When I was in Paris last month, I went out with this very nice and interesting French guy. We were talking about how it bothered me not being able to understand what he was saying when he stammered in French. So then he said he would sing me a song in French that he was 100% sure I would understand. 'Hit me', I said. And then he started singing. It was hilarious, I did understand actually. He was singing the Happy Birthday song. He noted how amazing the fact that it's just the same melody and lyrics almost all over the world but only with different translations. It never crossed my mind to actually find out how it originally came out before. And then I told him I think it's just one of those things that can't be tracked down. However, I was so curious afterwards and well I just found out that I was wrong. I actually googled it and found millions of results about its history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
So ironic ha? How we don't give importance to certain things in life!!
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