It doesn't say "Oli Oxen free, it says Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me. Oli oxen free is something you say at the end of a hide and seek game to make the hidden players come out of hiding.

Looks like they couldn't come up with any intelligent lyrics, so why not use some 'dum' lyrics. (FACT - in the year this song was released (1975), the Eurovision Song Contest was won by a Dutch group with the song - wait for it - 'Ding Ding A Dong'.)

Okay, you love me. I get the picture. Fpur times would have been plenty.

Guys,ever get sick to death of numbers which paint women as just plain stupid when it comes to love?Dudes get it in the neck too with such numbers,but not nearly as often as women it seems,and,whilst there may be a few naive souls out there with regard to this thing,surely there is no way on Earth that the sexes in general,and the ladies especially, are anywhere near as daft in matters of the heart as this kind of number portrays them.A shining example is the I do,I do business by ABBA.The lady portrayed here could use a reality check.She starts out with Love me or leave me,make your choice.This goes on to phrases like-I love you-Do you love me?-No hard feelings if you don't-Let's give it a go and see what happens-Lets wait and see if we make this thing work or not.It seems to be obvious that that dude isn't in love with her,but she is purposely blinding herself to that painful realisation.She talks of being lonely all her life until meeting this guy,and goes on to say she's found love at last-Let's try it,I love you,can't deny it.The entire mode of speech is what comes from someone swallowing the bitter pill of denial,or,to put it more brutally,someone who has gone totally off their head due to,what sounds like to me,one of those totally irresponsible dudes who will string a woman along for a time,getting the bedroom treatment,then vanishing into the ether leaving a broken heart behind,for all this lady's talk of no hard feelings.Anyone as mixed up in the ways of love as the men and women under discussion,have plumbed the depths not only of irresponsibility to themselves and others,but also of the nonsensical.One of the greatest ironies here is that the number is sung so powerfully and so beautifully,complete with a wonderful musical backing-I first heard it back in the 70s and fell in love with it immediately,and still love the actual sound of it all.The trouble is that even nonsense can be made to sound electrifying.

'Building me a fence', makes this song nonsense.

Perhaps she should charter the jet next time...

If you look at the lyrics better you will find out that practicly whole song is misrhymed.

If this isn't the worst rhyme ever, I don't know what is. Did these guys even know English?

No you haven't.

Because Happy New Year was written in the year 1979 for ABBA's Super Trouper album and the lyrics refer to the end of a decade (the end of the 1970's) and then looks ahead to the end of 1989. So it now seems dated to hear that song with those lyrics.

Let me feel what exactly?!?! and don't conceal what you flithy women?!?!?!

WHOA THERE! Steady on, pussycat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Sigmund Freud

Well, She's proclaiming that she's a star (which is quite true) but doesn't necessarily need to be said

Refers to Waterloo, the town in present-day Belgium adjacent to the site of Napoleon's last battle.

Glasgow.