"Happy Birthday To You" is the most well known song in the English speaking world and perhaps in the whole world to! It's origins began with a nursery teacher from Kentucky called Mildred J Hill. In 1893 Mildred composed a melody and her sister Patty Smith who was the school principal added some simple lyrics to form the song "Good morning to all". It was to be a simple greeting song for teachers to use in welcoming students to the class every morning. The catchy little tune soon became very popular and was later published in a songbook 'Song stories for Kindergarten'. No one is sure who changed the words to what we sing today as 'Happy Birthday' but it first appeared in a songbook in 1924 and since then it has been sung at millions of Birthday Parties!
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