Please be reminded that the library will be CLOSED this Saturday for New Year’s Eve.

And in order to assist any fellow parties (or maybe more appropriately: partyers), who like myself have always wondered what the actual words to “that-song-people-in-movies-sometimes-sing-on-New Year’s Eve”, the entire  lyrics to this infamous Scottish tune/ poem are as follows:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
     And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
     And auld lang syne!

     Chorus: 
     For auld lang syne, my dear,
     For auld lang syne.
     We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
     For auld lang syne.

And surely ye’ll be your pint stowp!
     And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
     For auld lang syne.

     Chorus

We twa hae run about the braes,
     And pou’d the gowans fine;
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
     Sin’ auld lang syne.

     Chorus

We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,
     Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
     Sin’ auld lang syne.

     Chorus

And there’s a hand, my trusty fere!
     And gie’s a hand o’ thine!
And we’ll tak a right gude-willie waught,
     For auld lang syne.