The New Year's Eve song, explained

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  • Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
  • 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
    @Vox  5 лет назад +2216

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

  • @HikariTheGardevoir
    @HikariTheGardevoir 5 лет назад +463

    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 Год назад +8

      😄

    • @Lawbringer.
      @Lawbringer. Год назад

      "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 месяцев назад +1

      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 месяцев назад +1

      Hahah love that. This song hits different knowing the history

    • @MZMA85
      @MZMA85 3 месяца назад

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

  • @tcsnowdream9975
    @tcsnowdream9975 5 лет назад +2626

    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 лет назад +219

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

    • @kitneyspears
      @kitneyspears 5 лет назад +20

      that’s so cool! :)

    • @reiradesu
      @reiradesu 5 лет назад +15

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

    • @MrGraymark
      @MrGraymark 5 лет назад +40

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

    • @yoon9521
      @yoon9521 5 лет назад +19

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

  • @natashaxnichole
    @natashaxnichole 5 лет назад +1187

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

    • @dktens
      @dktens 5 лет назад +43

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

    • @catsadilla324
      @catsadilla324 4 года назад +38

      ♫ 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 года назад +6

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

    • @scottishboi6035
      @scottishboi6035 3 года назад +7

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

    • @lindsay556
      @lindsay556 3 года назад +3

      Yes, yes we do

  • @TenThumbsProductions
    @TenThumbsProductions 5 лет назад +684

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

    • @thinhnonyt
      @thinhnonyt 3 года назад +5

      Still got it in Oz, mostly Pub Rock songs.

    • @Lil-ie6xw
      @Lil-ie6xw 3 года назад

      CHEERS

    • @goodactiondaily8779
      @goodactiondaily8779 3 года назад +2

      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 года назад +1

      Just don't use the word vibe

    • @melle3326
      @melle3326 3 года назад

      @@Bella_Nekro it was used grammatically correct here i believe

  • @scifikoala
    @scifikoala 5 лет назад +285

    This song always makes me cry, practically on command

    • @missyhudson2548
      @missyhudson2548 3 года назад +16

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

    • @Allaiya.
      @Allaiya. Год назад +7

      It always makes me tear up

  • @trexvanguard2772
    @trexvanguard2772 4 года назад +480

    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 года назад +10

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

    • @cammysmith7562
      @cammysmith7562 2 года назад +39

      @@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 Год назад

      @@cammysmith7562 Cool Cammy

    • @daizdamien1409
      @daizdamien1409 Год назад

      nice coat

    • @LeHarmacist
      @LeHarmacist 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @andrew4363
    @andrew4363 3 года назад +494

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

    • @katy3901
      @katy3901 3 года назад +17

      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 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @melle3326
      @melle3326 3 года назад +1

      @@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 года назад

      @@rahinc Can i slip in?

    • @Lyerbait13
      @Lyerbait13 8 месяцев назад

      Lol

  • @Tony.H03
    @Tony.H03 3 года назад +330

    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 года назад +14

      'Friends', your joking, right?

    • @ljhb48
      @ljhb48 3 года назад +72

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

    • @morganjones638
      @morganjones638 3 года назад +14

      @@ljhb48 As do Londoners!

    • @tejasdhami8734
      @tejasdhami8734 3 года назад

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

    • @user-cl7yr
      @user-cl7yr 3 года назад +13

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

  • @kaguth
    @kaguth 5 лет назад +2209

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

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 5 лет назад +35

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

    • @ezrabrooks7785
      @ezrabrooks7785 5 лет назад +28

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

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 5 лет назад +10

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

    • @BothHands1
      @BothHands1 5 лет назад +1

      It's irish whiskey for me!

    • @steveasare6135
      @steveasare6135 5 лет назад

      @@ezrabrooks7785 yooo

  • @saiyajedi
    @saiyajedi 5 лет назад +535

    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 лет назад +10

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

    • @krealyesitisbeta5642
      @krealyesitisbeta5642 4 года назад

      👍

    • @cruzanassassin
      @cruzanassassin 2 года назад

      good info!

