The New Year's Eve song, explained

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The US associates "Auld Lang Syne" with the New Year, but not everyone does.
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After the ball drops in Times Square on New Year's Eve, the crowd cheers, couples kiss, confetti flies and the song you hear is "Auld Lang Syne." For Americans this song is associated with another year passing, but it means something else entirely in other cultures. Since the Scottish poet Robert Burns first published the words to the song in the 18th century, the melody has been adapted as a soccer ballad in the Netherlands, a graduation song in Japan, and more.
This video explains how an obscure Scottish folk tune took on new life around the world and how Guy Lombardo solidified it as the sound the US hears at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
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  • @Vox
    @Vox5 жыл бұрын

    Here's our last video of 2018! Happy New Year everyone 🍾✨✨

  • @AB-gw6uf

    @AB-gw6uf

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year!

  • @Coolsomeone234

    @Coolsomeone234

    5 жыл бұрын

    .

  • @xannecorinnex

    @xannecorinnex

    5 жыл бұрын

    What a lovely way to end 2018 with the meaning of Auld Lang Syne. Happy New Year Vox!

  • @luxembourgishempire2826

    @luxembourgishempire2826

    5 жыл бұрын

    2019!!!!!! Here we come

  • @pinehawk9600

    @pinehawk9600

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year 🎄

  • @HikariTheGardevoir
    @HikariTheGardevoir5 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Dutch woman studying Japanese. Can you imagine my utter confusion when I was walking through a supermarket during my exchange program in Japan, and all of a sudden the intercom started playing the melody of a Dutch football anthem to inform the customers that the supermarket was going to close soon? I only later learned the true origin of the melody.

  • @1mediaseeker

    @1mediaseeker

    Жыл бұрын

    😄

  • @Lawbringer.

    @Lawbringer.

    Жыл бұрын

    "To all costumers, we are pleased to inform you that the dutch has indeed invading and its replacing our goverment"

  • @patrice_1347

    @patrice_1347

    6 ай бұрын

    Ik snap 'm nu ook pas 😊😃🙃 maar kan me voorstellen dat het heel erg raar was! Zit zo in ons dna idd als lijflied voor de voetbal 👏🏽⚽ maar dit nummer is prachtig 💞 De versie van The Cast brengt iedere keer weer een nostalgisch gevoel naar boven. Happy new Year wherever you are 🧡🇳🇱

  • @AmbitionIsaMust115

    @AmbitionIsaMust115

    5 ай бұрын

    Hahah love that. This song hits different knowing the history

  • @MZMA85

    @MZMA85

    3 ай бұрын

    The only "dutch" song that i know is the GTAV's Pisswasser song

  • @tcsnowdream9975
    @tcsnowdream99755 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: in Japan, Auld Lang Syne is more widely used as a ‘the store is now closing’ song. If you stay in any department store that is closing in 10-15min, this song will come on, over the PA.

  • @kosukemiura1226

    @kosukemiura1226

    5 жыл бұрын

    imagine like being in the department store 10 mins before closing time and new years and you hear this

  • @kitneyspears

    @kitneyspears

    5 жыл бұрын

    that’s so cool! :)

  • @reiradesu

    @reiradesu

    5 жыл бұрын

    I've never heard this song played in Japan.. but okay

  • @MrGraymark

    @MrGraymark

    5 жыл бұрын

    Noticed that as well when I was there, especially funny when you are dutch and its our football anthem

  • @yoon9521

    @yoon9521

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@reiradesu it is sung on graduation in Japan! I forgor what the title is but it's sth firefly

  • @TenThumbsProductions
    @TenThumbsProductions5 жыл бұрын

    I’d love a pub to bring back the everybody singing vibe

  • @thinhnonyt

    @thinhnonyt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still got it in Oz, mostly Pub Rock songs.

  • @Lil-ie6xw

    @Lil-ie6xw

    3 жыл бұрын

    CHEERS

  • @goodactiondaily8779

    @goodactiondaily8779

    3 жыл бұрын

    We in Hastings had (before the 🦠) weekly shanty nights - such fun & togetherness singing with the whole pub. They moved it to Zoom but it just wasn’t the same.

  • @Bella_Nekro

    @Bella_Nekro

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just don't use the word vibe

  • @melle3326

    @melle3326

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Bella_Nekro it was used grammatically correct here i believe

  • @trexvanguard2772
    @trexvanguard27724 жыл бұрын

    The real hero that made 'Auld Lang Syne' be to what it is now is the old man that sang it in which Robert Burns heard and wrote down, kudos to the old man 👍

  • @catherineehlers8115

    @catherineehlers8115

    2 жыл бұрын

    And I bet he wasn’t paid a cent for it either.

  • @cammysmith7562

    @cammysmith7562

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@catherineehlers8115 and why should he. Culture has no price, his value is despite the fact his name being lost to time. He have given more to Scottish culture than the majority of Scotsman ever will. Highland culture was eradicated within 200 years. The same would have happened to lowland culture of it wasn’t for the works of Burns (who was far from a rich man). And sir Walter Scott. Money means nothing to the survival of a nation. My culture was eradicated by oppression. The same would have happened to lowland Scottish culture if it wasn’t for a few people willing to share their story. Why should money be earned.

  • @Boo_Sack

    @Boo_Sack

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cammysmith7562 Cool Cammy

  • @daizdamien1409

    @daizdamien1409

    Жыл бұрын

    nice coat

  • @LeHarmacist

    @LeHarmacist

    5 ай бұрын

    @@cammysmith7562damn, that deep. You actually made me think for a good thirty minutes, and that's quite rare.

  • @scifikoala
    @scifikoala5 жыл бұрын

    This song always makes me cry, practically on command

  • @missyhudson2548

    @missyhudson2548

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha! Thought I was the only one!!!!😁

  • @Allaiya.

    @Allaiya.

