At midnight on New Year's Eve, revelers across the globe will sing "Auld Lang Syne," but not everyone knows the lyrics to the ...
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS Glasgow News 1 Today is New Year's Eve and for many people that means a night of Black-eyed peas, ...
"Auld Lang Syne" as we know it today first came together in the late 1700s, and wasn't initially a song for New Year's Eve.
Robert Burns wrote down the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne," and in the almost 250 years since, it's been cemented as the anthem ...
As “Auld Lang Syne” takes its annual spin around the globe on New Year’s Eve, its chorus belted out by revelers young and old, Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen says the song’s enduring power ...
Similar in sentiment to “Auld Lang Syne,” "The Parting Glass" recllaed times long past and honors old friends and bringing in ...
Penned by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788, Burns confessed that he had gathered the words after hearing an old man recite them during his travels. However, an earlier ballad titled 'Old Long Syne' ...
According to Scotland.org, the phrase 'auld lang syne' roughly translates as 'for old times' sake', and the song is all about preserving old friendships and looking back over the events of the year." ...
Every New Year’s Eve, many of us will come to the realisation that we don’t actually know the words to “Auld Lang Syne”. Belting out the song as the clock strikes midnight is a long-held tradition in ...
You know the drill. As the New Year’s Eve countdown draws to a close, the ball drops, and, if we’re lucky, we finish our midnight kiss. Next up: someone inevitably queues up the familiar tune of “Auld ...
Auld Lang Syne is the closest thing the world has to a shared anthem. The farm steading where Robert Burns wrote it and ...
(NEXSTAR) – As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, you’ll hear “happy New Year,” and then these lyrics. “Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” the song goes. “Should ...