    • @cys5891
      @cys5891 Год назад

      Whats the story from ancient china called

  • @iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643
    @iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643 3 года назад +200

    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 года назад +10

      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 года назад +2

      That is what it's about in ANY language.

    • @jd-uz1ln
      @jd-uz1ln 3 года назад +1

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

    • @danielbravoval
      @danielbravoval 3 года назад

      Same in Spanish

    • @seberangjaya
      @seberangjaya 3 года назад

      Same in Malay

  • @TelzAll
    @TelzAll Год назад +65

    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!

  • @lilik7708
    @lilik7708 5 лет назад +653

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

  • @Zveebo
    @Zveebo 5 лет назад +533

    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 лет назад +7

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

    • @Torithegreat
      @Torithegreat 5 лет назад +6

      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 лет назад +1

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

    • @dakrakenz5314
      @dakrakenz5314 5 лет назад +12

      @@eddenoy321 that's how it's pronounced

    • @rorymorrison6014
      @rorymorrison6014 5 лет назад +2

      God I’m proud to be Scottish!

  • @el_bastrad
    @el_bastrad 5 лет назад +1080

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

    • @jdrawsshit4837
      @jdrawsshit4837 5 лет назад +59

      Have you heard of KPOP?

    • @MystikZ
      @MystikZ 5 лет назад +27

      @@jdrawsshit4837 ew

    • @MIRAAAS
      @MIRAAAS 5 лет назад +19

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

    • @kikearce4081
      @kikearce4081 5 лет назад +2

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

    • @ardoronro6677
      @ardoronro6677 5 лет назад +11

      Because language barriers don't mean anything to music.

  • @oteatimeo
    @oteatimeo 3 года назад +42

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

  • @MathsScotland
    @MathsScotland 5 лет назад +637

    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 лет назад +4

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

    • @soufian2733
      @soufian2733 5 лет назад +11

      Didn’t know Scotland was a country

    • @dariomadau
      @dariomadau 5 лет назад +8

      Scotland isn’t a country officially tho

    • @adamn7409
      @adamn7409 5 лет назад +29

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

    • @preid122o
      @preid122o 5 лет назад +60

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

  • @StevenHartono
    @StevenHartono 4 года назад +87

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

    • @joannathemadd
      @joannathemadd 3 года назад +2

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

  • @calebking7744
    @calebking7744 2 года назад +34

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

  • @neo7i
    @neo7i 5 лет назад +850

    Happy new year to everyone.

  • @mikailacadavona6238
    @mikailacadavona6238 5 лет назад +163

    dude the ending gave me nostalgic tears

  • @Allaiya.
    @Allaiya. Год назад +11

    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.

  • @catsadilla324
    @catsadilla324 4 года назад +24

    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.

  • @_v_r_tt
    @_v_r_tt 5 лет назад +196

    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 лет назад +3

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

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter 5 лет назад +2

      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 лет назад +4

      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 лет назад +3

      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 лет назад +2

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

  • @kymmzej9173
    @kymmzej9173 5 лет назад +484

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

  • @TheStrictlyAwesome
    @TheStrictlyAwesome 5 лет назад +619

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

    • @jeffbrehove2614
      @jeffbrehove2614 4 года назад +5

      But it never hurts to hear

    • @adamyoung4709
      @adamyoung4709 4 года назад +4

      😂😂

    • @scottishboi6035
      @scottishboi6035 3 года назад +6

      Aye and coloured tele

    • @katy3901
      @katy3901 3 года назад +5

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

    • @keetrandling4530
      @keetrandling4530 3 года назад +3

      t'is later, thank ye

  • @floribo
    @floribo 3 года назад +75

    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 года назад +2

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

    • @carljhunflor3303
      @carljhunflor3303 3 года назад +1

      We also do that here in the Philippines

  • @bolloggfisch1100
    @bolloggfisch1100 5 лет назад +440

    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 лет назад +33

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

    • @theMoporter
      @theMoporter 5 лет назад +10

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

    • @parkchimmin7913
      @parkchimmin7913 5 лет назад +19

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

    • @kruks
      @kruks 5 лет назад +15

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

    • @bb2tempo1
      @bb2tempo1 5 лет назад

      Happy New Year Scythian brothers!