    Жыл бұрын

    It always makes me tear up

  • @natashaxnichole
    @natashaxnichole5 жыл бұрын

    I feel like no one really knows the song but we all kind of hum it and butcher the words drunkly 😂😂

  • @dktens

    @dktens

    5 жыл бұрын

    That's the only true way as a Scot if your not butchering words then you're doing it wrong 😋

  • @catsadilla324

    @catsadilla324

    4 жыл бұрын

    ♫ shoooouuuuld ooold acquaaaaiiiintance be forgot then caaaan yooooou seeeeee? shoooooouuuld ooooo Canadaaa beeeee forgot le-eet everyone oooooold siiiine! HAPPY NEW YEAR! ♫ **falls face first on glass coffee table**

  • @duckydae

    @duckydae

    4 жыл бұрын

    David Caitens to be fair that’s standard for most things Burns published 😂

  • @scottishboi6035

    @scottishboi6035

    3 жыл бұрын

    David Caitens nah man if u don’t know the song yet no a Scot

  • @lindsay556

    @lindsay556

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, yes we do

  • @andrew4363
    @andrew43633 жыл бұрын

    Clicked on this because I’m Scottish and attention seeking.

  • @katy3901

    @katy3901

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same, with the added incentive that I have an exam tomorrow so *of course* this is the best use of my time.

  • @jhoanaelechosa6118

    @jhoanaelechosa6118

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @melle3326

    @melle3326

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@katy3901 i have three essays overdue and i agree this is a better use of my time im not scottisch nor american but yet here i am

  • @Sharmanixs

    @Sharmanixs

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rahinc Can i slip in?

  • @Lyerbait13

    @Lyerbait13

    9 ай бұрын

    Lol

  • @Tony.H03
    @Tony.H033 жыл бұрын

    The European Parliament singing this after the Brexit deal was approved.... That was proper emotional. All those people from all nationalities singing together, bidding friends a fair farewell. I'll never forget that.

  • @AndrewArminRyan

    @AndrewArminRyan

    3 жыл бұрын

    'Friends', your joking, right?

  • @ljhb48

    @ljhb48

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewArminRyan despite the nationalistic facade of our southern neighbours, Scots still consider Europe to be friends and allies.

  • @morganjones638

    @morganjones638

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ljhb48 As do Londoners!

  • @tejasdhami8734

    @tejasdhami8734

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@morganjones638 Uhhh...probably not coventry tho...

  • @user-cl7yr

    @user-cl7yr

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tbf most Brits do, remainer or not we see Europeans as our brothers and sisters, just don't like the EU

  • @kaguth
    @kaguth5 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to tak a right-gud willie-waught tonight.

  • @timmmahhhh

    @timmmahhhh

    5 жыл бұрын

    They might think you're saying Willy Wonka and hand you chocolate.

  • @ezrabrooks7785

    @ezrabrooks7785

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna get drunk , then beat up my wife.

  • @timmmahhhh

    @timmmahhhh

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ezrabrooks7785 no don't do that. BTW love your board games.

  • @BothHands1

    @BothHands1

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's irish whiskey for me!

  • @steveasare6135

    @steveasare6135

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ezrabrooks7785 yooo

  • @lilik7708
    @lilik77085 жыл бұрын

    6:18 "even if you don't know the words" *shows Mariah Carey* LOL

  • @kalexambing2507

    @kalexambing2507

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lili Koch That was savage of Vox! 😂

  • @MrStGeorgeIllawarra

    @MrStGeorgeIllawarra

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL. So shady...

  • @franciscarodrigues3629

    @franciscarodrigues3629

    5 жыл бұрын

    was scrolling for this comment

  • @arviehernandez2782

    @arviehernandez2782

    5 жыл бұрын

    "I dont know her"

  • @spifftastic87

    @spifftastic87

    5 жыл бұрын

    MAXIMUM shade lololol

  • @el_bastrad
    @el_bastrad5 жыл бұрын

    "Why are songs that people don't understand become so widespread?" *Heard of Despacito?*

  • @jdrawsshit4837

    @jdrawsshit4837

    5 жыл бұрын

    Have you heard of KPOP?

  • @MystikZ

    @MystikZ

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jdrawsshit4837 ew

  • @MIRAAAS

    @MIRAAAS

    5 жыл бұрын

    I think nothing can ever overcome Dragostea Din Tei... not even Gangnam Style

  • @kikearce4081

    @kikearce4081

    5 жыл бұрын

    There’s a lot of people who speak Spanish including myself 🙂

  • @ardoronro6677

    @ardoronro6677

    5 жыл бұрын

    Because language barriers don't mean anything to music.

  • @iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643
    @iparipaitegianiparipaitegi46433 жыл бұрын

    The French version talks about friends you are leaving, singing your hope to see them again one day: ‘it’s a goodbye, not a farewell’.

  • @tlen07

    @tlen07

    3 жыл бұрын

    Growing up in Haiti, that's how it was used to. I always heard it at funerals. It took me a while to get used to hearing it at New Year's Eve parties when I moved to the States 18 years ago.

  • @LeeKeels

    @LeeKeels

    3 жыл бұрын

    That is what it's about in ANY language.

  • @jd-uz1ln

    @jd-uz1ln

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LeeKeels not in the Netherlands mate, didn't you see the vid?

  • @danielbravoval

    @danielbravoval

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same in Spanish

  • @seberangjaya

    @seberangjaya

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same in Malay

  • @saiyajedi
    @saiyajedi5 жыл бұрын

    0:25 It’s not really “about fireflies” in Japan; rather, it’s about the culmination of hard work and diligent scholarship, using a famous story from ancient China. Because of that, the song (usually in 3/4 time) is used at graduations and as an auditory cue that it’s closing time at stores and whatnot.

  • @MrDannyk123

    @MrDannyk123

    5 жыл бұрын

    saiyajedi Well that explains the store comment! The video makes brief mention to it being used at Asian graduations.

