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The one the restaurants use and the copyrighted one that families use.

Restaurant: “happy happy birthday from all of us to you. We wish it was our birthday so we could party too! Hey!”

Family/copyright: “happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, -name-. Happy birthday to you.”

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slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Except it is not copyrighted anynore

From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You

The music and lyrics are in the public domain in the European Union and the United States. The copyright expired in the European Union on January 1, 2017. A U.S. federal court ruled in 2016 that Warner and Chappell’s copyright claim was invalid and there was no other claim to copyright.

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jesterraiin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have no idea what you’re talking about.

There’s only one brithday song and it goes like this: Awkwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard

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Eylrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s also “This is your birthday song. It isn’t very long. Hey!”

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FelipeFelop@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There’s another one used when the copyrighted one was still copyrighted.

“haa-py, happy, happy birthday. Happy birthday to you”

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