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!)

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

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:10:21 GMT, The Joneses >
wrote:

>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.
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>That's fabulous, I'm gonna have it framed.
>Edrena
There are about 100 different versions of it. The fun of it is you add
to it the more times it is sung, the more verses it has. You can add
things to poke fun at the person having the birthday so that version
becomes that persons song. The one a local group sang for me went on
for 5 minutes. I think I went through 5 drinking horns of ale by the
end of it and was well on my way to happy land. Have fun with it.