Simply Red

Wave the Old World goodbye
It's time to say hello to the New World
Praying it will be right
That the world may soon see the light
I'll be waving, oh waving
And I'll be waiting...

Sure the old folks have tried
But now it's time for us in the New World
Pray that it will be right
That the earth don't turn out the lights

Wave the Old World goodbye
It's time to say 'goodnight' to the Old World
Let's pray that it will be right
So the world will soon see the light

I'll be waving, oh waving
And I'll be waiting, oh waiting this night

It's time to say 'goodnight' to the Old World
It's time to say 'hello' to the New World
And wave the Old World goodbye....

I'll be waving, oh waving
And I'll be waiting, oh waiting this night

It's time to say 'goodnight' to the Old World
Time to say to say 'hello' to the New World
And wave the Old World goodbye... tonight

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band. The first incarnation of the band was a punk group called The Frantic Elevators, whose seven-year run produced limited releases on local labels and ended in 1984 upon critical acclaim for their final single, “Holding Back the Years”.

By early 1985, Mick Hucknall and manager Elliot Rashman had assembled a band of local session musicians and begun to attract record company attention. The group adopted the name “Red” (after Hucknall’s nickname, denoting his hair colour) but then Mick decided it would sound better with the addition of the word ‘Simply.’

Since the mid 1980s, the band has sold more than 50 million albums.

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