Happy New Year Gung Hay Fat Choy

Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new dawn Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new dawn. Sweep away your cares, a new day now is born. Brush away the sad, we are glad, time to move on. Brush away your fears on a fresh new year morn.

Happy New Year! Ev’rybody sing! Soon it will be spring.

Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new morn Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new morn. Brush away your cares, a new day now is born.

Spoken solo: My cloth dragon sways from side to side…chasing a sun ball while small children hide. My brother plays a drum, my father the gong, and mother and sister….join in the song. Firecrackers pop and evil spirits flee, as lion dancers dance so menacingly. Happy New Year! Or Gung Hay Fat Choy! Sweep out your sorrows. It’s time now for joy!

Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new dawn Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new dawn. Sweep away your cares, a new day now is born. Brush away the sad, we are glad, time to move on. Brush away your fears on a fresh new year morn.

Happy New Year! Ev’rybody sing! Soon it will be spring.

Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new morn Sweep away the old, it’s a new year, a new morn. Brush away your cares, a new day now is born.