[Gatesedge] Fw: [scottishcouncil] Noonan: Days of Auld Lang What? - WSJ.com

[Carolyn Young]

Happy New Year!

And just in case you ever wondered about the song...

Cheers,
HL Caitlin, Carolyn, Lyn, Mom, Grandma
So much to do and so little attention span to get it done with…

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Melvyn Douglass 
To: Scottishcouncil Grouplist 
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2010 5:31 PM
Subject: [scottishcouncil] Noonan: Days of Auld Lang What? - WSJ.com


  

You know exactly when you'll hear it, and you probably won't hear it again for a year. The big clock will hit 11:59:50, the countdown will begin—10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4—and the sounds will rise: the party horns, fireworks and shouts of "Happy New Year!".  And then they'll play that song: "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days of auld lang syne?"

It is a poem in Scots dialect, set to a Scots folk tune, and an unscientific survey says that a lot of us don't think much about the words, or even know them.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703909904576052011797066654.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

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From: David DOUGLASS <dhdoug_4 at msn.com>
Sent: Fri, December 31, 2010 4:02:24 PM
Subject: Noonan: Days of Auld Lang What? - WSJ.com

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