Auld lang syne - Last night of the Proms

The words of a 1788 poem by Robert Burns set to the tune of a pentatonic Scots folk melody - please rate and comment!
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[kimdunlap]

Thumbs Up, alllllll the way. THANKS for sharing.

[Zeobit]

@kimdunlap @dseanmat You're welcome, all the best for 2011!

[Zeobit]

@kimdunlap, @dseanmat You're welcome, all the best for 2011!

[KJenq]

If English was your mother tongue, there is little that can evoke such an emotion as hearing our language resonating through so many voices such as is seen here. Simply beautiful.

[VigisKane]

beautiful just beautiful

[WILLIEHUNTZ]

solidarity like that puts the great in great britain

[pockthehairy]

looks a bit violent

[drdoomandchums]

@KJenq its a scottish song but yeah sure

[Hereticalable]

@KJenq - Not just English but British English - our great crime was to not teach this language to the world properly.

[DykeeniesMan123]

0.46, someone always does the arms wrong lol

[LadySimone82]

@mrdavidsmithism

I've always seen it done in this way: For the first stanza everyone just takes the hands of their neighbours (without crossing). Only in the second stanza ("Now here's a hand my trusty friend") do people cross arms. So as far as I know that is the Scottish tradition. I've never seen anything else in Scotland...

[mrdavidsmithism]

@JamesDCPenny Let me get this straight, she was correct my "plucking" the hands of the prime minister and snaking them about in the wrong direction? no, not only am i Scottish i have studied Scottish and World music. There is no customary way to do it, you cross arms as it is a symbol of the bond between what was known as the Scottish Monarchy and the Clans. Quite simple and if you had some research you would know that, the queen was just rude.

[JamesDCPenny]

@mrdavidsmithism She actually did it correctly, everyone else was wrong:

In countries other than Scotland the hands are often crossed from the beginning of the song at variance with Scottish custom. The Scottish practice was demonstrated by the Queen at the Millennium Dome celebrations for the year 2000. The English press berated her for not "properly" crossing her arms, unaware that she was correctly following the Scottish tradition

[dozy0802]

it is "we will TAC a cup of kindness", not "take" gaul!