Full Lyrics 'Happy New Year' by ABBA

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"Happy New Year" is a song by Swedish group ABBA from their 1980 album Super Trouper. The lead vocals are by Agnetha Fältskog. The song's working title was the more festive and humorous "Daddy Don't Get Drunk on Christmas Day".

Although written and recorded in 1980, the English-language version of the song was not released as a single in Europe until 1999 and charted at no. 34 in Sweden, no. 15 in the Netherlands,no. 75 in Germany,to promote the CD re-release of many of ABBA's singles.

Lyrics "Happy New Year"

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 neighbor 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 neighbor 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 neighbor 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

ABBA

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ABBA, the Swedish Europop group that was among the most commercially successful groups in the history of popular music. In the 1970s it dominated the European charts with its catchy pop songs. Members included songwriter and keyboard player Benny Andersson, songwriter and guitarist Björn Ulvaeus, and vocalists Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

While ABBA produced an impressive number of hit singles, some of their most notable chart-topping songs are “Dancing Queen” (1976), “Super Trouper” (1980), and “Knowing Me, Knowing You” (1977). “Dancing Queen” stands apart for its induction into the Recording Academy’s Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.

Meaning of the song

In this song, ABBA wishes a Happy New Year to everyone. In the “meat” of the song (the chorus), the narrator ( Agnetha Fältskog ) hopes that in the New Year, the world would be a better place – a beautiful place “where every neighbor is a friend”.

In reality, the lyrics were not that cheerful:

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

The English version was only released many years later. So the sorrow of the lyrics went mostly unnoticed. But it contained a hint of disappointment with ideals of brotherhood and love. “May we all have a vision now and then, of a world where every neighbor is a friend […] “may we all have our hopes, our will to try if we don't we might as well lay down and die.”

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