{"id":17319,"date":"2025-07-07T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=17319"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T21:16:21","slug":"lyrics-happy-birthday-2-u-lowen-navarro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=17319","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics: Happy Birthday 2 U [Lowen &#038; Navarro]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/userpicsheriffjohn.jpg\" \/>OK, Folks, you know the drill. Allright everyone, let\u2019s gather in front of our large, 13\u2033, Black and White TV set, and watch as a tall, lanky man in a khaki uniform strides out, introduces himself as Sheriff John, pulls out his guitar, and sings:<\/p>\n<p>Look at my watch<br \/>\nThe hands are spinning<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying not to pay attention at all<br \/>\nLook in the mirror<br \/>\nMy hair is thinning<br \/>\nLike pages on the calendar<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s starting to fall<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, baby<br \/>\nThe clock keeps ticking now<br \/>\nWhat can you do<br \/>\nJust put down the gun<br \/>\nAnd blow out the candles<br \/>\nSinging happy happy birthday to you<\/p>\n<p>Just my luck<br \/>\nI&#8217;m another year older<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no smarter than I was before<br \/>\nJust my fate<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no use complaining<br \/>\nNobody listens to you anymore<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, baby<br \/>\nThe clock keeps ticking now<br \/>\nWhat can you do<br \/>\nJust put down the gun<br \/>\nAnd blow out the candles<br \/>\nSinging happy happy birthday to you<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s your birthday<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;re finally 21<br \/>\nPretty soon you&#8217;ll turn 30<br \/>\nAnd then you&#8217;ll push 40<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll build up a good head of steam<br \/>\nand then you&#8217;ll hit . . . 50!<br \/>\nAnd at that point, man, you&#8217;re<br \/>\nOnly middle aged<br \/>\nIf you live to be a hundred<br \/>\nThink about that one<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, baby<br \/>\nThe clock keeps ticking now<br \/>\nWhat can you do<br \/>\nJust put down the gun<br \/>\nAnd blow out the candles<br \/>\nSinging happy happy birthday to you<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJkzsqIKajk\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, Folks, you know the drill. Allright everyone, let\u2019s gather in front of our large, 13\u2033, Black and White TV set, and watch as a tall, lanky man in a khaki uniform strides out, introduces himself as Sheriff John, pulls out his guitar, and sings: Look at my watch The hands are spinning I&#8217;m trying <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=17319\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":5245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17320,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17319\/revisions\/17320"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}