  • @eutatsu
    @eutatsu 5 лет назад +48

    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 лет назад +2

      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 лет назад +3

      Eutatsu That’s kind of beautiful really.

  • @annamccormack4101
    @annamccormack4101 3 года назад +35

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

    • @BrokeDownBob
      @BrokeDownBob 3 года назад +1

      I get it...

    • @rluna727
      @rluna727 3 года назад +2

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

    • @Thisaccountisnolongeractive37
      @Thisaccountisnolongeractive37 3 года назад

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

  • @risatisone123
    @risatisone123 3 года назад +35

    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 🤗🤗🤗

  • @alfugs11
    @alfugs11 5 лет назад +364

    Happy New Year Lieutenant Dan....

    • @lex5768
      @lex5768 5 лет назад +3

      That part

    • @718Gilbert
      @718Gilbert 5 лет назад +14

      She tastes like cigah-rettss

    • @thankyounext365
      @thankyounext365 5 лет назад +7

      Got me in the heart

    • @skixian
      @skixian 5 лет назад +4

      Damn forest gump reference

    • @65coupestang
      @65coupestang 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @AdriaOliSal
    @AdriaOliSal 5 лет назад +24

    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

  • @maxmagallanez3757
    @maxmagallanez3757 3 года назад +20

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

  • @wallynicholas5
    @wallynicholas5 3 года назад +47

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

    • @ismael1559
      @ismael1559 3 года назад +3

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

    • @mensaswede4028
      @mensaswede4028 3 года назад +7

      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 года назад

      @@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 года назад +1

      @@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 года назад

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

  • @ellogs
    @ellogs 5 лет назад +285

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

    • @JamesSmith-vk2ky
      @JamesSmith-vk2ky 5 лет назад +11

      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 лет назад +30

      James Smith nah we tragically have the bbc

    • @SpearOfOrnstein
      @SpearOfOrnstein 5 лет назад +84

      @@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 лет назад +19

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

    • @SpearOfOrnstein
      @SpearOfOrnstein 5 лет назад +9

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

  • @Aalien31
    @Aalien31 5 лет назад +344

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

    • @laughingskuls7000
      @laughingskuls7000 5 лет назад +7

      more like "see you soon"

    • @TheRobRok
      @TheRobRok 5 лет назад +12

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

    • @stevenleejojo
      @stevenleejojo 5 лет назад +18

      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 лет назад +11

      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 лет назад +1

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

  • @knockshinnoch1950
    @knockshinnoch1950 5 лет назад +70

    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).

  • @onegemini420
    @onegemini420 6 месяцев назад +11

    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.

  • @shresthabasak7737
    @shresthabasak7737 5 лет назад +35

    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 лет назад +1

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

    • @shresthabasak7737
      @shresthabasak7737 5 лет назад +1

      @@maeshamarium I am from Bangladesh too. 🇧🇩

  • @Dugster105
    @Dugster105 5 лет назад +47

    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 лет назад +4

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

    • @RedZeshinX
      @RedZeshinX 5 лет назад +4

      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 лет назад

      @@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 лет назад +2

      @@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 лет назад

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

  • @djjohb
    @djjohb 6 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @yekker2245
    @yekker2245 3 года назад +14

    This song always makes me emotional 😢

  • @miriamrebekahshapiro4671
    @miriamrebekahshapiro4671 5 лет назад +149

    Why did this video make me cry?

