Birthday Greeting Happy Birthday to You

Edward Lear, our most constant patron, points out that it is all well and good to have birthdays that end with zeros or even with fives, however, few birthdays come so easily packaged. He suggests that a plethora of limericks should be wrought for the 80% of birthday celebrations and birthday toasts which are required for a goodly collection. And, in fact, "Goodie, " as in "Goodie Edwards" was a venerated nickname for women in Colonial Times, which tickles us, but I digress. Here is an index and limericks for the twenties are at the bottom of the page.

Birthdays

16th Birthday
Age Three Invitations and Greetings
A Birthday Funny Poem for the Forties
A Birthday Limerick for the Thirties Decade?
Birthday Party Planning is Fun!
30th Birthday Poems
50th Birthday Poems Jokes
60th Birthday Toasts for Free
70th Birthday
Birthday Greeting Happy Birthday to You
Birthday Invitation Ideas
Birthday Limericks for the 50s
Birthday Poems for Parents
Forgot Your Birthday
Free Birthday Poems for Kids
Funny Birthday Poems
Funny Personalized Birthday Poems
Happy Birthday Mom Quotes Poems
Our Guest Limericists
Older Than Dirt

(good grief, this partial sitemap for Here Be Limerick Poems is long)

Well, our Kathleen believes in giving the customer what she requires, and accordingly, "Odd Birthdays" has come about. There may be, perhaps, a distressing similarity in the doggerel therein, for "thirty" so nicely fits with the same meter served by "twenty," and "forty" similarly preserves the rhythm where "thirty" might go (etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, to quote Yul Brenner). Seventy rather threw a sabot in the works, from whence comes the term, "sabotage," but we digress yet again. Those were tardy in coming, but the 70th birthday shipment (ages 70-79) has at long arrived and we shall now have to revoke the holding pattern previously extended to those of you who were sixty-nine.

21st Birthday

You're adult now, and want to have fun
The years have flown by, twenty-one
Is a milestone, but note
That your judgment's inchoate,
Remember you're still underdone.

Twenty-two

Our birthday girl(guy) is twenty-two
A great opportunity you
Won't want to miss
So join us in this,
Party for our motley crew.

Twenty-three

Our birthday girl(boy) is twenty-three
We were hoping that you would be free
To climb in your car
And come just as you are
For a casual party soiree.

We shall start with the twenties, and soon add the thirties, up through the sixties, wherein those in their seventies shall have to wait for service, since those years are more troublesome, and the difficult patron is always served last, isn't he? Then we shall pick up with the eighties and so forth until we have left only few patrons in want of feting.

Surely, as so many now exercise regularly and take anti-oxidants, we shall eventually come to one hundred if we do not find ourselves all birthdayed out so to speak. In the meantime, we consider special requests for a birthday greeting.

Twenty-four

Our birthday girl(boy) is twenty-four
But anyway, who's keeping score?
It's a chance for a shindig
So come take a spin and pig
Out on gourmet food galore.

A Birthday Greeting for Twenty-six

Our birthday girl(boy) is twenty-six
So let's all get together and mix
Oh, the fat we will chew
With a good wine or brew
And the doldrums that we'll eighty-six!

More: Birthday Greetings and Happy Birthday to You

Twenty-seven

Such an odd year, that strange twenty-seven
Is still good excuse for some leaven
Of fun for the taking
So join us in making
The neighbors believe we're stone-deaf then.

Twenty-eight

Our birthday girl(guy/boy) is twenty-eight
That's cause enough to celebrate
So come to our house
And help the guy(girl) grouse
About "The Big 0" on her(his) plate.

And so on: Birthday Greetings and Happy Birthday to You

Twenty-nine

The day you become twenty-nine
Enjoy it! You're marking the time
When you'll wake up thirty
Those round numbers hurt, we
Advise you to note the time-line.

Variation: Twenty-nine

Those birthdays which end in a nine
Are hard ones, so join us this time
To honor our hero
Next year's ends in zero
She'll(he'll) be under the covers, supine.

We have rather run out of the twenties and of course that means the thirties have become inevitable, but as you go receive our blessing, and a Happy Birthday to You from all of Us Here!

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