first sung New Years Eve 2020, fifteen minutes before midnight
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Social distance, isolation, and my friends far from my side
And I spent oh so many nights thinking how this year's gone wrong
Then I found songs, and I learned how to get along
Now look at us, with this year through
We can feel our friends' embraces from six feet apart, it's true
And though you've put us all through hell, we'll still be out there on the green
We'll be singing all our songs knowing soon we'll all be free
Go on now, go, walk out the door
The year is turning now: you're not welcome anymore
You're the year that tried to kill us with your virus and your lies
You think we'd crumble? You think we'd lay down and die?
Oh no, not I, I will survive
Oh, as long as I know how to sing, I know we'll stay alive
We've got all our lives to live, and we've got all our songs to give
And we'll survive, we will survive, hey, hey
It took all the strength we had not to fall apart
Until we found a way to sing that opened up our hearts
We'd spent oh so many nights just feeling sorry for ourselves
We used to cry, but now we raise our voices high
Most of this year's been a disgrace
But now it's time to put you in the past and sing Amazing Grace
We set a new course in November, showed what "we the people" means
And soon we'll have a fighting chance with Tony Fauci and vaccines
Go on now, go, walk out the door ...
Oh no, not I, I will survive ...
Go on now, go, walk out the door ...
Oh no, not I, I will survive ...
recording: Town Common Songs (recorded 1 January 2021) [YouTube]