AULD LANG SYNE

David McQuillan

I finally decided I should try and do better than just humm hum humm after the first verse. Here I've got what I think are the verses as they are normally sung hereabouts, plus links to some sites which go into the background, translation and the numerous variants and spellings far better than I ever could.

Then again maybe I'm missing the point - humming along not knowing the words does sort of go along with maudlin and a few drinks. Note that singing “For the sake of Auld Lang Syne” is anaethma to purists never mind my writing ‘old’ for ‘auld’. My apologies to them - I know I’m a philistine, I just try to sing whatever the people round me sing and I probably mix in the wrong circles.

Auld Lang Syne (Old long since, times gone by)

by Rabbie Burns, or at least wholly
transformed by him into what we have today.

The Oxford Book of English Verse What I'd sing

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
    And days o' lang syne? Should old acquaintance be forgot,
    And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
    And days of old lang syne?
CHORUS
For auld lang syne, my dear,
    For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
    For auld lang syne. CHORUS
For old lang syne, my dear,
    For old lang syne,
We'll take a cup of kindness yet,
    For old lang syne.
(or maybe 'For the sake of old lang syne')
We twa hae rin about the braes,
    And pu'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit
    Sin' auld lang syne.
CHORUS And here's a ha

Auld Lang Syne	(Old long since, times gone by)
by Rabbie Burns, or at least wholly transformed by him into what we have today.
The Oxford Book of English Verse	What I'd sing
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne?	Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, And days of old lang syne?
CHORUS For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet For auld lang syne.	CHORUS For old lang syne, my dear, For old lang syne, We'll take a cup of kindness yet, For old lang syne. (or maybe 'For the sake of old lang syne')
We twa hae rin about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine; But we've wander'd monie a weary fit Sin' auld lang syne. CHORUS	And here's a ha