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Americans Ring in the New Year
With 'Auld Lang Syne'
The song tells about the need to remember old friends. Transcript of
radio broadcast:
31 December 2006
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ANNOUNCER: Now, VOA Special English presents
a special program for New Year’s Eve.
(MUSIC)
That is a song millions of Americans will
hear this New Year’s Eve. It is called “Auld Lang Syne.”
It is the traditional music played during the New Year’s celebration.
Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember
old friends. The words “auld lang syne” mean “old
long since.” No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a
version by Scottish poet Robert Burns was published in seventeen ninety-six.
The words and music we know today first appeared in a songbook three
years later.
The song is sung in the United States mainly
on New Year’s Eve. Here is Lou Rawls singing his version of it.
(MUSIC)
Another version is by the Washington Saxophone
Quartet. As we end our program with “Auld Lang Syne,” I
would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This
is Shirley Griffith.