Time was running down on the final blog of this seemingly remarkably long year of learnings. I had probably learnt a million and one things on New Years Eve 2012, but as if in a daze I had remembered none of them. Now, like a cliffhanger episode of 24, I was in danger of missing my first (and last) learning of the year.
Fortunately that’s when I first heard someone remark about how excited they were to sing Auld Lang Syne (and yes, I only just learnt how to spell the title). Unfortunately they, like everyone else, only actually knows the first line -‘Should old acquaintance be forgot….’ – and that was my eureka moment. What on earth are the words to the song? So link arms with a friend and join me:
Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lang Syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ lang syne!
Chorus:
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
We twa hae run about the braes,
And pu’d the gowans fine,
But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot
Sin’ auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’t in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar’d
Sin’ auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine,
And we’ll tak a right guid willie-waught
For auld lang syne!
And surely ye’ll be your pint’ stoup,
And surely I’ll be mine!
And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne!
I’ll probably reflect a little more on my years learnings after this, but for now it seems fitting for me to take a cup of kindness and reflect on the year that’s been.
Happy New Year.
DC
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