{"id":327,"date":"2011-01-17T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T15:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2011-01-18T10:18:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T15:18:41","slug":"auld-lang-syne-i-burns-complete-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Auld Lang Syne I (Burns&#8217; Complete Text)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Burns\u00a0<br \/>\n(word meanings below)<\/p>\n<p>Should auld acquaintance be forgot,<br \/>\nAnd never brought to mind?<br \/>\nShould auld acquaintance be forgot,<br \/>\nAnd auld lang syne?<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS:<br \/>\nFor auld lang syne, my dear,<br \/>\nFor auld lang syne,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll tak a cup of kindness yet,<br \/>\nFor auld lang syne!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And surely ye&#8217;ll be your pint-stowp,<br \/>\nAnd surely I&#8217;ll be mine,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll tak a cup o kindness yet,<br \/>\nFor auld lang syne! (chorus)<\/p>\n<p>We twa hae run about the braes,<br \/>\nAnd pou&#8217;d the gowans fine,<br \/>\nBut we&#8217;ve wander&#8217;d monie a weary fit,<br \/>\nSin auld lang syne. (chorus)<\/p>\n<p>We twa hae paidl&#8217;d in the burn<br \/>\nFrae morning sun till dine,<br \/>\nBut seas between us braid hae roar&#8217;d<br \/>\nSin auld lang syne. (chorus)<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s a hand my trusty fiere,\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd gie&#8217;s a hand o thine,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll tak a right guid willie waught,<br \/>\nFor auld lang syne. (chorus)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Meanings:<\/span> auld lang syne &#8211; times gone by<br \/>\nbe &#8211; pay for<br \/>\nbraes &#8211; hills<br \/>\nbraid &#8211; broad<br \/>\nburn &#8211; stream<br \/>\ndine &#8211; dinner time<br \/>\nfiere &#8211; friend<br \/>\nfit &#8211; foot<br \/>\ngowans &#8211; daisies<br \/>\nguid-willie waught &#8211; goodwill drink<br \/>\nmonie &#8211; many<br \/>\nmorning sun &#8211; noon<br \/>\npaidl&#8217;t &#8211; paddled<br \/>\npint-stowp &#8211; pint tankard<br \/>\npou&#8217;d &#8211; pulled<br \/>\ntwa &#8211; two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Burns\u00a0 (word meanings below) Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne? CHORUS: For auld lang syne, my dear, For auld lang syne, We&#8217;ll tak a cup of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=327\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,38],"tags":[34,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}