HAPPY NEW YEAR - ABBA 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  two thousand eleven  ...

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

WORDS OF WISDOM

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. - Anonymous




If you can read this, thank a teacher - Anonymous Teacher

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. Joseph Brodsky

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading - B.F. Skinner


When the student is ready, the master appears - Buddhist  Proverb




Once you learn to read, you will be forever free - Frederick  Douglass





We read to know we are not alone. - C. S. Lewis


No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance - Confucius






A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy - Edward  P.  Morgan








The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries - Descartes