What the hell does "Auld Lang Syne" mean?

[lpbk2713]

And why do we drink a cup of kindness to it? I ought to know this cause my mother's parents were both from Scotland but I have no idea.

[jackelope72]

1. Old Long Age n/t

[Khephra]

2. "Are we drunk yet?"

:evilgrin:

[MissBrooks]

3. good question...

I would love to know the answer to that.

[Benhurst]

4. I think it means "Is that laddie flashing the English queen again?" NT

[deminks]

5. Translation

Here is my favorite translation:

Should old friendship be forgot'
And never remembered ?
Should old friendship be forgotten,
And days of long ago.

And surely you will have your tankard !
And surely I will have mine !
And we will take a cup of kindness yet,
For days of long ago'

We two have run about the hills
And pulled the daisies fine :
But we have wandered many a weary foot
Since days of long ago.

We two have waded in the stream
From dawn till dinner-time :
But seas between us broad have roared
Since days of long ago.

And there's a hand my trusty friend !
And give me a hand of thine !
And we will take a large draught
For days of long ago.
:toast:

[shance]

7. You rock****Thank ya!!

Cheers back atcha.

:toast:

[ailsagirl]

6. It's from a poem by Robert ("Robbie") Burns

"auld lang syne" can be translated, roughly, as "old long ago."

Of course Auld Lang Syne is more than a New Year's song. It is one of the great expressions of the tragic ambiguity of man's relation to time, which mixes memory with desire, carrying away old friendships and bringing new, turning childhood escapades into old men's recollections, making change the very condition of consciousness, and at the same time the creator and the destroyer of human experience. All this is done in the purest folk idiom, with no abstract statements or generalizations, except for the chorus itself, which states in simple but powerful terms the question that lies at the heart of so much human emotion.

http://www.tamoshanter.free-online.co.uk/Auldls.htm

I don't know about anyone else, but I have always found it to be very sad.