Auld Lang Syne

I really hadn't thought of a New Years resolution until about 12:00:02 am on January 1, 2009. Forget losing weight, giving money to charity, being nicer to people, etc....I will save that for more caring people. I found a very important resolution that I must do.

Since New Years is my favorite Holiday I feel that I really need to learn the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne as well as find out the meaning of the song and where it came from.

I love the song and always butcher it each year since never took time to learn or know what the song was. Each year whether drunk or sober (mainly drunk) I've usually sang the song (hummed most of it) like this:

Mike Doolan Lyrics

Should old acquaintance be forgot
and never hmmmm, hmmm, HMMMMMM?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
and days of old ang sign?
For old ang sign, my dear,
for old ang sign,
we'll blah, blah, blah, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmm,
for old ang sign.

Then repeat a lot of humming similar to the first verse...

Please hold me accountable and make sure that on 1/1/10 at 12:00:00am I know the meaning and I'm singing the below lyrics so I don't have to hum the song another year.

Auld Lang Syne Lyrics

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here'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

Background: The song, "Auld Lang Syne," is sung at the stroke of midnight in nearly every English-speaking country in the world to welcome the New Year. Early variations of the song were sung in the 17th century. But writer Robert Burns was inspired to recompose a modern rendition, and the revised version was published in 1796, after Burns' death. An old Scotch tune, "Auld Lang Syne" literally means "old long ago," or simply, "the good old days."