New Year Song by Richard Mekdeci

Here's a great song to add to your New Year repertoire! Thanks to Richard Mekdeci for writing it, and giving us permission to share it!

Here are the lyrics:

Here’s To Life (The Toast)      3:23

“I hope you enjoy this ‘bonus track’ which was not on the original STP.  It was the winner of the Song Spree Songwriting contest in Nashville in 1999 and has become one of my signature songs for the new year or any anniversary.”

When the holidays are over, history grows another year older.

Starting with a midnight wish, we’ll raise our glass and reminisce;

Another year behind us, and a brand new year ahead.

Here’s to life, it’s another year long.

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Here’s to friends, old and new, here and gone.

To the lessons we’ve learned and the bridges we’ve burned,

Here’s to auld lang syne.

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Here’s to peace in our world far and near.

And to our health: I’m just glad we’re all here.

To the tears that were cried and the love that survived

And to all, a happy New Year!

c. 1999 Itoi Music