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Show ixox-:-xxoxoxoxvX-;-x-:-xvXvx-x-:-x-:xi-xvxxvx-:-x:. Hard to Trace Origin of "Auld Lang Syne" The origin of "Auld Lang Syne." lnl iab.y sung as the New Tear conies in wherever two or three Brit-n Brit-n are gathered together, .. rather obscure if Kobert Burns can be trusted trust-ed and the song really did belong to tt "folk" of Scotland. Burns' own account of -he matter. In a letter of 1790, was 'One song more and I baie done 'Auld Lang Syne-' 'The air is but meTliocre, but the o,d ng-whlch has never been In p int nor even in MS. until 1 took ell , to recommen any air. ver.Zbiti,,! air to which the BllIie ,s nowlnvarioh v - . "Vi'entiUeVeedaLawat Michaelmas," and in Gow's collections of reels It appears as "Sir Alexandei Don's Strathspey." As to the words. I adds our authority, the probability Is j that verses two and three with theli note of more tender sensibility wer ' added by the poet to the older set. Cleveland Plain Denier. j |