Re: Birthday tune?

[klezmer <klezmer...>]

There's a wonderful Yiddish one

Tzu dayn geburnstog, tzu dayn yontif haynt
Hobn zikh farzamlt dayne gute fraynd
(2 times)

Hoorah, hoorah mir vintshn dir,
Hoorah, hoorah mir vintshn dir,
Mir vintshn dir gezunt un glik!
(2 times)

(Very) loosely
   to your birthday, to your special day today
   are gathered all your good friends

   Hoorah! we wish you
   Hoorah! we wish you
   We wish you health and happiness.


Of course, I don't know how to send the melody (and haven't mastered abc yet)
but the tune appears on Gerry Tenny's and Betty Albert Schrek's "Lomir
Zingen a Yiddish Lid" / Let's sing a Yiddish Song from 1988.

Dena


><DIV></DIV>&gt;From: "Michel Borzykowski" <BORZYKOWSKI (at) INFOMANIAK(dot)CH>
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
><DIV></DIV>&gt;To: World music from a Jewish slant <JEWISH-MUSIC (at) 
>SHAMASH(dot)ORG>
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Subject: Birthday tune?
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:20:53 +0200
><DIV></DIV>&gt;
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Shalom khewre!
><DIV></DIV>&gt;
><DIV></DIV>&gt;I feel sometimes a bit in trouble when asked to play "happy
>birthday" for somebody in a gig. I wrote a parodic pseudo-freygish version
>of "happy birthday to you" that always make 2 or 3 people laugh in the
>audience! But...
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Does somebody know a real typical klezmer birthday tune?
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Thanks!
><DIV></DIV>&gt;Michal

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