CHORUS

Let's make the new year

Far from a blue year,

No need to think,

Just sing and drink good cheer!

Drown all your sorrow,

Live for tomorrow,

Just drift along

With wine and song,

Tonight no folly could be wrong,

So drink and be merry,

Here's where we bury

All thought of gloom,

We have no room for killjoys!

New Year, we greet you,

Let us entreat you

To bring good luck, good cheer,

Good fortune to those

Who welcome you as we all do.

We have no room for thoughts of gloom,

Send them to an eternal doom!

For life keeps compelling us

And temptingly telling us

That youth can never last

As long as we'd like it to.

So we're persuading you

To stop its evading you

And let it not slip past,

Try to hold to it fast.

Why should we remember December?

The old year's done,

The happy new year has begun!

Just keep on dreaming and scheming

To make your life

A perfect round of wonderful fun!

Why should anyone be blue?

Life is full of things to do!

Let's just be jolly in folly,

Supremely gay

To speed the old year away!



BASSES

New Year's resolutions,

Dear old institutions,

E'er the dawn we make them,

In the morning break them.

Promises of virtue

Surely will not hurt you.

Whisper them discretely,

Earnestly and sweetly.



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