Happy Birthday Chords And Tabs

Today we are going to behave more in keeping with a site devoted to free guitar lessons and present to you the chords and tabs for the Happy Birthday song.

All us creative types know that if you are going to compose music you are going to need to have a close relationship with a lawyer. You see, when you start composing songs, that’s your intellectual property and ain’t nobody goin’ to meddle with it. Nosiree Bob. If any other creative musical person publishes someting that distantly resembles your original composition, that is your cue to have their kneecaps removed by hired goons and then use the legal system to squeeze their money out of them until they look like those clergymen of days gone by in the catacombs of Rome.

Now, back in the 1800’s intellectual property was not recognized as the cash cow that it is today. So when two ladies named Mildred and Patty Hill wrote a pleasant little ditty called “Good Morning To All”, they stood by and watched as various random mangy varmints changed their song to “Happy Birthday To You”. They probably even thought it was a kind of sweet idea.

For those of you with a genuine thirst for music here are the tabs for a version of the Happy Birthday melody.

E ———|——|——–|——|———|3-0—|—-1-1-|0—–|—–

B ———|—-1-|0——-|—-3-|1——–|—-1-|0——-|–1-3-|1—-

G —–0-0-|2-0—|—-0-0-|2-0—|—–0-0-|——|–2—–|——|—–

D ———|——|——–|——|———|——|——–|——|—–

A ———|——|——–|——|———|——|——–|——|—–

E ———|——|——–|——|———|——|——–|——|—–

YouTube has many Happy Birthday videos, so here is one in more or less the same key as the one I posted. The language the guy in the video is speaking is a version of English spoken only in New Zealand.