Auld Lang Syne

Released: June 15, 2022
Lyrics: Robert Burns
Music: Old Scottish Folk Song
Co-Produced by Jared Hancock at Surefire Creative Studios and Esther Rhatigan
Recorded by Jared Hancock at Surefire Creative Studios, Lowell, MA
Mixed and mastered by Esther Rhatigan
Artwork: Esther Rhatigan

We'll drink a cup of kindness yet...

How many New Year's celebrations have included singing those words? I certainly can't count them all. We tend to end each year by reflecting on it and years past. We start each year the next day thinking about the future and what the next 365 days might hold, what we hope to do with them.

Similarly, when we graduate from our various educational institutions, we reflect on the years spent there and all we achieved before turning our focus to the future and putting all of our learning to use in whatever the next phase may be.

'Auld Lang Syne' is not bound to just endings, but rather offers a reflection point in any situation. When you take a moment to step back and reflect on how far you've come, I hope you sing in the next step and the path that lies ahead.

Lyrics:

V1:
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and auld lang syne?

Ch:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

V2: We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.

Ch:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

V3:
And there's a hand my trusty friend!
And give me a hand o' thine!
And we'll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.

Ch:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Outtro:
for auld lang syne