Birthday Dirge Trivia

So I'm listenting to Glenn Miller's Lost Recordings, and there is a piece called "Song of the Volga Boatmen".

As I listened, I realized I had heard "Happy Birthday" sung to this melody growing up in western New York in the late 70's (that's several years earlier than the references I found on the net).

It turns out this is a fairly common thing (although MP3s of this version are not - probably because of urban non-myth about ownership of the copyright and residuals of "Happy Birthday").

This version goes by a lot of names: the birthday dirge, the mongolian/barbarian birthday song, and the SCA birthday song. Here's a snippet: