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Every ukulele player should know how to play Happy Birthday. It's the one song we are all guaranteed of singing at least a few times a year, and it's one of the easiest to learn.
Here are three simple versions, all in the key of F. Playing in F means that the lowest note in the song is also the lowest note on a reentrant-tuned ukulele: the open C string. Thus we can pick out the melody using the three bottom strings and very little hand movement.
Method 1: Chords Only

This is the most basic arrangement of the song. Strum the chords and sing along.

F C7

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday, dear (you)

F C7 F

Happy Birthday to you

Method 2: Picking the Melody

Here is a simple melody version. It is laid out as if you are holding your uke ready to play, but have your fretboard turned toward you; thus, in GCEA tuning, the top line of dashes represents the "A" string, and the bottom line is the "G" string. A "0" indicates plucking the open string, and numbers show where you fret the string while plucking it.

|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|

|--------------|--1--0--------|--------------|--3---1-------|

|-0-0---2---0--|--------------|-0-0---2---0--|--------------|

|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|

Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you

|-------3---0--|--------------|-1-1---0------|--------------|

|--------------|--1----0------|-----------1--|--3--1--------|

|-0-0----------|----------2---|--------------|--------------|

|--—-----------|--------------|--------------|--------------|

Happy Birthday dear (yo-u) Happy Birthday to you

Method 3: Picking + Chords

Finally, we can combine the two methods of playing. The melody is picked, as above, but chords are also strummed at the end of each phrase.

F C7 C7 F

|--------------|--0--1--------|--------------|--1--0--------|

|--------------|--1--0--------|--------------|--0--1--------|

|-0-0---2---0--|--0--0--------|-0-0---2---0--|--0--0--------|

|--------------|--2--0--------|--------------|--0--2--------|

Happy Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you

Bb C7 F

|-------3---0--|----------1---|-1-1---0------|--1--0--------|

|--------------|--1----0--1---|-----------1--|--0--1--------|

|-0-0----------|----------2---|--------------|--0--0--------|

|--—-----------|----------3---|--------------|--0--2--------|

Happy Birthday dear (yo-u) Happy Birthday to you

Extra: "And many more..."

The arrow (->) shows a slide from the 2nd to 3rd fret; the tilde (~) is for vibrato.

|----------------|
|----------------|
|-0--2-0--2->3~~~|
|----------------|
and many more...
If you want to get extra fancy, make that slide into an F7 chord:
F7
|------------0---|
|------------1~~~|
|-0--2-0--2->3~~~|
|---------1->2~~~|

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