Happy New Year! As we walk, rock and or roll into 2020, a bit of music never hurt anyone and many songs have been written about the event. From old favorites to new these songs help us reflect on the year gone by and bring hope for the year ahead. I'll keep this short post brief and get right to the music! So we of course need to start with the oldest New Year song, a tradition since the late 1700's in Scotland. The legendary Poet Robert Burns transcribed words he said he heard from an old man. It's an amalgam of old poems and folk songs put to the tune of yet another old folk song which is listed on the Roud Folk Song Index as number 6294 out of over 25,000 songs. "Auld Lang Syne" is roughly translated into several meanings, according to Wikipedia "into standard English as "old long since" or, more idiomatically, "long long ago", "days gone by", or "old times". Consequently, "For auld lang syne", as
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