| instrumental | Asus2 E/A A6sus2 E/A |
| No more champagne and the fireworks are through | A Bdim A/C# C#m | |
| Here we are, me and you feeling lost and feeling blue | D A/C# Bm7 Esus4 E | |
| It's the end of the party and the morning seems so grey | A Bdim A/C# C#m | |
| So unlike yesterday now's the time for us to say... | D A/C# Bm7 Esus4 E |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have a vision now and then | F#m D | |
| Of a world where every neighbour is a friend | F#7 Bm E | |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have our hopes, our will to try | F#m D | |
| If we don't we might as well lay down and die | F#7 Bm | |
| You and I | E Bm E |
| 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 | D A/C# D A | |
| Keeps on going anyway... | Bm7 E |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have a vision now and then | F#m D | |
| Of a world where every neighbour is a friend | F#7 Bm E | |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have our hopes, our will to try | F#m D | |
| If we don't we might as well lay down and die | F#7 Bm | |
| You and I | E Bm E |
| instrumental | Asus2 E/A A6sus2 E/A |
| 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 eighty-nine... |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have a vision now and then | F#m D | |
| Of a world where every neighbour is a friend | F#7 Bm E | |
| Happy new year happy new year | A C#7 | |
| May we all have our hopes, our will to try | F#m D | |
| If we don't we might as well lay down and die | F#7 Bm | |
| You and I | E Bm E |