This article explores the history and significance of the popular New Year's song, 'Auld Lang Syne,' including its meaning, origins, and enduring popularity.
As the clock strikes midnight and the world ushers in 2025, revelers around the globe will sing ' Auld Lang Syne ,' a song about 'old acquaintance be forgot' and, well, other lyrics people may not recall from the New Year's song. The song's origins date back to an 18th-century Scottish ballad, with Auld Lang Syne eventually becoming a New Year's celebration staple. Experts explained the song's lyrics, origin and staying power.
What does 'auld lang syne' mean?Roughly translated, the phrase means 'old long since,' or 'for old time's sake.' The song title is actually in Scots language, which is similar to English, according to Scotland's national tourist board. 'Auld Lang Syne' can be literally translated as 'Old Long Since,' but the literal English does not give a sense of what it means to a user of Scots, where it refers to a shared past underpinning the current relationships of a family, community or professional/social association,' Professor Murray Pittock, a literary historian with the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow, told CBS News. 'As such it is more evocative, nostalgic and communally unifying than any simple English equivalent.' What are the song's origins?Today's song comes from a publication by Scottish poet Robert Burns. The poet was trying to preserve Scottish language and culture after Scotland and England formed the United Kingdom, according to Scotland's national tourist board. So he traveled the country and collected old Scots poetry and songs, including 'Auld Lang Syne.' Burns said in one of the letters on view that he listened to an old man singing the song and that it had never been in print or in manuscript until he wrote it down from that old man singing,' Christine Nelson, who once curated an exhibition on the song at the Morgan Library in Manhattan, told CBS News in 2012.The song Burns wrote down can be traced back to 'Auld Kyndness Forgot,' which was preserved in a manuscript from 1568, Pittock said
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