Auld Lang Syne: Meaning and History of “The Song That Nobody Knows”


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 Based on the article in Reader’s Digest, 1788 Scottish poem by Robert “Rabbie” Burns. The literal translation of this phrase is “old long since” and it basically means “days gone by.” The dictionary describes “Auld Lang Syne” as “the good old times.”

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