“Should old acquaintance be forgot / And never brought to mind” — wait, what does that even mean? Every New Year’s Eve brings about many attempts at singing the one song everybody associates with the ...

We sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the end of every single year, but as Mariah Carey asks in her indelible version, "Does anybody really know the words?" After all, what is the meaning of "Auld Lang Syne"?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might know it as the song that people sing – or at least try to sing – every year on New Year's Eve. Once the clock strikes ...

On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight people around the globe break into a tune whose lyrics are believed to be based on a Scottish poem by Robert Burns. ‘Auld Lang Syne,’ which translates ...

Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne" The song was written by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), who is widely considered the National Poet of Scotland. Burns is one of the founders of the Romanic movement ...