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Then again, there are who knows how many birthday songs out there, all sung in English(and multiple other languages), and I'm willing to bet that everyone thinks their way is the right one, lol. Pretty sure one of the Barney vhs tapes has it on there, probably a few others that are mostly centered around music/teaching kids songs in some fashion. I know we have a couple kids' shows on vhs and dvd that have this song in it sans name-basically just singing a song like any other children's song sort of deal. The only times I have ever heard or personally seen it sung this way(sans name) is when it was addressing multiple people, or when it was sung in a generic way, in that it wasn't addressing anyone at all specifically. So, it's obvious that there are different English version wordings. I have English speaking friends and they never use the person's name when they sing the happy birthday song in English. Actually my German, Hungarian and Italian family members all learned English from watching tv, though their skills with the language are pretty varied and limited in many capacities too, lol. I think Happy Birthday seems universally sung in English because it's a rather easy song to grasp, the words are simple(and repetitive, which is important when it's not your native language) and it's what you will often see in movies, on tv, etc.Many people that don't speak English as a first language will actually learn their English from tv and movies-that's super common. Two of my children are near fluent in ASL too, and can do the Happy Birthday song-though truth be told others around them likely don't know wth they're doing with their hands when they do that, lol. Gemütlichkeit depicts a state of well-being, warmth, and friendliness. The word is the origin of the German prost. If they didn't know the songs in English as well as those other languages, they definitely would not understand them at all, lol. Luckily the lyrics basically consist of only two different words: Prosit is the conjunctive of the Latin word prodesse and means may it be beneficial or roughly be well. My kids know a crap ton of songs in different languages (English, Finnish, German, French, Italian), though they really only speak English, with some basic understanding of Spanish and German.