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"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" or "For She's a Jolly Good Fellow" (depending on gender) is sung to congratulate someone.  It’s often sung after an event such as a promotion, birthday, wedding, a wedding anniversary, birth of a child, or the winning of a championship sporting event. According to the Guinness World Records, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is the second-most popular song in the English language, following "Happy Birthday to You" (see our video https://youtu.be/0nQYxVwZ5AY) and followed by "Auld Lang Syne”(see our video https://youtu.be/-YnoIy5pgVA )

The melody originates from the French song "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" ("Marlborough Has Left for the War"). The traditional children's song “The Bear Went Over the Mountain” is sung to the same tune. It dates at least from the 18th century and was probably composed in 1709 the night after the Battle of Malplaquet. It was popularized by Marie Antoinette after she heard one of her maids singing it, and became so well known in France that  Beethoven actually used the melody to represent the French defeat in his 1813 composition "Wellington's Victory" Opus 91.

The melody crossed the English Channel and became widely popular in the United Kingdom. By the mid-19th century it was being sung at all-male social gatherings with the words "For he's a jolly good fellow". By 1862, it had crossed the Pacific Ocean and was familiar in America.

The British and American versions of the lyrics differ. "And so say all of us" is typically British, while "which nobody can deny" is regarded as the American version. However, the song has been included in a number of English literary works using the American lyric "which nobody can deny”, including Charles Dickens in “Household Words”, Hugh Stowell Brown in “Lectures to the Men of Liverpool” and James Joyce in “Finnegans Wake”. In addition, the 1935 American film “Ruggles of Red Gap”, set in rural Washington state, ends with repeated choruses of “For He’s Jolly Good Fellow”, with the two variations sung alternately. This may have been chosen by the writer or director because while the crowd singing it is almost completely American, the person they are singing it about is British.

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