    • @jaredmaples1759
      @jaredmaples1759 5 лет назад +11

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

    • @jasmineskyy4964
      @jasmineskyy4964 5 лет назад +3

      Menstruated cycle

    • @mrkrabs4959
      @mrkrabs4959 5 лет назад

      Cause you need to toughen up

    • @anandadaquino3604
      @anandadaquino3604 4 года назад +4

      I'm crying too hahahaa no joke

    • @alexanderson3197
      @alexanderson3197 4 года назад +7

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

  • @aqiiiiiiiil
    @aqiiiiiiiil 5 лет назад +41

    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 лет назад +1

      Indo

    • @TheAlps36
      @TheAlps36 5 лет назад

      Selamat tahun baru!

    • @maidosama
      @maidosama 5 лет назад

      malaysia ya?

    • @aqiiiiiiiil
      @aqiiiiiiiil 5 лет назад

      Yes, nice meeting you. @@maidosama

    • @aqiiiiiiiil
      @aqiiiiiiiil 5 лет назад

      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

  • @mclpimendozaabayan9565
    @mclpimendozaabayan9565 3 года назад +27

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

  • @cartooncottage2024
    @cartooncottage2024 2 года назад +10

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

  • @fennicfoxy3927
    @fennicfoxy3927 5 лет назад +52

    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 года назад +2

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

  • @angstmadewizard
    @angstmadewizard 5 лет назад +63

    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!!!

  • @Nabby933
    @Nabby933 3 года назад +20

    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_IITPP 6 месяцев назад +3

    HAPPY 2024 nostalgic song for 2023 to pass

  • @cooperolm9687
    @cooperolm9687 5 лет назад +12

    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.

  • @patrickconnor3035
    @patrickconnor3035 5 лет назад +75

    SCOTLAND
    this song is best played on the bagpipes

  • @ariadnegmusdaedaloximo708
    @ariadnegmusdaedaloximo708 4 года назад +14

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

  • @acasualcactus5878
    @acasualcactus5878 3 года назад +18

    May 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind!

  • @memealert3023
    @memealert3023 5 лет назад +24

    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.

  • @ericylchan8925
    @ericylchan8925 3 года назад +9

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

  • @trblessed1020
    @trblessed1020 3 года назад +10

    This song gives me all the feels

  • @henrytherobot
    @henrytherobot 5 лет назад +77

    Wishing you all a great 2019!👍

  • @tyrranicalt-rad6164
    @tyrranicalt-rad6164 3 года назад +13

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

  • @leviperez6440
    @leviperez6440 3 года назад +11

    Can’t wait to sing this at home alone🥲

  • @isaiahbasaldua924
    @isaiahbasaldua924 Год назад +5

    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.

  • @caroleotta
    @caroleotta 3 года назад +3

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

  • @ggjune7392
    @ggjune7392 5 лет назад +8

    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.

  • @PavarottiAardvark
    @PavarottiAardvark 5 лет назад +359

    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 лет назад +2

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

    • @PavarottiAardvark
      @PavarottiAardvark 5 лет назад +6

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

    • @mikep9850
      @mikep9850 5 лет назад +15

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

    • @msMuffet.
      @msMuffet. 5 лет назад

      It actually does make sense, but sounds worse.

    • @masha2855
      @masha2855 5 лет назад +13

      ??? 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"

  • @javholmes
    @javholmes 3 года назад +14

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

  • @kayak0000
    @kayak0000 3 года назад +4

    Happy New Year 2021!

  • @David-ol9ig
    @David-ol9ig 5 лет назад +31

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

  • @nicholaspearse2222
    @nicholaspearse2222 5 лет назад +22

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

    • @lunayen
      @lunayen 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @Eric-qe6xz
    @Eric-qe6xz 4 года назад +2

    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.

  • @bacul165
    @bacul165 3 года назад +73

    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 года назад +10

      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

  • @hildaelson4203
    @hildaelson4203 3 года назад +6

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

  • @HMASbogan
    @HMASbogan 5 лет назад +279

    It really sucks when your birthday is today :/

    • @geremygallenero4300
      @geremygallenero4300 5 лет назад +40

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

    • @kaypat23
      @kaypat23 5 лет назад +25

      Happy birthday!

