "Cumpleaños feliz"[4]
  •  People's Republic of China: "Zhu ni shengri kuaile"[5] (祝 你 生日 快乐)
  •  Colombia: Japi verdi tu yu!
  •  Croatia: "Sretan rođendan ti"
        • Ecuador [6] (Unable to find name of real name of song, but here are the lyrics) "Cumpleaños feliz, Deseamos a tí, Cumpleños (nombre de la persona + tito/tita), cumpleaños feliz"!
  •  Estonia: "Palju õnne sulle!" or "Õnne soovime sul!"
  •  Finland: "Paljon onnea vaan"[7]
  •  France: "Joyeux anniversaire"
  •  Georgia: "გილოცავ დაბადების დღეს" (gilotsav dabadebis dges)
  •  Germany: "Zum Geburtstag viel Glück" and even the English original
  •  Hong Kong:
    • Happy Birthday To You commonly sung in English
    • "Sang Yat Go" (生日歌): Happy Birthday To You in Cantonese lyrics
  •  Hungary: "Boldog szülinapot"
  •  Iceland: "Hann(m)/Hún(f) á afmæli í dag"[7]
  •  Ireland: "Lá breithe sona duit"
  •  India: Happy Birthday to You often sung in English. वाढदिवसाच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा (Vad Divasachya Hardik Shubhchchya) in Marathi or जन्मदिन की शुभकामनाये (Janmdin Ki Shubh Kamanayen) in Hindi or ജന്മദിനാശംസകള്‍ നേരുന്നു (Janma dinasamsakal Nerunnu) in Malayalam and in Tamil (பிறந்தநாள் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்) and in Telugu జన్మదిన శుభాకాంక్షలు / పుట్టినరోజు శుభాకాంక్షలు (Janma Dina Shubhakankshalu / Puttina Roju Shubakankshalu) and in Kannada (Huttu Habbada Shubhashayagalu) and in Konkani (Vad Divasache Mast Mast Shubhashayu).
  •  Israel:
  •  Italy: "Tanti auguri a te"[7]
  •  Japan: Happy Birthday to You often sung in English, especially Elmo's version on Sesame Street.
  •  Republic of Korea: 생일 축하 합니다 (saeng-il chukhahamnida)
  •  Lithuania: "Su gimimo diena"
  •  Malaysia:
    • "Selamat Hari Jadi" - also commonly sung in English
  •  Netherlands: "Een fijne verjaardag voor jou"
    • "Welgefeliciteerd" (most often used)
    • "Happy Birthday to you" often sung in English
    • "Happy birthday to you, I went to the zoo, I saw a fat monkey and I knew/thought it was you" (parody)
    • "Happy Birthday to you, in de wei staat een koe en die koe zei: 'I love you' Happy birthday to you" (sweet parody)
    • "Hankie pankie Shanghai" (parody on Chinese sung by children)
    • "wushni wushni wush wush" (parody on Russian sung by children)
    • Dutch Children often sing the song in different languages (like English German, French parody Russian and parody Chinese)
  •  New Zealand: "Hari huritau ki a koe" (Māori)
  •  Peru : "Cumpleaños Feliz"
    • 'Happy Birthday to You' sung right before it (in English)
  •  Philippines: "Maligáyang Bátì"[7]
    • Happy Birthday to You also sung in English
  •  Portugal: Parabéns A Você
  •  Russia: С днём рожденья тебя (S dn'om rozhden'ya teb'a) (sometimes sung in English)
  •  Serbia: "Srećan ti rođendan!" (Cyrillic: "Срећан ти рођендан!")
  •  Slovenia: "Vse najboljše za te"
  •  Spain: "Cumpleaños Feliz" (also see below)
  •  Sri Lanka:
    • Sinhala"සුභ උපන්දිනයක් වේවා"(Suba Upan Dinayak Wewa)
  •  Sweden: "Har den äran idag"
  •  Switzerland:
  •  Taiwan - "ㄓㄨˋ ㄋㄧˇ ㄕㄥ ㄖˋ ㄎㄨㄞˋ ㄌㄜˋ" (祝 你 生日 快樂)
  •  Tanzania: "Hongera Hongera"
  •  Turkey: "İyi ki doğdun (isim)"
  •  United Kingdom:
    •  Wales: "Penblwydd hapus i chi"
    • many local parody versions substituting a few words that fit the tune for comic effect,
e.g. "Happy birthday to you, I went out to the zoo, I saw a great monkey, And he looked just like you," and
"Happy birthday to you, Squashed tomatoes in stew, You look like a monkey, And you smell like one too."
Some of these parody versions are sung by those wishing to make a point about the copyright status of the proper lyrics.

Other traditional birthday songs

Less canonical birthday songs and pop-music songs

Please add songs alphabetically by title

Notes

  1. ^ "Arabic Music: English Translation of Lyrics for Sana Helwa Ya Gameel by Sabah".
  2. ^ "Variations of Happy Birthday in Spanish".
  3. ^ "Tsnundd shnorhavor- Happy Birthday, by Ardzagank Studio".
  4. ^ Labbé, Carlos; Enrique Vila-Matas (2005). Lenguas (in Spanish). J. C. Sáez Editor. p. 165.
  5. ^ Phillips, Clifford H. (1993). China Beckons: An Insight to the Culture and the National Language. University of Alberta. p. 253.
  6. ^ "Happy Birthday Song". WordReference Forums. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Happy Birthday To You (American, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, English, Portuguese, Italian, Norwegian, Hebrew)".
  8. ^ Joseph Bernstein (2015). "One Man's Obsessive Quest To Wish Everyone In The World A Happy Birthday". Buzzfeed.com. Buzzfeed. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  9. ^ "LDS Church Music Interactive Music Player". Lds.org. Retrieved 2012-04-27.
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