It's New Year's Eve.

♪ It's the ending of the old year ♪

♪ The beginning of the new ♪

♪ There's lots of fun to have tonight ♪

♪ And lots of things to do ♪

♪ We're gonna have a countdown with everybody here ♪

♪ And then they'll shout out real, real loud ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy, happy, happy new year ♪

♪ It's the one night of the year ♪

♪ Elmo gets to stay up late ♪

♪ Yeah, baby, come on ♪

♪ We're all up way past bedtime ♪

♪ I know; isn't it great, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ And even though it's nighttime ♪

♪ We all are still allowed ♪

♪ To make a lot of noisy noise and shout out real, real loud ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy, happy, happy new year ♪

♪ Making wishes for the new year's what this night's about ♪ ♪ That's right ♪

♪ And when the new year's here ♪♪ Then we will laugh and shout ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy new year ♪

♪ Happy, happy, happy new year ♪

♪ Happy, happy, happy new year ♪

Elmo can stay awake.