To ask you all to remember something if you are singing Old Lang Syne on Hogmanay?

[Salmotrutta]

It's Syne.

NOT Zyne.

Thank you.

Oops!

Auld Lang Syne!

I hate that bloody song anyway. No idea why anyone sings it. Do people actually sing it on New Years?

Here's another for you - I think you deserve it!

Well yes of course they do up here in Scotland!

Of course people sing it!

And you don't cross hands till the 2nd verse either!

It's not New Year in Scotland without Old Lang Zyne

I have actually never heard real life people sing this on New Years. Heard it on the telly and in movies ofc.

We prefer to sing it in a Sarf Lahhhhhhhnnndahhhhhhhn accent for authenticity

And while we are on the subject...

It's Hogmanay/New Year's Eve and New Year's Day

NOT New Years

Oh god yes - News Years drives me mad

I luffs a bitta Old Lan Zine

What are the words - that bit - we'll take a...?

I do, but then I live in Scotland. O find the lyrics quite touching as I tend to spend Christmas/hogmany with friends rather than family.

Sir the tradition of singing Old Lang Syne at hogmany was begun by Scots living in London in the 30s (it had been sung as an ode to friendship before that) so a Sarf Lahndan drawl isn't inappropriate.

we'll tak a cup o kindness yet
For auld lang syne

For those interested in the lyrics :-

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld 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.

And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o'kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
Sin' auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

And there's a hand, my trusty fere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

Verses 2-4 are usually missed out or it would take all night to sing!

I hate it when I hear people song 'for the SAKE if old lang zyne'

It really grinds my gears. There's no sake involved!

We sing it in Ireland thanks for the re education we sing zyne I will shout syne this year mind you there is often a bit of humming for the words I will learn them too.

Ohh and definitely have sung for the sake of auld lang zyne I will work on that too.

So, for clarity, it is usually just the first and last verse that are sung (with chorus).

Compos - I don't think that's strictly true! It was being sung up here long before the 30s at New Year (as remembered by my Granny), and in fact according to this site there are "several documented instances of others singing this song on New Year’s Eve, going all the way back to the mid-nineteenth century"

Taking a right gude willie waught still makes me snigger.

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Oooh!

Shall we have a Barney lively debate about when the singing of it on Hogmanay started?

I've heard some Scots call NYE 'Old Year's Night', is this common? I love the New Year, much more enjoyable than Xmas, especially a rousing chorus of Auld Lang Syne, getting excited about Tuesday night now.