Musings on New Years....

[SpeedRacer 1]

At the pub I went to for New Years: The guy onstage w/the guitar started playing Auld Lang Syne at midnight & everyone sang along.
In UK & USA & probably Australia & NZ as well, we do this every New Years. But has anyone ever been able to figure out WTF this song is about??!! Trouble is, by midnight everyone's too drunk to care.
The song goes something like:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot (hiccup)
And never brought to mind..
Should auld acquaintance be forgot.
We'll (something) auld Lang Syne....
WTF???
The only thing I know about this song is that it was written by Robert Louis Stevenson when he was really drunk.
But what the fuck is an Auld Lang Syne anyway?? Any guesses?
Speed Racer
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork from my lunch?!
-WC Fields

[freeflir29 0]

I think it's a drunk guy singing.......
"I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"
Clay

[skycat 0]

http://www.robertburns.org/encyclopedia/AuldLangSyne.5.html
http://www.worldburnsclub.com/newsletter/auld_lang_syne_what_about.htm
Try these sites

[SpeedRacer 1]

Oh sorry, it was Robert Burns.
Speed Racer
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork from my lunch?!
-WC Fields

[SpeedRacer 1]

Clay is right. There is clearly some drunken babbling going on in this song (Sounds like this forum sometimes!)
Here's another verse:
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.
Could that first line translate as:
"We twice have piddled in the barn"?
Speed Racer
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork from my lunch?!
-WC Fields

[freeflir29 0]

""We twice have piddled in the barn"?"
Hmmm....was this guy from Alabama or Iowa?
"I got some beers....Let's Drink em!!!"
Clay