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"Same Old Lang Syne" is a song written and recorded by Dan Fogelberg and released as a single in 1980. It was included on his 1981 album The Innocent Age.The song is an autobiographical narrative ballad told in the first person and tells the story of two long-ago romantic interests meeting by chance in a grocery store on Christmas Eve. [3]
For auld lang syne. “They sing it so quickly, but kindness is a word that is used in the ‘Auld Lang Syne’ in the chorus,” he said. “Really look at the lyrics and just start the new year ...
The phrase “for auld lang syne” essentially means “for (the sake of) old times”, which positions it as an apt song to sing at a time when people reflect on the past 12 months.
The Innocent Age is a double album by American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg, released in 1981.It was one of his most successful albums: three of his four Top 10 singles on the Billboard pop chart ("Hard to Say" (no. 7), "Same Old Lang Syne" (no. 9), and "Leader of the Band" (no. 9)) were from this album, as well as another Top 20 single in "Run for the Roses" (no. 18).
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). ... so it is debatable if they could be ...
Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet; the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns's later poem, [7] and is almost certainly derived from the same "old song". To quote from the first stanza of the James Watson ballad:
Souvenirs is the second studio solo album by the American rock singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg.The album was released in late 1974, on the label Epic Records.The album reached No. 17 on the Billboard 200 in March 1975 and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
"Auld Lang Syne" directly translates to "old long since" in 18th-century Scots. This essentially means times gone by or "old times." ... The full original lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne" are: Should ...