  • @krealyesitisbeta5642

    @krealyesitisbeta5642

    4 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @cruzanassassin

    @cruzanassassin

    2 жыл бұрын

    good info!

  • @cys5891

    @cys5891

    Жыл бұрын

    Whats the story from ancient china called

  • @MathsScotland
    @MathsScotland5 жыл бұрын

    Auld Lang Syne is by my tiny country Scotland. It's so great when we see Scotland on a big stage like this!

  • @6thi874

    @6thi874

    5 жыл бұрын

    Satzz Today it’s more Rab C Nesbitt than Rabbie Burns.

  • @soufian2733

    @soufian2733

    5 жыл бұрын

    Didn’t know Scotland was a country

  • @dariomadau

    @dariomadau

    5 жыл бұрын

    Scotland isn’t a country officially tho

  • @adamn7409

    @adamn7409

    5 жыл бұрын

    ArioxGaming it is a country,however it isn’t a sovereign nation

  • @preid122o

    @preid122o

    5 жыл бұрын

    You Scots don't get enough credit, you're the part of the UK that people actually like.

  • @TelzAll
    @TelzAll Жыл бұрын

    Whatever the meaning may be... this song represents the passing of a year and on to another. While not forgetting those who didn't make it, it reminds us that we still have a chance to do more and to be better. Happy New Year everyone!

  • @oteatimeo
    @oteatimeo3 жыл бұрын

    Happy New year everyone. We made it. 1865, 1918, 1945, 2020

  • @Zveebo
    @Zveebo5 жыл бұрын

    In Scotland, it's sung at the end of a ceilidh (sort of traditional gathering with lots of dancing and drinking), but the sentiment is the same - a warm nostalgia for good times spent with good people - with just a hint of melancholy for the passage of time. I'm not very sentimental, but this gets me almost every time.

  • @dakrakenz5314

    @dakrakenz5314

    5 жыл бұрын

    I haven't been to a ceilidh in years...

  • @Torithegreat

    @Torithegreat

    5 жыл бұрын

    I’m from the states, but my grandparents were both from Scotland and happened to land in a community that was largely Scottish. I grew up going to ceilidhs, but haven’t been to one in forever.

  • @eddenoy321

    @eddenoy321

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@dakrakenz5314 We still have them in Alabama but we call them Kay-Lee.

  • @dakrakenz5314

    @dakrakenz5314

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@eddenoy321 that's how it's pronounced

  • @rorymorrison6014

    @rorymorrison6014

    5 жыл бұрын

    God I’m proud to be Scottish!

  • @mikailacadavona6238
    @mikailacadavona62385 жыл бұрын

    dude the ending gave me nostalgic tears

  • @Voltaire8559

    @Voltaire8559

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same!

  • @insiderperson18279

    @insiderperson18279

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad I'm not the only one 🤧

  • @FronkieTheSaltyRat

    @FronkieTheSaltyRat

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @calebking7744
    @calebking77442 жыл бұрын

    How beautiful to see the same sentiment express in so many nationalities. Music really does transcend.

  • @StevenHartono
    @StevenHartono4 жыл бұрын

    Who's still watching this in 2020? Brings me back memories that both bring joy and pain, who can relate?

  • @joannathemadd

    @joannathemadd

    3 жыл бұрын

    I cry every time. It’s my favorite song.

  • @neo7i
    @neo7i5 жыл бұрын

    Happy new year to everyone.

  • @Bro-fy7mz

    @Bro-fy7mz

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cool username

  • @ezrabrooks7785

    @ezrabrooks7785

    5 жыл бұрын

    🖕

  • @65coupestang

    @65coupestang

    5 жыл бұрын

    And happy new years to you as well..!!

  • @mohammadjaffershivamogga4304

    @mohammadjaffershivamogga4304

    5 жыл бұрын

    씨발 nb. ????6$)

  • @65coupestang

    @65coupestang

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's still Clark's show that seacrest is on

  • @_v_r_tt
    @_v_r_tt5 жыл бұрын

    Robert Burns even has his own day in Scotland, were people have an "burns supper" consisting of (the national dish) haggis, Neeps (turnip) and taties (potatoes). Often includes whisky, shortbread traditional songs and dances (as well as Burns Poetry) and most often lots and lots of tartan basically as many stereotypes as you can think of cramped into one night

  • @TheDrummingWarrior

    @TheDrummingWarrior

    5 жыл бұрын

    We celebrate burns night south of the border as well for some reason

  • @theMoporter

    @theMoporter

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eh, most people just buy the Burn's Night supper out of Tesco tbh. We did the meal and nothing else in most everyone I know's houses, anyway. I grew up in Ayrshire so we were all sick to death of him by the time we grew up.

  • @niiii_niiii

    @niiii_niiii

    5 жыл бұрын

    There's a Burn's night here in Ireland in my city every year in a pub called Bobby Byrnes lol, love the neeps, tatties and haggis! Xx

  • @AM-kr4pv

    @AM-kr4pv

    5 жыл бұрын

    it's really funny to hear Burns night be described this way as someone who grew up with it (I grew up in England but have a Scottish dad and now I live here)

  • @georgiesteven

    @georgiesteven

    5 жыл бұрын

    At schools we learn the poems for a Scots verse. I learned all of Tam O’ Shanter last year

  • @annamccormack4101
    @annamccormack41013 жыл бұрын

    Really wasn’t expecting to cry when I watched this.

  • @BrokeDownBob

    @BrokeDownBob

    3 жыл бұрын

    I get it...

  • @rluna727

    @rluna727

    3 жыл бұрын

    In 2020, we all feel nostalgia and a sense of loss.

  • @Thisaccountisnolongeractive37

    @Thisaccountisnolongeractive37

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh.....gosh I almost cried watching this video...... Happy New Year 2021!!! I hope you stay safe and well.

