Same Old Lang Syne
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"Same Old Lang Syne" is a song written and recorded by Dan Fogelberg and released as a single in 1980. It was included on his 1981 album The Innocent Age. The song is an autobiographical narrative bal
Picture sleeve for the U.S. vinyl release
Auld Lang Syne
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"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish song. In the English-speaking world it is traditionally sung to bid farewell to the old year at the stroke of midnight on Hogmanay, or New Year's Eve. It is also often h
Same Old Lang Syne
…the pain of their breakup; as he walks home, the falling snow turns into rain. The melody is based on the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky and ends with "Auld Lang Syne" as a soprano saxophone solo by Michael Brecker. As Fogelberg said on his official website, the song was autobiographical. He was visiting his parents…
John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841
Robert Burns
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Fireworks at Edinburgh's Hogmanay