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"Auld Lang Syne" (Scots pronunciation: [ˈɔːl(d) lɑŋ ˈsəi̯n]) [a] [1] is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world , it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay / New Year's Eve .
CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my jo,for auld lang syne,we’lltak‘ a cup o’ kindness yet,for auld lang syne. And surely ye’ll be your pint-stoup! And surely I’ll be mine! And we’ll tak' a ...
As a song, “Auld Lang Syne” first became popularized in the U.S. in 1929, when bandleader Guy Lombardo and his brothers performed it, Alexander said. The brothers had a band, The Royal ...
Where does "Auld Lang Syne" come from? The "Auld Lang Syne" song lyrics we know (or pretend to know) today are derived from a late-18th century poem by Scottish bard Robert Burns (1759–1796).
"Auld Lang Syne" (solo) Sissel Kyrkjebø Robert Burns: 2008 [132] "Auld Lang Syne" Sissel Kyrkjebø, Peter Jöback: Robert Burns: 2004 [133] "Ave Maria" Sissel Kyrkjebø, Taro Ichihara: Johann Sebastian Bach, Charles Gounod: 1994 [134] "Ave Maris Stella" Sissel Kyrkjebø trad. 2006 [135] "Baby, It's Cold Outside" Sissel Kyrkjebø Frank Loesser ...
Patrick Weston Joyce, in his Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909), gives the tune with a different text under the name "Sweet Cootehill Town," noting, "The air seems to have been used indeed as a general farewell tune, so that—from the words of another song of the same class—it is often called 'Good night and joy be with you all.'" [23 ...
Guy Lombardo popularized "Auld Lang Syne" in the United States, with broadcasts of his band, the Royal Canadians, playing on the rooftop of New York City's Roosevelt Hotel from 1929 to 1959, then ...
John Masey Wright and John Rogers' c. 1841 illustration of Auld Lang Syne. The Hogmanay custom of singing "Auld Lang Syne" has become common in many countries. "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem by Robert Burns, based on traditional and other earlier sources. It is common to sing this in a circle of linked arms crossed over one another as the ...