  • @catsadilla324
    @catsadilla3244 жыл бұрын

    it does feel very conclusive. It's like somebody noticed the last of the guests leaving, and they converted that feeling into a song. Beautiful. Sad. Reflective.

  • @bolloggfisch1100
    @bolloggfisch11005 жыл бұрын

    It's really interesting to see how New Year Eve's celebrations differ even in the West. In Austria at midnight, every single church bell in the country starts to ring, as in all TVs and radios the Blue Danube Waltz starts playing, and a few chosen dancers dance to it in the former residence of the emperors

  • @elainelouve

    @elainelouve

    5 жыл бұрын

    In Finland we watch the Strauss concert on every new year's day.:) So tomorrow around noon.

  • @theMoporter

    @theMoporter

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@elainelouve yes, we do that in Scotland too!

  • @parkchimmin7913

    @parkchimmin7913

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bolloggfisch In America, We usually watch the ball drop in Time Square and we watch artists perform there too!

  • @kruks

    @kruks

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@parkchimmin7913 - "Artists" is, perhaps, a strong word.

  • @bb2tempo1

    @bb2tempo1

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year Scythian brothers!

  • @floribo
    @floribo3 жыл бұрын

    In the german scouts movement, Auld Lang Syne is a typical Goodbye-Song, sang at the end of nearly every scouts event. In that respect it is actually used quite similar as in asia (as a song for graduation), or as a New Years Eve song: Some, maybe great thing, ended, and its a farewell to the time in school, or the ending year. Also the japanese use of the melody, fireflies, has something to do with saying goodbye: fireflies are often considered as something emphemeral, that ends quite fast. So the fundamental meening stayed, for most, the same. (edit: only some spelling mistakes were removed ;-) )

  • @marcosdanieldeangelis7648

    @marcosdanieldeangelis7648

    3 жыл бұрын

    we use that song in brazil too, in the end of every scout event. but with ours own lyrics.

  • @carljhunflor3303

    @carljhunflor3303

    3 жыл бұрын

    We also do that here in the Philippines

  • @TheStrictlyAwesome
    @TheStrictlyAwesome5 жыл бұрын

    Aye that’s another thing us scots have brought to the world, nae bother thank us later

  • @jeffbrehove2614

    @jeffbrehove2614

    4 жыл бұрын

    But it never hurts to hear

  • @adamyoung4709

    @adamyoung4709

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂

  • @scottishboi6035

    @scottishboi6035

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aye and coloured tele

  • @katy3901

    @katy3901

    3 жыл бұрын

    I never knew so many other countries also sang it at Hogmany till I was watching US tv.

  • @keetrandling4530

    @keetrandling4530

    3 жыл бұрын

    t'is later, thank ye

  • @ellogs
    @ellogs5 жыл бұрын

    I legit only thought us Scottish people sung this but this is interesting to see

  • @JamesSmith-vk2ky

    @JamesSmith-vk2ky

    5 жыл бұрын

    You don't have CNN? You've never seen New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square in New York? Wtf, dude?

  • @ninaadams5369

    @ninaadams5369

    5 жыл бұрын

    James Smith nah we tragically have the bbc

  • @SpearOfOrnstein

    @SpearOfOrnstein

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@JamesSmith-vk2ky not everyone habitually follows America like a reality TV show mate. I've never even heard Auld Lang Syne in England, it's always been Jules Holland for my family.

  • @razzle_dazzle

    @razzle_dazzle

    5 жыл бұрын

    @SpearOfOrnstein Jules Holland plays Auld Lang Syne. It's when the bagpipers march out.

  • @SpearOfOrnstein

    @SpearOfOrnstein

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@razzle_dazzle Oh? Very well then, I'm just a dipshit. Thanks for the correction.

  • @kymmzej9173
    @kymmzej91735 жыл бұрын

    Didn't know there was a "New Year's Eve Song". *listens to it* Oh yea..

  • @austinmoon6974

    @austinmoon6974

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same, lol!

  • @casseendeestyr4638

    @casseendeestyr4638

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeaaa😆😆😆

  • @redmarvel

    @redmarvel

    5 жыл бұрын

    Then there's Rudolph's version: kzread.info/dash/bejne/mZyFq49sfaraZaQ.html

  • @Allaiya.
    @Allaiya. Жыл бұрын

    Hearing this song play each new year always gets me emotional especially as I get older, loved ones pass on, & friends & family move away. But we gather together again for Christmas and wish each other a new year.

  • @maxmagallanez3757
    @maxmagallanez37573 жыл бұрын

    Who else gets emotional hearing the new year song on new year's

  • @Aalien31
    @Aalien315 жыл бұрын

    In france it's "it's only a goodbye, my brothers" "ce n'est qu'un au revoir, mes frères"

  • @laughingskuls7000

    @laughingskuls7000

    5 жыл бұрын

    more like "see you soon"

  • @TheRobRok

    @TheRobRok

    5 жыл бұрын

    In Catalonia it's "L'hora dels adéus" It's time to say Goodbye

  • @stevenleejojo

    @stevenleejojo

    5 жыл бұрын

    In Germany it's: "Farewell, my brothers, close the circle, till all will have returned, the future lies in darkness, and weights heavy on our hearts." (Nehmt Abschied Brüder, schließt den Kreis, biss Aller Wiederkehr, die Zukunft liegt in Finsternis, und macht das Herz uns schwer.)

  • @forrest7690

    @forrest7690

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's also used in French Canadian culture, especially in Scouts and such (I was in Canadian Scouts for a few years myself) but yeah for me too, it's a more sad song, for goodbyes.

  • @stevenleejojo

    @stevenleejojo

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@forrest7690 I also know it through the scouts here in Germany

  • @eutatsu
    @eutatsu5 жыл бұрын

    In Catalonia it's a goodbye song, we sing it while holding hands in a circle like shown at 1:43 whenever someone leaves or everyone goes in their own way after a long journey, for example I changed schools 5 years ago, and on the last day I was there all of my class sung it toghether.

