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Sunday, January 3. 2021

Auld Lang Syne

Old times. It's a tear-jerker. Last time we played Rabbie Burns' tune in our house was the year that both of my parents died with the whole countless family, at Thanksgiving.


Our dear friend played it on our pianny Sat. night for a smallish New Year dinner party.  Mrs. BS made that wonderful Italian roast pork with a ton of peppercorns.


All I could think of is of my lost pals, died or moved away. Especially my tennis partners and beer partners. Parents and in-laws too. 


Rabbie did not invent the song, it's just his version that we sing with tears.


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I love this song and hope each year that we can live in a more genuinely caring community.
#1 faculty wife on 2021-01-03 15:07 (Reply)
The strangest thing; my grandfather and his siblings spoke old Scottish and with Scottish accent even though our ancestors came to the new world in 1772. I have to guess that they kept their accent because in fact until my Dad was born they all were born and lived in a very small community in Nova Scotia and when I visited they all spoke old Scottish and with a Scottish accent. So I grew up know what the words meant.
#2 OneGuy on 2021-01-03 19:05 (Reply)
When I was fresh out of high school two of my friends and I fixed up an old Volvo and drove through the Maritime Provinces. On Cape Breton Island, everybody spoke with a pronounced Scottish burr. It was remarkable, because the place even looks a little like the highlands (beautiful island). That was in 1975, don't know if it's still the same way now. I couldnae' git o'er it then, though.
#2.1 Aggie on 2021-01-03 19:48 (Reply)
My ancestry too is from Nova Scotia. Maiden name Stronach. My father and other family members, several years ago, went to the old homestead a 500 acre land grant when my great great grandfather came over from Scotland. Yes I also love the song, sung it on Thursday night with a small gathering of good, albeit slightly drunk friends.
#2.2 Pocono pam on 2021-01-04 05:34 (Reply)
Is there a sadder good-bye song than Auld Lang Syne?
#3 feeblemind on 2021-01-03 21:46 (Reply)
"Old long since" ahhh...At New Year when I hear this song I think of my good friend Jack--KIA in Vietnam in 1968.
#4 rocdoctom on 2021-01-03 21:59 (Reply)

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