Auld Lang Syne
I've always been a fan of Robbie Burns...even if he was a bit off his trolley. See this for an example.
Robbie Burns enters my life every year at the tail end...around midnight on December 31. There is an intense sorrow that pervades this song and yet, it is sung at some of the biggest parties ever thrown. I've never been able to handle that. Here's the 411 for those of you not "in the know."
"Auld Lang Syne" is Gaelic and roughly translated it means "Old Long Ago." We would now say something along the lines of the "Good Old Days." The song had been sung as early as the beginning of the 18th century and Robert Burns came along and put it altogether and we sing his version to this day. Must of been one of his best laid plans...
The basic premise of the song is that should all our old friends be gone, dead, or forgotten, should all we have been gone, we'll hold hands together and take a "cup of kindness" and drink to auld lang syne . Though we be left with naught, we drink to the good old days. We being me and my "trusty friend." It is a song that express a deep longing and love for what has gone and the warm memories we have of it...and at this time of year, nostalgia suits me.
So here's to the good old days. Take a cup of kindness, gather those you love and drink, to auld lang syne. And if you see a guy leaving the fray at midnight when the band strikes up...leave him be. He's probably touched and crying and doesn't want anyone to see. He's OK. He'll come back...he always does.
Happy New Year.
Robbie Burns enters my life every year at the tail end...around midnight on December 31. There is an intense sorrow that pervades this song and yet, it is sung at some of the biggest parties ever thrown. I've never been able to handle that. Here's the 411 for those of you not "in the know."
"Auld Lang Syne" is Gaelic and roughly translated it means "Old Long Ago." We would now say something along the lines of the "Good Old Days." The song had been sung as early as the beginning of the 18th century and Robert Burns came along and put it altogether and we sing his version to this day. Must of been one of his best laid plans...
The basic premise of the song is that should all our old friends be gone, dead, or forgotten, should all we have been gone, we'll hold hands together and take a "cup of kindness" and drink to auld lang syne . Though we be left with naught, we drink to the good old days. We being me and my "trusty friend." It is a song that express a deep longing and love for what has gone and the warm memories we have of it...and at this time of year, nostalgia suits me.
So here's to the good old days. Take a cup of kindness, gather those you love and drink, to auld lang syne. And if you see a guy leaving the fray at midnight when the band strikes up...leave him be. He's probably touched and crying and doesn't want anyone to see. He's OK. He'll come back...he always does.
Happy New Year.
posted by rOmiLaYu at 10:42 PM
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to the Good Old Days.
to Today.
to the Days to Come.
that's what I drink to.
leave my sentances alone.
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