  • @maximilianopena

    @maximilianopena

    5 жыл бұрын

    Funny, I was wondering if this song is common on hispanic countries, I don't think I've heard it in Argentina.

  • @jayowen7192

    @jayowen7192

    5 жыл бұрын

    Eutatsu That’s kind of beautiful really.

  • @wallynicholas5
    @wallynicholas53 жыл бұрын

    Can’t believe 2020 is almost over let’s make 2021 a year to remember

  • @ismael1559

    @ismael1559

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wally Nicholas I will make it a year to remember by running 510 miles in 2021

  • @mensaswede4028

    @mensaswede4028

    3 жыл бұрын

    2020 is the year to remember. It will be celebrated as humanity’s finest hour, a testament to human persistence and adaptation, when all the world’s people withstood the worst that nature could throw at us.

  • @bennemann

    @bennemann

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mensaswede4028 Do you really believe the soppy stuff you're saying? A disease that kills only a small percentage of people it infects is "the worst nature could throw at us"? You seem to suffer from a distinct lack of both imagination and knowledge of past events. For the former, study about what global warming will cause in the next few decades. For the latter, you can go read about, for example, the Black Plague and the Spanish Flu.

  • @mensaswede4028

    @mensaswede4028

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bennemann You’re quite presumptuous to conclude that I “lack imagination” based on a couple of sentences in a you tube comment, wherein one makes a brief and therefore incomplete statement about a global event. Based on this, there’s a case to made that it is you who lack imagination. Nonetheless, the only reason covid was not as bad as the Spanish flu was because most smart people mobilized to prevent it’s uncontrolled spread. If COVID had occurred in the early 1900’s then a much higher percentage of people would have died. The reason so few people died from a novel virus that no one had any immunity against is because of our technology. So yes, I do believe that the fact that so few people died in this pandemic, is a testament to human ingenuity. Look, it wasn’t a 3-mile diameter asteroid that hit the earth, so there’s a little poetic license in saying “worst nature could throw at us”, but there’s a good chance that it will be the worst nature will throw at us in most of our lifetimes. I’m much more worried about the national debt of the United States growing to the point of the collapse we saw in Greece, compared to global warming, but that is another conversation.

  • @amiryashifa4191

    @amiryashifa4191

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well now 2021 is coming to an end. Time flies.

  • @cartooncottage2024
    @cartooncottage20242 жыл бұрын

    It's one of those songs that gives you a nostalgic vibe and might even make you shed a tear a little.

  • @alfugs11
    @alfugs115 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year Lieutenant Dan....

  • @lex5768

    @lex5768

    5 жыл бұрын

    That part

  • @718Gilbert

    @718Gilbert

    5 жыл бұрын

    She tastes like cigah-rettss

  • @thankyounext365

    @thankyounext365

    5 жыл бұрын

    Got me in the heart

  • @skixian

    @skixian

    5 жыл бұрын

    Damn forest gump reference

  • @65coupestang

    @65coupestang

    5 жыл бұрын

    About time someone pointed that out sorry I don't intend to sound snarky it's not my intention..!!

  • @AdriaOliSal
    @AdriaOliSal5 жыл бұрын

    I Catalonia we sing this song to say goodbye to someone we love. Normally when a group breaks apart because some members go away. We hold hands together and make a circle and sing it and it's a very beautiful moment

  • @risatisone123
    @risatisone1233 жыл бұрын

    In 2020, probably the new year song will be sang around the world with bittersweet and sad memories for those who've lost their lives to Covid and many other troubles in the world. Where ever you are happy Holidays from my part of the world to yours 🤗🤗🤗

  • @yekker2245
    @yekker22453 жыл бұрын

    This song always makes me emotional 😢

  • @Dugster105
    @Dugster1055 жыл бұрын

    Just watched this as a Scottish guy and I had no idea the world used this song so much, I just thought it was sung at the end of ceilidhs.

  • @6thi874

    @6thi874

    5 жыл бұрын

    Dugster_105 Instead it’s used for world wide piss ups! Who knew? 🤣🤣

  • @RedZeshinX

    @RedZeshinX

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pretty much all of the United States sings this song at New Years across all six time zones, especially at the Times Square ball drop in New York just as all the fireworks go off, it's basically the official anthem for New Years over here. 🎊🎉

  • @littleredarmy3176

    @littleredarmy3176

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@RedZeshinX NO everybody in England sings it, I assumed this was only a British custom but saying all of america sings it can't be true.

  • @RedZeshinX

    @RedZeshinX

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@littleredarmy3176 Go watch literally ANY New Years celebration from the U.S., Auld Lang Syne is without exception the one song they play all around the nation as soon as New Years hits, whether in cities or small towns it's THE song for ringing in the new year.

  • @Dugster105

    @Dugster105

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@6thi874 what do you mean instead, you have clearly never been to a ceilidh

  • @shresthabasak7737
    @shresthabasak77375 жыл бұрын

    Rabindranath Tagor was inspired by this melody and used it in one of his bangla songs, "Purano Sei Diner Kotha." The lyrics are mostly about old memories, old friends. This song is often sung in graduation ceremonies and reunions along with "Auld Lang Syne"

  • @shresthabasak7737

    @shresthabasak7737

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@maeshamarium Shubho Noboborsho Maesha!! Are you from Bangladesh? 🇧🇩

  • @shresthabasak7737

    @shresthabasak7737

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@maeshamarium I am from Bangladesh too. 🇧🇩

  • @knockshinnoch1950
    @knockshinnoch19505 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year, from Scotland! A well researched, accurate history of the traditional song that is used to welcome in the New Year at "the bells" (the stroke of Midnight from Big Ben's bell in London).

