Show hard to trace origin of auld lang syne sync tile the origin of auld lang daog syne sung as the new year comes in wherever two or three bill ons tire lire gathered together Is rather obscure if robert burns coo can be trussed und and the sung really did balong to the lie folk of scotland burns own account ot of the matter in n letter of 1703 1705 was one song more and I 1 have doble auld lang syne sye the air Is but mediocre ocre but the old song hong which has never been in print nor even in ss until I 1 took lr IT hown from an old roans mans alli singing gilig 19 to recommend tiny nuy air ac corling to one scottish authority air to which the gong ill Is now invariably sung ninn Is 18 not the original gInal one which burns pronounced to he mediocre but one adopted from an old li whine melody this wn wa entitled 1 I feed a law at and in bows collection of reels it appears as aa sir alexander Alexan dei dons As to 0 the words worda adds our authority the hie probability li Is that verses two and three theli their note of ff more tender sensibility wert were added by the poet to the older set cleveland plain denier dealer |