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The stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve usually sounds like this:
This is Auld Lang Syne,. a song that represents the emotional conclusion to another year.
But it might surprise you to know, it's also a soccer anthem in the Netherlands.
Or in Japan, it's a traditional song about fireflies.
And the original was written centuries ago, as a Scottish celebration song.
So how did this song, that's managed to spread across the world, become the song we sing
when the ball drops?. What does this song mean?. My whole life, I don't know what this song means.. A lot of people share this confusion about Auld Lang Syne, because the lyrics are sort
of hard to figure out.. Let's start with the title.. Auld Lang Syne.. Individually these words mean "Old Long Since",. which taken together, translate to something. like "For old time's sake.". It's written in Scots, a language spoken by about a million people in Scotland today.
The rest of the lyrics are a mix of English and Scots words, like "And there's a hand,
my trusty feire, And we'll tak' a right gude-willie waught,".
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