  • @patrickconnor3035
    @patrickconnor30355 жыл бұрын

    SCOTLAND this song is best played on the bagpipes

  • @scottishboi6035

    @scottishboi6035

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup

  • @miriamrebekahshapiro4671
    @miriamrebekahshapiro46715 жыл бұрын

    Why did this video make me cry?

  • @jaredmaples1759

    @jaredmaples1759

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same. That damn song. And Harry and Sally finally giving in.😂

  • @jasmineskyy4964

    @jasmineskyy4964

    5 жыл бұрын

    Menstruated cycle

  • @mrkrabs4959

    @mrkrabs4959

    5 жыл бұрын

    Cause you need to toughen up

  • @anandadaquino3604

    @anandadaquino3604

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm crying too hahahaa no joke

  • @alexanderson3197

    @alexanderson3197

    4 жыл бұрын

    It means we have feelings and emotions bundle up inside of us.

  • @aqiiiiiiiil
    @aqiiiiiiiil5 жыл бұрын

    In my country this song is use as separation song. It start with “Bertemu dan perpisahan adat manusia biasa” mean “meeting and separating is part of being human”

  • @jayfawn8478

    @jayfawn8478

    5 жыл бұрын

    Indo

  • @TheAlps36

    @TheAlps36

    5 жыл бұрын

    Selamat tahun baru!

  • @maidosama

    @maidosama

    5 жыл бұрын

    malaysia ya?

  • @aqiiiiiiiil

    @aqiiiiiiiil

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yes, nice meeting you. @@maidosama

  • @aqiiiiiiiil

    @aqiiiiiiiil

    5 жыл бұрын

    Sorry for the late reply, but I guess I'm gonna wish Selamat Tahun Baru to you also. Hope this year you can reach milestone of achievement.@@TheAlps36

  • @djjohb
    @djjohb6 ай бұрын

    I always rewatch this episode every end of the year 😊 Happy almost New Year Vox!

  • @onegemini420
    @onegemini4206 ай бұрын

    Thank you, I love bits of history like this. Especially for something where I had no idea why this has become the traditional song to start a New Year.

  • @fennicfoxy3927
    @fennicfoxy39275 жыл бұрын

    In Scotland, (or at least the part i live in, Glasgow) the song is usually used as a wedding dance/song, and is played at Ceilidh's ( that are just parties where you have all the old partner dances and stuff, that also happen at weddings in Scotland) but also are played at New Year's Parties aswell. (but again, sometimes we call them ceilidh's.)

  • @alifloydtv

    @alifloydtv

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's done beyond Glesga too, don't worry ;)

  • @angstmadewizard
    @angstmadewizard5 жыл бұрын

    In my country, Peru, it’s a song called “Jipi Jay” sung in an Afro-Peruvian music style: Festejo. The lyrics are related to saying goodbye to friends, but looking forward to seeing each other again to sing together. It’s also a really nostalgic song, although we don’t sing it for NYE. I was really surprised when I found out it’s a song from Scotland 😱 Hope you found this interesting. Happy new year, everyone!!!

  • @alexn.2901

    @alexn.2901

    5 жыл бұрын

    By Pepe Vasquez??

  • @angstmadewizard

    @angstmadewizard

    5 жыл бұрын

    Alex N. The one and only

  • @Nabby933
    @Nabby9333 жыл бұрын

    Being Scottish i just love this song but this year Hogmanay is going to be hard for my gran not having my grandad

  • @EvilNeuro_IITPP
    @EvilNeuro_IITPP6 ай бұрын

    HAPPY 2024 nostalgic song for 2023 to pass

  • @HMASbogan
    @HMASbogan5 жыл бұрын

    It really sucks when your birthday is today :/

  • @geremygallenero4300

    @geremygallenero4300

    5 жыл бұрын

    Its been a hard year for me. I hope yours was better. Happy New Year and Happy Birthday

  • @kaypat23

    @kaypat23

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy birthday!

  • @HMASbogan

    @HMASbogan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@kaypat23 thanks!

  • @HMASbogan

    @HMASbogan

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sj6215 thanks and happy new year!

  • @1jordy11

    @1jordy11

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy new year and birth year

  • @trblessed1020
    @trblessed10203 жыл бұрын

    This song gives me all the feels

  • @ariadnegmusdaedaloximo708
    @ariadnegmusdaedaloximo7084 жыл бұрын

    I'm here after repeatedly hearing it in When Harry Met Sally, The Apartment, and It's a Wonderful Life.

  • @acasualcactus5878
    @acasualcactus58783 жыл бұрын

    May 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind!

  • @PavarottiAardvark
    @PavarottiAardvark5 жыл бұрын

    Ok everyone, we need to get one thing clear: The line is "we'll tak a drop o' kindness here, for auld lang syne". it does NOT go "for the SAKE of auld lang syne" If you add in the 'sake', then you are singing "for the sake of old times sake", which is nonsense.

  • @Albinojackrussel

    @Albinojackrussel

    5 жыл бұрын

    And if you don't it doesn't even begin to scan. Better to have a tautology than that musical mess

  • @PavarottiAardvark

    @PavarottiAardvark

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@Albinojackrussel It scans fine. Are you saying that Burns got it wrong?

  • @mikep9850

    @mikep9850

    5 жыл бұрын

    “Good point. But it feels better to sing a syllable for each note. And people will adjust to nonsensical lyrics.” - Beyoncé

  • @msMuffet.

    @msMuffet.

    5 жыл бұрын

    It actually does make sense, but sounds worse.

  • @masha2855

    @masha2855

    5 жыл бұрын

    ??? Im from Scotland and I've never heard anyone sing it "for the sake" all I've heard is " o' tak a cup o' kindness dear" or "we'll tak a drop o' kindness here"

  • @cynicap8584
    @cynicap85845 жыл бұрын

    >Be me. >Filipino >9:00 PM >Watching this instead of having fun with family >Don't get me wrong, good video. >Happy tho Happy new year guys

  • @leodahvee

    @leodahvee

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same situation here

  • @kimoporto56

    @kimoporto56

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same here 😂

  • @tonicaulfield294

    @tonicaulfield294

    5 жыл бұрын

    me too!

