When the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing it in unison. Here's what to know about "Auld Lang Syne," the New Year's song.

Every New Year’s Eve, many of us will come to the realisation that we don’t actually know the words to “Auld Lang Syne”. Belting out the song as the clock strikes midnight is a long-held ...

Everyone sings Auld Lang Syne at midnight on New Year's Eve - even though we barely know the lyrics beyond the first verse.

In many English-speaking countries, the song Auld Lang Syne is associated with farewelling the past year. The lyrics originally formed a poem written in Scots, an early Scottish language or ...

However, that’s not what the song is about at all. To understand what it is about, let’s start with the title “Auld Lang Syne.” It is the Scots language, which translates to Old Long Since ...

the song goes. “Should old acquaintance be forgot in the days of auld lang syne?” “Auld Lang Syne” is a Scottish song written by poet Robert Burns. The reason it may be so hard to ...

The phrase "auld lang syne" literally translates from Scots language to "old long since," but is more commonly understood to mean "days gone by" or "old times' sake." The song poses a rhetorical ...

If you sang “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve, you were speaking Scots. The lyricist? Poet Robert (aka Rabbie) Burns.

Each year when the clock strikes midnight on New Year's, people around the world sing one song in unison. "Auld Lang Syne" has long been a hit at New Year's parties in the U.S. as people join ...