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Posted on 12/31/2004 12:18:31 AM PST by JustAmy
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You too!! :)
Happy New Year, Jen! Have fun at the Peach Bowl.
P.S. Jen, root for the winner ;-) 
Pretty graphic, thanks Amy. Just think, we will actually get to meet each other in person in just 3 weeks. Happy New Year to you and yours.
I'm looking forward to meeting you in DC.
I think it will be a fun party. It's a great way to celebrate the defeat of John F. Kerry!!!
Happy New Year to you as well and may God always bless you.
Happy New Year to you too, Tulip. Yes, RIP UT.
Happy New Year, Colleen.
Oh wow, Jen! Sasso looks great. Congratulations. Can he see at all?
Glad to hear you are doing better.My wife has been a bit ill lately - the last week or so.
She has had headaches, sinus and throat symptoms, poor baby.
The last few days, I've had allergy-like symptoms and today, my sinuses have been a real hassle. :^(
But I talked to my SIL (who has also been ill lately with the same symptoms) tells me that my wife will have me some medicinal help when she gets home here in a short while. :^)
Yay! Happy New Year's (almost!)
Just FIVE hours to 2005!
Happy New Year from me and 'Dude'!
Oh, no! I haven't talked to you in awhile, have you been sick?
I've been fighting a sore throat all week. Must have caught it from Marissa.
It caught up with me Wednesday afternoon. After the dentist I came home and went to bed.
After posting Thursday's opening, I went back to bed. Marissa woke me to tell me that Grandpa had given her cookies and ice cream. ( He had also fixed her a green salad and a turkey sandwich. ) They got along fine. She picked out a dress that she wanted to wear. He didn't comb her hair but he did a great job of tying the bow on her dress.
Anyway after sleeping most of Thursday and eating a couple bowls of chicken noodle soup, I'm feeling much better.
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and days o' auld lang syne.
We twa ha'e run about the braes, and pu'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary foot sin' auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
We twa ha'e paodl't i' the burn, from mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid ha'e roar'd sin' auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, and gie's a hand o' thine;
And we'll takr 'a right guid willie waught for auld lang syne.
For auld land syne, my dear, For auld lang syne,
We'll take 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 take 'a cup o' kindness yet, for auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne.
This auld song's been sung, well, lang syne
Everybody sings it as the old year tums to new -- there's even a polka version, but few people know more than a handful of words
By STEPHEN LYNCH
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE
Published in The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, December 30, 1999
Depending on where you celebrate New Year's Eve, the tumtables will spin Prince's "1990," Barry Manilow's "It's Just Another Nov Year's Eve" or even, heaven forbid, Will Smith's "Will 2K."
But at midnight, in almost every nightclub and home, on every television and radio, the song will be the same: "Auld Lang Syne.'
"It just fits the moment' says Tyrone Traher, who has studied the origins of the song, "It's traditional. Kind of like how 'Amazing Grace' is always played at a funeral."
Except that most people can make it past the first line of "Amazing Grace."
"Yes,' Traher agrees with a chuckle. "No one seems to know all the words."
He pauses for a moment. "Come to think of it, I've honestly never read all the words to the song."
So there you have it: a Gaelic-riddled song with an oldfashioned melody that many Americans sing as "should auld acquaintance be forgot ...' and then trail off into a hum. Our national New Year's anthem. How'd it happen? Glad you asked.
"Auld Lang Syne" means "old long since" and is adapted from a traditional Scottish folk tune. The basic words date to at least 1711, though some scholars say it was menrioned as early as 1677. Scottish poet Robert Bums is credited with first publishing it, in the mid-1790s, and, researchers say, smoothing out some of the verses and changing the melody.
The song recalls the days gone by and says we will always remember them. "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?." it asks. No, the chorus replies: 'For auld lang syne (for times gone by), we'll talc (drink) a cup o' kindness yet ."
As for the other lyrics, Verse 2 refers to friends at separate places (or pubs), drinking to each other. Verses 3 and 4 talk about a long journey to find that friend, running "about the braes" (hillsides), and "pou'd the gowans fine" (pulled the pretty daisies), and getting tired doing so "wand’d mony a weary fit," or "a weary foot," dependlng on the version). It continues with wading streams ("paidI'd in the bum"), from dusk until dinnertime, but even then, broad ("braid") seas roar between them.
But finally, in the last verse, the friemts find each other. And they "talc a right guid-willie waught' ("drink a goodwill drink') for times gone by.
It wasn't Bums, however, who turned this misty-eyed tune into a New Year's tradition. That would be Guy Lombardo, who first heard the song in his youth from Scottish immigrants in his hometown of London, Ontario.
Traher, who organizes the Royal Canadian Big Band Music Festival and tribute to Lombardo every year in London, says the song stuck in the musician's head. When Lombardo formed an orchestra with his brother in 1919, they arranged the piece and made it part of their repertoire.
"It seemed appropriate for New Year's -- a time to look back," Traher says. So when the Lombardo brothers got the chance to headline a New Year's Eve party in New York in 1929, they played "Auld Lang Syne" near midnight, then counteted down.
For nearly 50 years after that, Guy Lombardo and his orchestra played New Year's Eve radio and, later, television spedals from the Waldorf Astoria
"Prior to Dick Clark, there was Guy Lombardo," Traher says, and though Lombardo died in 1977, "Auld Lang Syne" became a staple.
Now there are pop versions of the song, disco remixes, even a controversial British single of the Lord's Prayer sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne" topping the charts in the United Kingdom this month. George Reynoso, an independent music retailer in El Paso, Texas, sells a CD through his Web site (www.newyearsevesong.com) that includes country, polka and dance versions of the standard.
"The Lombardo version is sleepy, dreamy; it definitely needed an update," Reynoso says.
He adds that he got the idea from "Corrido de Auld I.ang Syne",. a hard-to-find Mexi.can dance version of the song.
"It's ingrained in the consciousness," Reynoso says of the appeal of"Auld Iang Syne."
And even though people aren't sure what it means, it sounds sad and soothing at once, he says.
"It's a song about loss, but also about love -- a hope that you'll see the same people you love next year."
Really?
"Well, that's the way I think about it," Reynoso says. "But no, I don't know the words."
Happy New Year!!! See posts #98 and 99.
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