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Lyr Req: A Guid New Year to Ane and A'
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Subject: A gude new year From: Date: 24 Oct 97 - 11:28 AM Does anyone know the words to this? I think the first verse goes something like A guid new year to yin an' a' And mony may ye see And during a' the years tae come Oh happy may ye be |
Subject: Lyr Add: A GUID NEW YEAR TO ANE AND A'. From: Murray Date: 26 Oct 97 - 05:38 PM The song is one of my own favourites; the words aren't bad, and the tune is a rousing one. It is usually sung at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay (31 Dec.) as a welcome to the New Year (in Scotland at least, and by exiles too)--though the revels might well end with "Auld Lang Syne", of course. Words are by P. Livingstone, music by Alexander Hume. The latter (Edinburgh, 1811-Glasgow, 1859) wrote quite a few songs, but this is practically the only one now sung (the other is his setting of Burns's "Afton Water"(in solfa: s,.d/m :-.r:d :d :-.t,:l,/ s,:-.l,:s,f,/ f,:m, etc.).
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My mother was told by *her* mother [italics?] (circa 1910) that this should be sung at Hogmanay and at *no other time*; to do so was unlucky, tempting fortune or so I suppose. |
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