day, dreamer@dream, .com@ wrote:

> A Viking birthday song for you from the SCA, sung to the tune of the
> Volga Boatman.
> The "thud" is smacking your mug of ale on the table.
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Doom and gloom and dark despair
> People dying everywhere!
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> May the candles on your cake
> Burn like cities in your wake.
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Your servants steal, your wife's untrue
> Your children plot to murder you
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Burn the castle and storm the keep
> but be sure save the sheep
> For your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Black Death has just struck your town
> You yourself feel quite run-down
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Pillage, then burn by firelight
> Add romance to life tonight
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Indigestion's what you get
> From the enemies you have 'et
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> May your deeds with sword and axe
> Equal those with sheep and yaks
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> This one lesson you must learn
> First you pillage, then you burn
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> While you eat your birthday stew
> We will loot the town for you,
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> We brought linen, white as cloud
> The women sit and sew your shroud
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> Just be glad the friends you've got
> Haven't found out you-know-what
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> So far Death you have bypassed
> Don't look back, he's gaining fast
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
>
> It's your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)
> When you've reached this age you know
> That the mind is first to go
> On your Birthday! (thud!) Happy Birthday! (thud!)

That's fabulous, I'm gonna have it framed.
Edrena