{"id":1079,"date":"2015-01-01T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T16:13:39","slug":"the-history-of-auld-lang-syne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/happy-holidays\/the-history-of-auld-lang-syne\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are numerous different traditional songs associated with Christmas\u2014but there is only one song that comes to mind immediately when people think of New Year\u2019s Eve: \u201cAuld Lang Syne.\u201d It is hard to find a New Year\u2019s Eve party where people won\u2019t<\/em> leap into singing \u201cShould old acquaintance be forgot\u2026\u201d as the first stroke of midnight sounds. This tradition encompasses the globe, with almost every culture that celebrates New Year\u2019s on January 1st breaking into song with the same set of lyrics.<\/p>\n

Where did this song come from? And what do the words \u201cauld lang syne\u201d actually mean? The best place to ask these questions is Scotland. The Official Gateway to Scotland website calls the song \u201cone of Scotland\u2019s gifts to the world, recalling the love and kindness of days gone by, but in the communion of taking our neighbor\u2019s hands, it also gives us a sense of belonging and fellowship to take us into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The melody of the piece originates from Lowland Scots folk song tradition. It was legendary Scottish Romantic poet Robert Burns (1759\u20131796) who created the words we know today, however. During the later years of his life, Burns dedicated much of his work to collecting Scottish folk tunes and giving them new life. The first mention Burns makes of \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d is in 1788, when he calls the song \u201ca glorious fragment.\u201d Burns wrote new lyrics to the old melody, and used the words \u201cauld lang syne,\u201d which is Scottish for \u201cold long since,\u201d and which can be translated into standard English as \u201clong, long ago\u201d or \u201cdays gone by.\u201d The phrase was already known in earlier Scottish poems and folk songs, and appears to be the equivalent of \u201cOnce upon a time\u2026\u201d for Scots fairy tales.<\/p>\n

Soon after Burns introduced the song to the public, it spread across Scotland as a New Year\u2019s custom, and then to the rest of Great Britain. Scottish immigrants took the song with them as they moved across the globe, and by the middle of the 19th century it was a holiday tradition throughout the English-speaking world. By the close of the 20th century, it was a global phenomenon to ring in the New Year.<\/p>\n

We imagine that you\u2019ll end up singing or hearing \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d at some point this New Year\u2019s (maybe you\u2019ve already heard it while watching It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em>).<\/p>\n

All of us at DuAll Heating & Cooling would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy coming year in the tradition of the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are numerous different traditional songs associated with Christmas\u2014but there is only one song that comes to mind immediately when people think of New Year\u2019s Eve: \u201cAuld Lang Syne.\u201d It is hard to find a New Year\u2019s Eve party where people won\u2019t leap into singing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77],"tags":[155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duallheating.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}