The Children's Hymnbook ‎#185

185. We wish you many happy returns of the day!

1 We wish you many happy returns of the day!
We hope you may be health and strong all the way,
Strong to do right,
Slow to do wrong,
And thoughtful of others all the day long.

2 We wish you many happy returns of the day!
May God the Lord protect you in work and in play,
Watching in love
All that you do
And leading your footsteps all the year through.

Text Information

• First Line: We wish you many happy returns of the day!
• Author: Percy Dearmer, 1837-1936
• Author (st. 2): Marie J. Post (1961)
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1962
• Copyright: © J. Curwen and Songs, Ltd., from "Song Time"
• Notes: Now Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: BIRTHDAY
• Composer: Martin Shaw (1915)
• Key: D Major
• Copyright: © J. Curwen and Songs, Ltd., from "Song Time"