  • @citrus2153

    @citrus2153

    5 жыл бұрын

    Maligayang bagong taon! Hahaha

  • @HudaefCares

    @HudaefCares

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kaway sa mga kapwa Pinoy dyan! Manigong bagong taon!

  • @mclpimendozaabayan9565
    @mclpimendozaabayan95653 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year everyone 🎆🎊🎉 I hope this pandemic would be gone soon. Love from Philippines

  • @Eric-qe6xz
    @Eric-qe6xz4 жыл бұрын

    It's 2020 and we're still playing this in the few moments after New Year. I think those few moments between the arrival of the new year and the beginning of "New York, New York" are serene and almost heavenly, and the best few moments of the year.

  • @ggjune7392
    @ggjune73925 жыл бұрын

    I remember singing this song with my classmates in my last year of primary school at the end of the last Christmas play we would be a part of. Brings back so many memories I thought I had forgotten about.

  • @cooperolm9687
    @cooperolm96875 жыл бұрын

    My grandmother spent a few years teaching in China, and took up playing the hulusi. She was surprised to find Auld Lang Syne in her music books, and after bringing it up to her teachers discovered that in China they think it's a traditional Chinese song! They wouldn't believe her when she said it was Scottish in origins.

  • @ericylchan8925
    @ericylchan89253 жыл бұрын

    6:21 “If you don’t know the words, sing along anyways” and a picture of Mariah Carey. Touché Vox, touché.

  • @leviperez6440
    @leviperez64403 жыл бұрын

    Can’t wait to sing this at home alone🥲

  • @nicholaspearse2222
    @nicholaspearse22225 жыл бұрын

    This so late, kiribati has been in a new year for 8 hours already

  • @lunayen

    @lunayen

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well, Happy New year! I'm still waiting for it to end.

  • @memealert3023
    @memealert30235 жыл бұрын

    in Finland I know it's at least sung in the scouts with the lyrics about undying friendship and so on. I never knew it was even a new year song?? Interesting how very old traditional pieces of music can travel the world and end up with completely different lyrics and therefore meanings.

  • @henrytherobot
    @henrytherobot5 жыл бұрын

    Wishing you all a great 2019!👍

  • @jaredmaples1759

    @jaredmaples1759

    5 жыл бұрын

    To you as well 😊🎉

  • @iamarizonaball2642

    @iamarizonaball2642

    3 жыл бұрын

    You mean 2021?

  • @reidroche267

    @reidroche267

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@iamarizonaball2642 To a great 2021!

  • @cerca-ej4bc

    @cerca-ej4bc

    3 жыл бұрын

    This didn't age well

  • @tyrranicalt-rad6164
    @tyrranicalt-rad61643 жыл бұрын

    Nah...it's the walking home drunk in the snow song with a bottle in your in your hand full of new years cheer ! 🍻

  • @David-ol9ig
    @David-ol9ig5 жыл бұрын

    Nederland oohh Nederland, wij zijn nu kampioen, wij houden van oranje voor zijn daden en zijn doen.

  • @javholmes
    @javholmes3 жыл бұрын

    I'm going to play this song the day before 2021,to grieve all those that passed in 2020.

  • @DinoHF79
    @DinoHF793 жыл бұрын

    I remember listening to Guy Lombardo's version when I was a child in the 60's. It always makes me cry.

  • @kayak0000
    @kayak00003 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year 2021!

  • @1D991
    @1D9915 жыл бұрын

    Aye where my Scotts at?

  • @themadhappyness8836

    @themadhappyness8836

    5 жыл бұрын

    Danz McNabb aye

  • @leojoseph8823

    @leojoseph8823

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yassss Mon eh scotland

  • @braddmaccameron9102

    @braddmaccameron9102

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's sad about passing friends and family we'll .raise a pint though.

  • @marklundy17

    @marklundy17

    5 жыл бұрын

    Whisky *

  • @mcquillanraces

    @mcquillanraces

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@marklundy17 bet me to it

  • @_wheeler8601
    @_wheeler86015 жыл бұрын

    This has always been a sad song for me without even knowing any of the words. A song to remind you of everyone's slipping youth and the lifelong scars of having to draw another breathe when some else you know didn't.

  • @isaiahbasaldua924
    @isaiahbasaldua924 Жыл бұрын

    Who knew an old scots song would live long after it's publishing. Each time we see sing Auld Lang Syne we pay homage to an old Scottish folk song. Remembering the simplicity of a great people.

  • @cass__8691
    @cass__86914 жыл бұрын

    Who’s watching it in November 2019?? Time is going by so fast 😩😩

  • @shoface1798

    @shoface1798

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lovely Angelique fr

  • @naphxing

    @naphxing

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @HTPCYMC
    @HTPCYMC5 жыл бұрын

    See you all next year xd

  • @FancyGonkBoi

    @FancyGonkBoi

    5 жыл бұрын

    yes

  • @Thatguy-nh4by

    @Thatguy-nh4by

    5 жыл бұрын

    Please drink me

  • @dzurgon

    @dzurgon

    5 жыл бұрын

    Quirkyyyyyy ✨✨✨✨✨

  • @afreakingweeb3060

    @afreakingweeb3060

    5 жыл бұрын

    See you in 2020

  • @wingus857

    @wingus857

    5 жыл бұрын

    What a side-splitter

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin30875 жыл бұрын

    Happy New year's from Australia

  • @WRGOP

    @WRGOP

    5 жыл бұрын

    Salokin happy New Years!

  • @frisk4520

    @frisk4520

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@WRGOP But, it's still 2018.

