About The Song

“Happy New Year” is a song by the Swedish group ABBA from their 1980 album Super Trouper. The song was originally released as a single in December of that year. The song’s working title was “Daddy Don’t Get Drunk on Christmas Day” . The song has lead vocals by Agnetha Fältskog. The song is about the end of a year and the beginning of a new year, with the lyrics wishing for a better future. The song has been remastered in HD and is available on YouTube. The official lyric video of the song is also available on YouTube. A live performance of the song was recorded in Stockholm on November 27, 1980, and is known as “ABBA Around the Piano” . The song has been covered by various artists and has been used in several movies and TV shows.

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Lyrics

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It’s the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now’s the time for us to say…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he’ll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he’s astray
Keeps on going anyway…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and I

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It’s the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we’ll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and I