Auld Lang Syne: Cello in the Irish Countryside

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Traditional Scottish song Auld Lang Syne played on solo cello outdoors in the West of Ireland countryside

300 years ago in 1720, The Scottish poet Allan Ramsay published a song he took “from an old man’s singing”.
Later, Scotland's national poet Robert Burns wrote his own version which became the song that many will sing around the world tonight 'Auld Lang Syne'.

A Scots-language poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world, its traditional use being to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.

A traditional New Years celebrations song sung around the world in New Years Eve.
Happy New Year!

The poem's Scots title may be translated into standard English as "old long since" or, less literally, "long long ago",

Lyrics:
Should Old Acquaintance be forgot,
and never thought upon;
The flames of Love extinguished,
and fully past and gone:
Is thy sweet Heart now grown so cold,
that loving Breast of thine;
That thou canst never once reflect
On old long syne.

Chorus:
On old long syne my Jo,
On old long syne,
That thou canst never once reflect,
On old long syne.

TEXT and VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIaC8A2E254

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