Goodbye to the Old Year

The sleigh bells jin­gle in their glee

The joy­ous child­ren shout;

And so with harm­less rev­el­ry

The good old year goes out;

For God

who in the year gone by

Hath blessed us ev­ery day

And led us through its flow­ery path

And win­ter’s snowy way.

The sleigh bells jin­gle in their glee

The joy­ous child­ren shout;

And so with harm­less rev­el­ry

The good old year goes out.

Our hearts are mer­ry as the bells

While

with our voic­es clear

We sing the song that hope fore­tells

And wel­come the New Year.

For God

who in the year gone by

Did bless us ev­ery day

Will lead us in the steps we take

Along our for­ward way.

Then jin­gle

jin­gle

clear and sweet

Each voice and bell in tune;

The years run on with hur­ry­ing feet

Now win­ter

and now June.

But God doth give us all the year

And all the years we’ll sing

They lead us to a coun­try where

The whole year long is spring.