| From Si’s occasional (every 2 to 4 weeks) enewsletter. Subscribe here. All the best for the New Year Here’s a toast to the New Year, and to all of you for whom my music has mattered. May 2022 be a happy, musical year for you and yours, with a little more peace and justice and much more health for this battered world we share. My wish for all of you for the coming year comes in the form of my song “New Year’s Eve” from my very first album New Wood, released all the way back in 1975 as an LP on June Appal records, part of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and re-released as a CD in 1994 (Rounder/Philo 1168, also out of print). You can read the lyrics below. This year we travel across the pond to present a version of “New Year’s Eve” by the Scottish brother band The McCalmans, from their 1993 Greentrax Records album Honest Poverty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIma6ovjRg8 “New Year’s Eve” (c) Si Kahn, Joe Hill Music LLC (ASCAP) I have seen you tossing restless Between midnight and day Paying back the debts of many years Staring out the window ’Till the mist has burned away Waiting for the sun to dry your tears I’ve seen you young I’ve seen you old I’ve seen you lost and found I’ve seen you sit and cry Without a sound I’ve seen you in the lamplight With the hard lines in your face The shadows of your fears upon the wall But crying is no weakness To lose is no disgrace You see we’re not so different after all You can tell By the ringing bell The old year’s moving on I’d like to say one thing Before it’s gone May whatever house you live in Have flowers by the door Children in the bed to keep you warm May the people there accept you For who you really are Help you find some shelter in the storm And morning rain To ease the pain That comes with being free May the New Year bring you freedom Peacefully |
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