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• Should old acquaintance be forgot
  and never brought to mind?
  Should old acquaintance be forgot
  and old lang syne?
  
  [Chorus - this part repeats after every verse]
  For auld lang syne, my dear
  for auld lang syne
  we'll take a cup of kindness yet
  for auld lang syne.
  
  And surely you'll buy your pint cup
  and surely I'll buy mine
  And we'll take a cup o' kindness yet
  for auld lang syne.
  
  We two have run about the slopes
  and picked the daisies fine;
  But we've wandered many a weary foot
  since auld lang syne.
  
  We two have paddled in the stream
  from morning sun till dine
  But seas between us broad have roared
  since auld lang syne.
  
  And there's a hand my trusty friend
  And give me a hand o' thine
  And we'll take a right goodwill draught
  for auld lang syne Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 13th, 1960 Bobby Darin co-hosted on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'; and he also performed "Christmas Auld Lang Syne", and six days later on December 19th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart...
  {See next post below}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 1st 1960, 24-year-old Bobby Darin married 19-year-old Sandra Dee at rock promoter Don Kirshner's apartment in New Jersey...
  Eighteen days later on December 19th his "Christmas Auld Lang Syne" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #89; the following week it rose to #58, and on its third and final week on the chart it peaked at #51...
  The record's B-side, "Child of God", also made the Top 100, it stayed on the chart for one week at position #95...
  Sadly, both Mr. Darin and Ms. Dee passed away at a young age; Bobby, born Walden Robert Cassotto, on December 20th, 1973 at age 37 and Sandra, born Alexandra Zuck, passed on February 20th, 2005 at the age of 62...
  May they both R.I.P.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 31st 1929, at a New Year's Eve Party at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill in New York City Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians performed "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time on the CBS Radio network; he played every New Year's Eve till 1959, and after that at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel until 1976...
  Mr. Lombardo passed away on November 5th, 1977 at the age of 75.
• Steve Dotstar from Los Angeles, Caok, Brian showed that the Beach Boys can do Barbershop harmony.....(mixed with a little Freshmen later on in the cut)
• Sean from Chicago, IlOkay, since this is in the "Beach Boys" section, let's have a REAL Beach Boys thing...
  
  Jeffrey Foskett once told this story...after the Beach Boys hired him circa 1981, around Christmas time, he had to head to the airport to get to his first gig with the group. When he gets to the gate, he sees Dennis Wilson sleeping the previous evening's activities off. He introduces himself to Dennis and says that he was listening to some Beach Boys stuff the night before. He says to Dennis, "How about this old gem?" and he plays a tape of the Beach Boys' "Auld Lang Syne."
  
  Dennis responds: "How about THIS old gem? 'You're Fired!'"
• Theresa from Kingston, OhI always love when they sing this at the end of "It's a Wonderful Life." That scene is so...wonderful.
• Bob from The Colony, TxThe tune that is most commonly associated with the song (i.e. the tune that everybody knows) is not the tune that Burns wrote the song to. The original tune that Burns used can be found on recordings by Jean Redpath and The Tannahill Weavers.
• Mike from Mountlake Terrace, WashingtonGlenn Miller and Guy Lombardo both did this in the 40's and those are the versions most heard in films such as "When Harry met Sally", Also used in "It's a wonderful life" in the closing scenes.

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