The Cherryville Shooters of Cherryville, NC has been a New Years eve tradition in the southern Piedmont of North Carolina for over 250 years, and other parts of the country before then, too. The shooters fire of rifle shots (using black powder blanks) to ring in the New Years in various places in and around Cherryville. Associated with the event is the "Chant of the New Years Shooters"

Good morning* to you, sir**. We wish you a happy New Year,
Great health, long life, which God may bestow
So long as you stay here below. May he bestow the house you're in,
Where you go out and you go in. Time by moments steals away,
First the hour and then the day. Small the lost days may appear,
But they soon mount up to a year. Thus another year is gone,
And now it is no more of our own, but if it brings our promises good
As the year before the flood, but let none of us forget
It has left us much in debt, a favor from the Lord received
Since which our spirits hath been grieved. Marked by the unerring hand,
Thus in His book our record stands. Who can tell the vast amounts
Placed to each our accounts? But while you owe the debt is large,
You may plead a full discharge. But poor and selfish sinners say,
What can you to justice pay? Trembling last for life is past
And into prison you may be cast. Happy is the believing soul,
Christ for you has paid the whole. We have this New Year's morning*
Called you by your name, and disturbed you from your rest,
But we hope no harm by the same. As we ask, come tell us your desire,
And if it be your desire, our guns and pistols they shall fire.
Since we hear of no defiance, you shall hear the art of science.
When we pull trigger and powder burns, you shall hear the roaring of our guns;
Oh, daughters of righteousness, we will rise and warm our eyes
And bless our hearts, for the old year's gone and the New Year's come
And for good luck, we'll fire our guns!

*morning or evening depending on time of day
**sir or miss depending on gender

From http://www.cherryvilleshooters.com/History-Chant.php
You can hear a recording from that website, or here

If you're interested in the tradition, you can watch a video of the tradition (as well as hear several more renditions of the chant) here, and read more about it here, though some searching will turn up plenty of other links.