Song

Birthday

Release date: 22 November 1968

You say it's your birthday,
It's my birthday too, yeah;
They say it's your birthday,
We're gonna have a good time;
I'm glad it's your birthday,
Happy birthday to you.

Yes, we're goin' to a party, party.
Yes, we're goin' to a party, party,
Yes, we're goin' to a party, party.

I would like you to dance, (Birthday)
Take a chachachachance, (Birthday)
I would like you to dance, (Birthday) Dance!

You say it's your birthday,
It's my birthday too, yeah;
They say it's your birthday,
we're gonna have a good time;
I'm glad it's your birthday,
Happy birthday to you.

"Birthday"

"Birthday" 45
Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles
Released 22 November 1968
Recorded 18 September 1968
Genre Hard rock, rock and roll
Length 2:42
Label Apple Records
Writer Lennon-McCartney
Producer George Martin
The Beatles track listing
30 tracks
Side one
  1. "Back in the U.S.S.R."
  2. "Dear Prudence"
  3. "Glass Onion"
  4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
  5. "Wild Honey Pie"
  6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
  7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
  8. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
Side two
  1. "Martha My Dear"
  2. "I'm So Tired"
  3. "Blackbird"
  4. "Piggies"
  5. "Rocky Raccoon"
  6. "Don't Pass Me By"
  7. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"
  8. "I Will"
  9. "Julia"
Side three
  1. "Birthday"
  2. "Yer Blues"
  3. "Mother Nature's Son"
  4. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"
  5. "Sexy Sadie"
  6. "Helter Skelter"
  7. "Long, Long, Long"
Side four
  1. "Revolution 1"
  2. "Honey Pie"
  3. "Savoy Truffle"
  4. "Cry Baby Cry"
  5. "Revolution 9"
  6. "Good Night"

"Birthday" is a song written by Lennon-McCartney and performed by the Beatles on their double album The Beatles (commonly known as The White Album). It is the opening track on the third side of the LP (or the second disc in CD versions of the record). The song is an example of the Beatles' return to more traditional rock and roll form, although their music had increased in complexity and it had developed more of its own characteristic style by this point. McCartney and Ringo Starr performed it for Starr's 70th birthday on 7 July 2010.

©1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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