“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 ...

We sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of every single year, but as Mariah Carey asks in her indelible version, "Does anybody really know the words?" After all, what is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"?

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 ...

In the final scene of Nora Ephron's iconic 1989 romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally," the couple embraces as "Auld Lang Syne" starts to play. It's not long until Billy Crystal's Harry begins to ...

On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...

Every New Year’s Eve, many of us will come to the realisation that we don’t actually know the words to “Auld Lang Syne”. Belting out the song as the clock strikes midnight is a long-held tradition in ...

You might know it as the song that people sing – or at least try to sing – every year on New Year's Eve. Once the clock strikes midnight and the calendar flips to 2022, people around the world will ...

A campaign has been launched to raise £12m to save the historic farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne. The funds will be used to restore Ellisland Farm north of Dumfries and aim to create a ...

(NEXSTAR) – As the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, you’ll hear “happy New Year,” and then these lyrics. “Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” the song goes. “Should ...