Good cheer, good cheer, For a happy New Year

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Good cheer, good cheer, For a happy New Year

Author: P. P. Bliss
Tune: [Good cheer, good cheer!]
Published in 3 hymnals

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1 Good cheer, good cheer!
For a happy New Year
Is brightly smiling before us;
Let mercy bells ring,
Let happy hearts sing,
Good cheer, good cheer is the chorus.
A down the past,
One look we cast,
For friends and fancies olden;
Then forward glance,
And dream, perchance,
Of future days more golden.
Good cheer, good cheer!
For a happy New Year
Is brightly smiling before us,
Let merry bells ring,
Let happy hearts sing,
Good cheer, good cheer is the chorus.
Good cheer, good cheer!
For the glad and happy New Year!
Good cheer, good cheer!
For the glad and happy New Year.

2 Good cheer, good cheer!
For a happy New Year
Is brightly smiling before us;
Let merry bells ring,
Let happy hearts sing,
Good cheer, good cheer is the chorus.
In future years,
From smiles and tears,
Our lives shall luster gather,
And come what may,
We'll always say,
"Thy will be done, our Father."
Good cheer, good cheer!
For a happy New Year
Is brightly smiling before us,
Let merry bells ring,
Let happy hearts sing,
Good cheer, good cheer is the chorus.
Good cheer, good cheer!
For the glad and happy New Year!
Good cheer, good cheer!
For the glad and happy New Year.
Good cheer, good cheer, good cheer, good cheer, good cheer!

Source: Minnetonka Songs: for Sabbath Schools, compiled especially for the Minnetonka Sabbath-School Assembly #106

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Author: P. P. Bliss

Philip P. Bliss (b. Clearfield County, PA, 1838; d. Ashtabula, OH, 1876) left home as a young boy to make a living by working on farms and in lumber camps, all while trying to continue his schooling. He was converted at a revival meeting at age twelve. Bliss became an itinerant music teacher, making house calls on horseback during the winter, and during the summer attending the Normal Academy of Music in Genesco, New York. His first song was published in 1864, and in 1868 Dwight L. Moody advised him to become a singing evangelist. For the last two years of his life Bliss traveled with Major D. W. Whittle and led the music at revival meetings in the Midwest and Southern United States. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey published a popular series of hym… Go to person page >

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