birthday song

Annual cake serenade

A birthday song is a song sung to celebrate someone's birthday, almost always "Happy Birthday to You," performed as a group while the honoree sits before a cake with lit candles.

The ritual typically ends with the birthday person making a wish and blowing out the candles.

We gathered around the table to sing the birthday song.

Opposites
occasion type

birthday songfuneral dirge

Music for mourning ceremonies

death march · requiem · elegy · mourning song · funeral march

musical function

birthday songlullaby

Soothing song for babies

funeral dirge · funeral march · requiem · dirge · cradle song

Family

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Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G