Posted: 12/31/2008 10:39:22 PM EDT
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"Good morning to you, Sir.
We wish you a happy New Year, Great health, long life, Which God may bestow So long as you stay here below. May he bestow the house you are in Where you go out and you go in Time by moments steal away First the hour and then the day Small the lost days may appear But yet they soon amount to a year. This another year is gone And now it is no more of our own But if it brings our promises good As the year before the flood But let none of us forget It has left us much in debt A favor from the Lord received Since which our spirits hath been grieved. Marked by the unerring hand Thus in his book our records stands. Who can tell the vast amount Placed to each of our accounts? But while you owe the debt is large You may plead a full discharge. But poor and selfish sinners, say' What can you to justice pay? Trembling last for life is past and into prison you may be cast Happy is the believing soul. Christ for you has paid the whole. We have this New Year's morning called you by your name And disturbed you from by your rest. And if it be your desire Our guns and pistols they shall fire. Since we hear of no defiance You shall hear the art of Science. When we pull trigger and powder burns You shall hear the roaring of guns. Oh, daughters of righteousness, we will rise And warm our eyes and bless our hearts, For the old years gone and the New Year's come And for good luck we'll fire out guns Local Tradition here. Thought I would share, after the chant, muskets are fired to ward off evil spirits. |
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Here is the town by my town that also does it. They came to our party at 1am. |