    • @HMASbogan
      @HMASbogan 5 лет назад +1

      @@kaypat23 thanks!

    • @HMASbogan
      @HMASbogan 5 лет назад +1

      @@sj6215 thanks and happy new year!

    • @1jordy11
      @1jordy11 5 лет назад +2

      Happy new year and birth year

  • @rashikajmain9180
    @rashikajmain9180 4 года назад +4

    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.

  • @daanvisser2325
    @daanvisser2325 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @_wheeler8601
    @_wheeler8601 5 лет назад +4

    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.

  • @jeanbonnefoy1377
    @jeanbonnefoy1377 5 лет назад +10

    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 года назад +1

      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.

  • @Independence1974
    @Independence1974 Год назад +1

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

  • @jacquelinewalker5006
    @jacquelinewalker5006 3 года назад +9

    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 года назад +1

      happy new year to you too

  • @salokin3087
    @salokin3087 5 лет назад +46

    Happy New year's from Australia

    • @WRGOP
      @WRGOP 5 лет назад

      Salokin happy New Years!

    • @frisk4520
      @frisk4520 5 лет назад

      @@WRGOP But, it's still 2018.

    • @WRGOP
      @WRGOP 5 лет назад

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

    • @Aviationlord7742
      @Aviationlord7742 5 лет назад +1

      Happy new year from an Aussie in Thailand

  • @jacktheluckyguy7248
    @jacktheluckyguy7248 5 лет назад +39

    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 лет назад

      11:41 *California*
      See ya there!

  • @DinoHF79
    @DinoHF79 3 года назад +3

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

  • @arrie6054
    @arrie6054 3 года назад +21

    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.

  • @carsonwyler4047
    @carsonwyler4047 3 года назад +8

    There was a man, his name was Lang and he had a great big sign; and, since Mr Lang was very old, they called it "old Lang's sign." (is better if spoken out loud)

  • @btrixlestrange6432
    @btrixlestrange6432 3 года назад +5

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

  • @laurallewien2165
    @laurallewien2165 9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @Aninkovsky
    @Aninkovsky 3 года назад +2

    We're Here Because We're Here
    We're Here Because We're Here
    We're Here Because We're Here
    We're Here Because We're Here

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 5 лет назад +19

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

    • @CommunalPissRug
      @CommunalPissRug 4 года назад

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

  • @jnflor3650
    @jnflor3650 5 лет назад +5

    Happy New Year
    love from the Philippines 🇵🇭

  • @user-gn2wp8wp2i
    @user-gn2wp8wp2i 2 года назад +2

    From New York to Sydney, London to Mumbai, Auckland to Hong Kong, Tokyo to Singapore, Hong Kong to Jakarta et al …….Auld Lang Syne is a celebration to the past and optimism for the future.
    May it’s legacy continue

  • @lindasmann8264
    @lindasmann8264 Год назад +2

    Ty vic for sharing this with me

  • @cass__8691
    @cass__8691 4 года назад +31

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

  • @owenmccarthy2521
    @owenmccarthy2521 3 года назад +35

    The saddest version of Auld Lang Sine I've heard, was when Royal Army Forces left Hong Kong in the 1990's

    • @vudat189
      @vudat189 3 года назад +2

      Saddest day to the new order

  • @jz3883
    @jz3883 3 года назад +2

    Happy 2021🎊🎆🎊🎆🎊

  • @germanbini
    @germanbini 3 года назад +2

    Awww the music is so bittersweet! Happy 2021 everyone, let's hope this year is so much better for all of us than the last!

  • @cynicap8584
    @cynicap8584 5 лет назад +167

    >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

  • @averagecabbage6958
    @averagecabbage6958 3 года назад +7

    we're gonna need a new song for 2020

  • @jaredmaples1759
    @jaredmaples1759 5 лет назад

    All the feels!
    TY for posting!

  • @arim2011
    @arim2011 3 года назад +2

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