"Auld Lang Syne" — it's an old Scottish song first published by the poet Robert Burns in the 1796 edition of the book, "Scots Musical Museum," and it was bandleader Guy Lombardo, of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, who popularized the song and turned it into a New Year's tradition. According to Fact Monster, Lombardo played the song at midnight at a New Year's eve party at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City in 1929 and a tradition was born. And it's perhaps one of the most popular songs nobody knows the lyrics to.
Here's the English translation to the popular New Year's Eve song:
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And old lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup
And surely I’ll buy mine
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We two have run about the slopes
And picked the daisies fine
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot
Since auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We two have paddled in the stream
From morning sun till dine
But seas between us broad have roared
From auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne
And there’s a hand my trusty friend
And give us a hand o’ thine
And we’ll take a right good-will draught
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Is this song part of your New Year's Eve tradition? Tell us in comments.
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