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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (Phew, we made it!)

 "NEW YEAR'S EVE"
© Bill Burnett and Peggy Sarlin

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New Year's Eve has got to be the weirdest of holidays. Unlike most others, which commemorate  someone's birth, or celebrate of the end of a war, or the beginning of a season, or some kind of big religious or philosophical event or concept, New Year's Eve is all about the passage of time. Which is a pretty dreary subject, when you get right down to it.  That's why I think there are no real New Year's songs.  "What Are You Doing New Year's" and "Auld Lang Syne" are about it, right?  So Peggy Sarlin and I took a stab at capturing the ambiguous nature of the holiday in this song and I thought it was appropriate to trot it out for this combination new year and new decade.  Please, let me know what you think of it...

 

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Reader Comments (12)

Hey Bill:

Wonderful song, my friend! I wish you and yours all the best in the New Year!

December 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRich Ferguson

You go, Bill! Made my "eve." If you can make something beautiful, God bless you. - Eliza.

December 31, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterEliza Newlin Carney

Thanks for mining the mine, Bill!

January 1, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterElise Morris

Hey Bill! I'll say New Years is ambiguous.
When the subject of New Years Eve comes up, I often think of a photograph from the late 20's of a group of happy and very attractive bar patrons. Nary a one standing now. But every NY is full of hope, the year is like a slow heartbeat of earthly life, the blood is moving, we're transforming...becoming something that we don't know yet...and we raise our glass to that.
LOVE
Jennie

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