h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7qCRQqOz63s

For those, like Paul, who can't properly access it, it's Happy New Year by Abba. I'm sure you'll be able to remember it for yourselves. Hope so, because I'd like it to be for you too.

Jabs

Thanks Jabs, I remember playing it on one of my sisters LP record many year ago.

Perhaps I could contribute something to this thread by creating a long New Year's Ode, which the rest of you could set to music of your choosing.

Here comes the New Year.
The old one was bad,
With free-falling markets,
To drive us all mad!

(Add more verses as you see fit. I will join in from time to time)

I am a bit of a weird looking tall Lancaster lad.
I am bit of a cad but it is only a passing fad.
Now and then when I;m sad, I get a little bit drunk.
When I am drunk, I feel like that I turned into a skunk.
I then start shouting and listening to rock and punk.
After that I then start collecting lots of junk.
Then I feel sunk when I look in the large trunk.

Ring, New Year's bells.
Sing of the New Year, loud and long.
Gather in the New Year's dells
For a rousing New Year's song.

It won't be long before I have a wee dram.
I will toast my old pal Sam and my wee lamb.
In Scotland, New Year is called hogmanay.
I will bring out the fine wine of chardonnay.
I hear the bells ring out the chimes ding dong.
Oh what a beautiful song, let's join in the throng.
I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow town,
It will cause a few frowns when I am dressed in my posh gown.
i will not let it get me down as I wear my jewels and crown.
Let us celebrate the New Year with lots of cheer.
Drink to the brim with lots of lovely, premiere, beer.

The old year was bad
Where did all that money go?
Ans. it was never there in the first place
With a hi and a ho-ho-ho
Santa ain't living in the North Pole no more
He's firmly set
Living like the rest of us, in Debt
So ring out the old
Ring in the new
It can't be any worse
- We'll pull through

year in, year out, still skint, why shout

Be happy!

I wanna be happy this year.
I've toasted with eggnog and beer.
I've brought out the holly,
So all can be jolly.
I'm barbecuing some reindeer.

Let us all have some gold old cheer.
Don't fear, it will be great year.
I know a deer called Greer who has a career.
Greer the deer works as a part-time fusileer.
There are some merekats who are musketeers.
Molly said lets be jolly as she has a lot of lolly.
Polly the parrot is sitting on a folly with some holly.
I have got my brolly and some cauli and a tea trolley.
There is a border Collie who has been to Bali.
Let us cheer the new year and be cavalier.
I will go in high gear and play footie with a sphere.
Let's all go to the premiere and encounter the final frontier.

Israel bombs cluster bombs eyeless in Gaza sure
2009 make a new uphill your batch secure
Hopes high paybill for warcrimes wooing
Old year an oscillate passing dewing
Friends/ family/ cement wish tress
Step renewed madness
With warm and year cards send them
Straight into the fire send them
New accommodation with fate unpaid
As yet In 2009 as dogs of war play fusillade
Few hospitals, death on flame,
Preventable deaths of the mad and the sane
Lack supplies. Man screams for Allah in mortal pain.

Oh,
Let's celebrate another year,
The same as the last,
The one just before,
Here's a toast for the toast,
That's not quite so good,
For the cheap stuff that breaks,
Once it's out of the shops.
Here's a toast for another drear day,
When there's not enough time,
To do things your way.
Here's one for the bureaucrats,
They've no better to do,
Than make life much harder ,
For me and for you.
Raise your glass,
To the ones,
That don't like eccentric.
Who insist that it's better,
To be quite concentric.
Let us drink for the business,
That steals all your money,
And one for the con-man,
Called Smirk,
Who thinks that it's funny.
Let us honour the judge,
Whose belief that he's great,
And it's quite right for him,
To decide someone's fate.
Here's a glass for the war,
When there's nought else to do.
It's so entertaining,
Like disease and the flu.

But we all have our hopes,
So let's be optimistic,
And choose to be happy,
Whatever the weather.
For while we're alive,
It's still in our power,
To change what's not good,
And content through the showers.

Auld Langsign

There was a man,
His name was Lang,
And he was very old,
He had a sign,
A sandwich man,
And they called it Old Langs Sign.

When I drink too much wine, I start to wine.
Then I start to see swine mime in a formed line.
I then start to decline to drink anymore wine.
I go in a spin and start to malign at the pine.
Everyone links arms and start to sing auld lang syne.
Sydney is leaning next to a sign to the river Tyne.
Sydney starts to laugh and he tries to form a line.
He starts to shine but then he falls over some clover.
Sydney thinks he is Dover and moreover he some times is called Grover.

On the first day of New year's it was so very cold.
On the second day, I felt myself grow a day more old.
On the third day I realized that it would be my fate
To get to the 4th day, and still be running late. ,yikes>