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• The New Year is remembered and celebrated with songs and jokes. The song "Auld Lang Syne" was made famous by Guy Lombardo's New Year's Eve celebration, that aired from 1956-1976.

• Fast Facts

  1. New Year's Day is January 1
  2. In 2010, the New Year falls on Friday, January 1
  3. Many New Year's jokes revolve around New Year's resolutions.
  4. "Auld Lang Syne" is traditionally played or sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve
  5. The Wassailing song celebrates the New Year and refers to a spiced wine or aleCarols.org: The Wassail Song

• New Year Songs

  • "Auld Lang Syne"
  • "Ring the Bells"
  • "Hello New Year"
  • "Chinese New Year Song"
  • "Wassailing Song"
  • "Greek New Year Song"
  • "Rosh Hashanah Song"
  • "It's Just Another New Year's Eve"
  • "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve"

• "Wassailing Song"

  • Here we come a-wassailing
  • Among the leaves so green,
  • Here we come a-wand'ring
  • So fair to be seen.
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New Year.

  • We are not daily beggers
  • That beg from door to door,
  • But we are neighbors' children
  • Whom you have seen before
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New Year.

  • Good master and good mistress,
  • As you sit beside the fire,
  • Pray think of us poor children
  • Who wander in the mire.
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New Year

  • We have a little purse
  • Made of ratching leather skin;
  • We want some of your small change
  • To line it well within.
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New Year.

  • Bring us out a table
  • And spread it with a cloth;
  • Bring us out a cheese,
  • And of your Christmas loaf.
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New Year.

  • God bless the master of this house,
  • Likewise the mistress too;
  • And all the little children
  • That round the table go.
  • Love and joy come to you,
  • And to you your wassail, too,
  • And God bless you, and send you
  • A Happy New Year,
  • And God send you a Happy New YearCarols.org: The Wassail Song

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