Happy Birthday to You: notes for 8 instruments
“Happy birthday to you…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.
- PianoLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- KalimbaTabs · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- RecorderLetters · G majorD4–D5 Medium
- FluteLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ViolinLetters · C majorG4–G5 Medium
- ClarinetLetters · C major (written)G3–G4 Medium
- TrumpetValves · F major (written)C4–C5 Medium
- Alto SaxLetters · G major (written)D4–D5 Medium
Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.
Words (first verse)
Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear (name), Happy birthday to you.
About this song
- Melody
- Mildred J. Hill (1859–1916), 1893
- Words
- Traditional, 1911 (first verse shown)
- Public domain
- Melody 1893, words 1911: first published before 1931.
- Source
- “Good Morning to All”, in Song Stories for the Kindergarten (Clayton F. Summy, 1893), scans on IMSLP (1893)
- Words source
- Words first printed with the tune in The Elementary Worker and His Work (1911); Marya v. Warner/Chappell (C.D. Cal. 2015) found no valid copyright in them, and the 2016 settlement ended in a judgment that the song is public domain