  • @WRGOP

    @WRGOP

    5 жыл бұрын

    Frisk if you knew who I was then you would understand...

  • @Aviationlord7742

    @Aviationlord7742

    5 жыл бұрын

    Happy new year from an Aussie in Thailand

  • @averagecabbage6958
    @averagecabbage69583 жыл бұрын

    we're gonna need a new song for 2020

  • @hildaelson4203
    @hildaelson42033 жыл бұрын

    In Thailand, it’s a song of unity, sung for scouts.

  • @caroleotta
    @caroleotta3 жыл бұрын

    I cannot thank you enough for this video, it's absolute perfection, thanks a million times! And happy holidays from Buenos Aires!

  • @bacul165
    @bacul1653 жыл бұрын

    I don't know why this popped up now, early December 2020, but the thought of this terrible year to end, with me being on my own on new years eve due to necessary restrictions... Yeah, it got me in tears. Or is it just the really maudlin song?

  • @drewcampbell8555

    @drewcampbell8555

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's about friendship, and kinship, and shared memories. It's beautiful, and it's universal, not maudlin at all. So enjoy it, friend, and don't be ashamed of the tears. x

  • @daanvisser2325
    @daanvisser23255 жыл бұрын

    I’m Dutch and every time I hear this melody, I single along the lyrics in my head. 🇳🇱

  • @rashikajmain9180
    @rashikajmain91804 жыл бұрын

    A Bengali song sung in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh called 'Purano Sei Diner Kotha' (means memories of the good old days) written by Rabindranath Tagore is directly inspired from 'Auld Lang Syne'. Melody is little different but both songs have exact same meanings. This Bengali song is usually sung in farewell ceremonies like last day at school, collage or university.

  • @jeanbonnefoy1377
    @jeanbonnefoy13775 жыл бұрын

    An interesting fact is that in France, as far as I know, this song has never been associated with the New Year: it is very well known but as a Gospel and/or a sailors' song, about departing, at sea or from life, under the title "Ce n'est qu'un au-revoir", a nostalgic hymn about meeting again... In another life

  • @Starr_Podcastofficial

    @Starr_Podcastofficial

    4 жыл бұрын

    It is used in thousand different forms and for thousand different occasions in thousand different parts of the world. That's a classic right there.

  • @jacktheluckyguy7248
    @jacktheluckyguy72485 жыл бұрын

    Another year, Another 365 days, The days that pasted, we will never forget. Goodbye 2018, it had a good run. Welcome 2019, it's a new start.

  • @kato4792

    @kato4792

    5 жыл бұрын

    11:41 *California* See ya there!

  • @arrie6054
    @arrie60543 жыл бұрын

    There is also a Bengali version of this song written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. And has almost the same meaning as in the Scottish version.

  • @Independence1974
    @Independence1974 Жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful explanation and records of this timeless classic! Robert Burns would be so proud. Thank you.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem675 жыл бұрын

    2019 here in Asia, Can confirm it’s better than 2018

  • @CommunalPissRug

    @CommunalPissRug

    4 жыл бұрын

    i- uhh.... hate to be the bearer of bad news but Hong Kong, my dude, Hong Kong

  • @panjoshua6251
    @panjoshua62515 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who was like "There's a New Year's song??" lol

  • @stephaniesummer2663

    @stephaniesummer2663

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pan Joshua Same

  • @sarahgreen1029

    @sarahgreen1029

    5 жыл бұрын

    Is it only an American thing?

  • @melonheaded

    @melonheaded

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahgreen1029 yea only american

  • @victoriablue5618

    @victoriablue5618

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's known here in India as the New Year's song of USA (when the ball drops?), thanks to Hollywood movies. Not famous tho

  • @zakthegamergoose3771

    @zakthegamergoose3771

    5 жыл бұрын

    Same

  • @btrixlestrange6432
    @btrixlestrange64323 жыл бұрын

    Who's here in 2020? So stoked to emd this year!

  • @tiktokmemes-gb6fb
    @tiktokmemes-gb6fb2 жыл бұрын

    This song make me cry for no idea

  • @victorbuban1455
    @victorbuban14555 жыл бұрын

    Happy New Year everyone! Bonne Année à tous!

  • @kosukemiura1226

    @kosukemiura1226

    5 жыл бұрын

    bone annie to you to

  • @il23li
    @il23li3 жыл бұрын

    who's here on New Years Day 2021?

  • @laurallewien2165
    @laurallewien21659 ай бұрын

    This song always makes me very emotional and I tear up a bit 😢 fond memories of my grandma and Guy Lombardo

  • @arim2011
    @arim20113 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the explanation! I also love that you included the When Harry Met Sally clips referencing this.

  • @shaun1293
    @shaun12935 жыл бұрын

    Auld Lang Syne sounds best with bagpipes.

  • @oscarjavierobregonquinones546

    @oscarjavierobregonquinones546

    5 жыл бұрын

    BaBu ni

  • @likklesmellyduck

    @likklesmellyduck

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's the only thing that sounds good on bagpipes

  • @cameronbeattie3087

    @cameronbeattie3087

    5 жыл бұрын

    laser325 liesssssssss

  • @jacquelinewalker5006
    @jacquelinewalker50063 жыл бұрын

    Happy New year y'all .This song always bring me to tears with the memories of family and friends who has passed like I'm leaving them behind 2020 was one of those year so I wanted to know the origin of this song .All the best for 2021 .Love and Peace

  • @johnt.7954

    @johnt.7954

    3 жыл бұрын

    happy new year to you too

  • @redplays7678
    @redplays76785 ай бұрын

    Its feels sad and happy at the same time. Like you're sad they have to leave but was thankful for the moments they were with you

  • @ImJustAHacker123
    @ImJustAHacker1234 жыл бұрын

    Guy Lombardo's version made NYC ball drop like a funeral

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