Happy Birthday

Original Song: "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Bill Hayes

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Born at the ending of the Holocene
Way back when the Sahara was green
Guess that you ate Dodo birds for cuisine
And rode Mastodons when you were just a teen

Happy, happy birthday!
Now how does it feel to be old

So were you a soldier in the Trojan war
Did you hide in caves and watch dinosaurs
And in your youth did you go explore
And try to find the mythical minotaur

Happy, happy birthday!
How did you get so old

Oh, did you live in Rome before the fall
Did you help the Chinese to build their wall
And was your dad a neanderthal
Are the paintings on cave walls your mama's scrawl

Happy, happy birthday!
Just how did you get so old

We all want to listen and hear you tell
How you saw Jericho when the walls all fell
Was there once a time that you did dwell
In ancient Pompeii with the volcanic smell

Happy, happy birthday!
You are so very old

Now we're all here and havin' lots of fun
Cause we all celebrate your age plus one
We add candles to your cake one by one
And when they're all on there they weigh a ton

Happy, happy birthday!
Good golly you are old

Your age's a secret nobody has guessed
But were you there on King Arthur's quest
Will you answer us all a simple request
And tell us all your trick for outliving the rest

Happy, happy birthday!
So we sing of being so old
Isn't is great to be old