Getting ready for New Year's Eve with correct lyrics

[PowerOfOne]

Have you ever wondered what the words are in the New Year's Eve song, "Auld Lang Syne"? I love hearing people sing it or try to sing it, most are inebriated at this point anyway, and what their version of the song is can be hilarious. I am posting the correct words to the tune and to the right of the words are translations of what some of the phrases/words mean. Happy New Year!

CHORUS

For auld syne, my dear, (old long ago)
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?

We twa hae run about the braes, (hillsides)
And pou'd the gowans fine; (pulled/daisies)
But we've wander'd mony a weary foot,
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, (waded/stream)
Frae morning sun till dine, (noon/dinner-time)
But seas between us braid hae roar'd (broad)
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, (goodwill drink)
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp, (pay for)
And surely I'll be mine;
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

 

[LukkyKnight]

pint-stowp?

PowerOfTheMind, what HAVE you been drinking? pint-stowp? I'm just sure.

Happy New Year's, PowerfulOne, in case for some reason I don't see you closer to the Eve...

 

[PowerOfOne]

I did not write the farken thing, LukkyKnight, and I am too busy laughing at the way people sing it to be able to sing it myself. I would not have chosen this as the traditional New Year's song but maybe Burns (the writer) liked to laugh about how people interpreted it also!

Someone celebrates his 1000th post and all of a sudden he is a critic.