Well, "Jubilate Deo" and all that. Thanks for the help in posting, Aris! And Jeffrey, this is for celebrations both in the ordinary and extraordinary form.
Thank you so much (blush!). It really is brilliant. Maybe I can copyright it, make an octavo edition, charge people for singing it, impose complicated expensive schemes on anyone who wants to print it, threaten bloggers who want to use the text and set it to polyphonic versions, and then maybe prevail upon a committee somewhere to declare this to be the Official Authoritative Version so that people MUST sing it and no one may sing or print anything like it lest they cough up the big bucks.
So glad I'm in time to say- Happy Birthday, Jeffrey! Ad multos annos!
Love your plans to corner the market, BTW. I fully expect to hear about this new version being all the rage at the LA Religious Congress. Bongo accompaniment, anyone? hee hee
MaryAnn, no one calls that rodeo the "LA REC." It's always been, an' gonna be the "Anaheim CCD."
BTW, you haven't chimed in regarding me coming to USD in January. Are you afraid? Be very afraid. ;-)
And you can't even TELL anyone about it, because that's making a mental image, without asking permission, filling out a quadrillion forms, and paying a whopping fee.
Seriously, I think this is such a neat idea for a birthday card. You go, Pes.
By the way, Pes, the popular song, "Happy Birthday To You", is still under copyright; Summy-Birchard Music, part of AOL Time Warner, is the rights holder.
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