Re: Birthday tune?

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

I believe it is in the Arbeter Ring publication of holiday songs, yontefdike 
teg,
or in Kinderbuch's Lomir kinder zingen.

Lorele

klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com wrote:

> 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
>