![]() ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ 01:59, 7 July 2012 (UTC) In Prime Suspect, Tennison gets this treatment from the lads after solving her first case. But then, he’s not the Wikipedia Reference Desk. This American site says he had no luck tracking down its origin. Singing it after "Happy Birthday" is listed here as among the cliches Australians most love to hate, so that definitely proves it has a solid presence here. There are numerous hits for English and Welsh versions, all with the bawdy lyrics, and I guess if anyone knows about traditional bawdy raucous rugby songs, those good folk would. I must have led an especially protected life, because the only version I’ve ever heard (always in polite company) is: Google and YouTube would have any reasonable researcher believing it goes: ![]() There are a few YouTube versions, but they're of family parties or whatever and there's too much shouting going on to make out much. Has the tune changed, or is it sung to different tunes in different places? Was it really set to the tune of Advance Australia Fair, or did that just sort of evolve antipodistically? Most importantly, did it predate Advance Australia Fair (1878), and is it even remotely possible the tune of our hallowed national anthem is based on a pre-existing bawdy rugby song from God-knows-where? - ♬ Jack of Oz ♬ 00:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC) Can you give a link to this song being sung? The only clear version I could find was of some louts who sounded like they were singing "Miss Lucy had a baby". My searches so far just confirm it sometimes uses bawdy lyrics (that are repeated ad infinitum), that it's a "football song" or a "rugby song" and so on, but I have yet to see any info about who first wrote the words and when, and what tune they used. I'm not a football lover, so I wouldn't have known it had any association with that family of sports. So, rather than the ditty borrowing the tune of the anthem, the suggestion (perhaps not entirely serious) is that the borrowing was in the reverse direction.Īll this is telling me that my own experience of the song is not a reliable guide to its provenance. The first mention of anything Australian was this link, which says: "The renewed debate about the worthiness of Advance Australia Fair has prompted this musing from Anita Ryan, of Margaret River, WA: 'Is it just my imagination, or is our national anthem set to the tune of Why Was She Born So Beautiful?'" But I was surprised to see no mention of it in that article or even the talk page, so I thought I'd do a bit of digging and find when and where it originated.Ī quick look at Google tells me it's strongly associated with rugby or other forms of football – but with no special link to Australia. It even borrows the tune of what later became our national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. I've only ever heard it at Australian birthday parties – if only because I've never attended a birthday party while overseas. I put it into an Australian context, because I have always assumed it's an Australian song. Now your jail-bait days are done, let’s go out and have some fun.The above question about national anthems that have been parodied led me to mention "Why was s/he born so beautiful, why was s/he born at all". Now that you’re the age you are, your demise cannot be far. ![]() May the cities in your wake burn like candles on your cake. ![]() Unh! People dying everywhere, death destruction and dispair, But Happy Birthday. You ought to be publically pissed on! You ought to be publically shot,Īnd placed in a public ur-inal, And left there to fester and rot! Rot, rot!ģ) Happy Birthday. You’re no bloody use to anyone, You’re no bloody use at all! #2 is often used, also, when someone screws up in a rather spectacular fashion, or sometimes just to acknowledge an important, sometimes embarassing, occasion.ġ) The standard Happy Birthday song, which being copywritten, will not be spelled out.Ģ) Why was you born so beautiful? Why was you born at all? Inspired by the various rugby groups that use these same songs for essentially the same reasons.
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