“Should old acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind” — wait, what does that even mean? Every New Year’s Eve brings about many attempts at singing the one song everybody associates with the ...

The clock strikes twelve marking the arrival of 2024, and we all know what comes next—that most popular of all New Year’s songs, "Auld Lang Syne." You might hum along as you try to remember the lyrics ...

Harry: What does this song mean? My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. “Should old acquaintance be forgot” – does that mean we should forget old acquaintances, or if we happen to forget ...

The centuries-old New Year's Eve standard "Auld Lang Syne" rarely fails to send me into a sentimental tailspin, and a new recording of the song by Virginia indie folk-rockers Palmyra — who released an ...

As “Auld Lang Syne” takes its annual spin around the globe on New Year’s Eve, its chorus belted out by revelers young and old, Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen says the song’s enduring power ...

Every New Year’s Eve, after the champagne has been popped, the ball has dropped, and everyone is feeling very merry indeed, revelers queue up the same song they’ve been queuing up for decades. You ...

The iconic song became a staple at the stroke of midnight with a little help from 18th century poet Robert Burns and the Scottish diaspora. It wouldn't be New Year's Eve without "Auld Lang Syne"—and ...