LL-L: "Lyrics" LOWLANDS-L, 31.DEC.1999 (02) [E/S/Gaelic]

[Lowlands-L Administrator]

 ========================================================================
 L O W L A N D S - L * 31.DEC.1999 (02) * ISSN 189-5582 * LCSN 96-4226
 Posting Address: <lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org>
 Web Site: <http://www.geocities.com/~sassisch/rhahn//lowlands/>
 User's Manual: <http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8c/userindex.html>
 =========================================================================
 A=Afrikaans, Ap=Appalachean, D=Dutch, E=English, F=Frisian, L=Limburgish
 LS=Low Saxon (Low German), S=Scots, Sh=Shetlandic
 =========================================================================
 You have received this because your account has been subscribed upon
 request. To unsubscribe, please send the command "signoff lowlands-l"
 as message text from the same account to
 <listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org> or sign off at
 <http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html>.
 =========================================================================

From: Margaret Tarbet [oneko at mindspring.com]
Subject: "Lyrics"

John Tait sgriobh:

>The version in my (old battered 2nd hand) edition of Burns corresponds with
>the version provided by Colin rather than with this one. Anything in this
>edition about using different sources?

My copy (from _Burns Poems and Songs_, Jas. Kinsley, ed.  Oxford:
1969, which his intro says is ca. 80% from Burns's own holograph mss
and virtually all the balance from contemp. sources Burns would have
vetted) gives:

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 jo,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup[1] o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fitt,
Sin auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
Frae morning sun til dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd,
Sin auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right gude-willie-waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

----------------
1.  Burns's own footnote:  Some sing, Kiss, in place of Cup.

A gey fine Millennial New Year tae yez aa!   An mind ye dinnae
fergit First Foot!

Slainte mhath!
Margaret Màiri

==================================END======================================
 * Please submit contributions to <lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org>.
 * Contributions will be displayed unedited in digest form.
 * Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
 * Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l") are
   to be sent to <listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org> or at
   <http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html>.
 * Please use only Plain Text format, not Rich Text (HTML) or any other
   type of format, in your submissions
 =========================================================================