Lyrics to
Happy Birthday 1975

This version of Happy Birthday 1975 was released by Joni Mitchell in 1979.

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“Ready?”
“Alright!”
“Happy Birthday to Charles, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday dear Charles…”
“Play that weird minor chord…”
“Happy birthday to you…”
“Play that minor chord!”
“How old are you, How old are you”
“Fifty-four, motherfucker”
ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-
“Fifty-three”
“How old are you?”
“Fifty-three Charles!”
“Fifty-four!”
“Fifty-three”
“How old are you now – tell me honestly…”
“Fifty-three! He was born in 1922”
“1922..”

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About Lyrics and Happy Birthday 1975 by Joni Mitchell

The lyrics for Happy Birthday 1975 are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1979 song by Joni Mitchell. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Happy Birthday 1975 have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Happy Birthday 1975 - Joni Mitchell and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Happy Birthday 1975 by Joni Mitchell in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Happy Birthday 1975" means the words set to the music of Happy Birthday 1975, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joni Mitchell. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Happy Birthday 1975 and the lyrics to Happy Birthday 1975 are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joni Mitchell who came here looking just for the lyrics to Happy Birthday 1975, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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