BACKGROUND INFO
What in the world is
Aud Lang Syne?
New Year’s
Description by the US Embassy
Happy New Year’s
SOME SUPERSTITIONS
If you wash your clothes
on New Year’s Eve, someone in your family will die in the new year.
What you did on New
Year's you'll be doing the rest of the year.
You can’t mop on New
Year’s, even if you spill water. You have to soak the water up with something, like
papertowels.
A man should be the first
person to enter your home if you were to have visitors. This will bring you good luck.
If you have money in your
pocket on New Year's Day you will have money all year long.
You should sweep your
front porch on New Year's. This is symbolic of sweeping out the old to allow for the new
in the following year.
Boil a pot of black-eyed
peas to bring you luck throughout the year.
AUD LANG SYNE
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne? And days of auld lang syne, my dear,
And days of auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days of auld lang syne?
We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pu'd the gowans fine.
We've wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin' auld lang syne.
Sin' auld lang syne, my dear,
Sin' auld lang syne,
We've wandered mony a weary foot,
Sin' auld ang syne.
We twa hae sported i' the burn,
From morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roared
Sin' auld lang syne.
Sin' auld lang syne, my dear,
Sin' auld lang syne.
But seas between us braid hae roared
in' auld lang syne.
And ther's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
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