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ABBA: "Happy New Year"

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» Ordered by Danila Moseev
± BPM (tempo): ♩ = 133 beats per minute

Lyrics and Music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Intro: G | G
       G | G  } 2 times

G           Am₇
No more champagne
        G             Bm
And the fireworks are through.
        C           G
Here we are, me and you,
        Am₇              D
Feeling lost and feeling blue.
         G          Cm
It’s the end of the party,
        G                Bm
And the morning seems so grey,
     C          G
So unlike yesterday,
          Am₇            D
Now’s the time for us to say:

Chorus:
               G
     Happy New Year!
               B₇
     Happy New Year!
                Em
     May we all have
       C              E₇
     A vision now and then
     Of a world
                                  Am    D
     Where every neighbour is a friend.
               G
     Happy New Year!
               B₇
     Happy New Year!
                Em
     May we all have
         C                  E₇
     Our hopes, our will to try:
     If we don’t
                                   Am   D
     We might as well lay down and die,
             Am D
     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,
      C              G
Never knowing he’s astray,
         Am₇      D
Keeps on going anyway:

Chorus:
     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,
     Am D    G
     You and I.

Instrumental: G | G
              G | G  } 2 times

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,
          C                G
What lies waiting down the line
       Am₇           D
In the end of eighty-nine:

Chorus:
     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,
     Am D    G
     You and I.

Instrumental: G | G
              G | G  } 2 times
              G

Finger notations of chords (guitar)