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Depending on whether Tu or Youyou is her "first" name for the song it will be:
"Happy birthday to Tu"
Or
"Happy birthday to Youyou"
Both have repetition that is likely to trip up a lot of people.
People always get mixed up regardless, people refer to people by different names like nicknames or relationship like 'mom' so when you get to the name part its always some funny mix
"Happy birthday to Carol/Caroline/Slut/Mom!"
Yeah, that checks out.
Good ol' brigadier general Caroline Slutmom 😁🫡
Slutmom sounds like a British village with an unfortunate name like Cockthorpe.
"Did you know Cockthorpe has a church?"
Yep, either way if you are singing Happy Birthday to her, you likely know her well enough to know her name well and sing it with no problem.
The singers could be staff at a restaurant who are not familiar with her...
Tu is her first name, and it's "dear", not "to". So it would be "Happy birthday, dear Tu".