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Thread #87676 Message #1638734
Posted By: masato sakurai
01-Jan-06 - 09:39 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Auld Lang Syne
Subject: RE: ALL the Lyrics to 'Auld Lang Syne'
Oldtimer's version is from The Scots Musical Museum (no. 413, 1796), while Muttley's is from George Thomson's Scottish Airs (no. 66, 1799), which Burns had sent him in a letter. Both versions are included in James Dick's The Songs of Robert Burns (1903; rpt. Folklore Associates, 1962, pp. 208-209) and Donald A. Low's The Songs of Robert Burns (Routledge, 1993, pp. 311-312). As is well known, the SMM version was set to a completely different tune.