Day 12
We have reached the final day of the year and the last day of our 12-part series. Thank you so much for hanging out with me and allowing me to share these glimpses behind the album with you!
With one more song to go, did I plan to end with "Auld Lang Syne"? But of course.
Long before I started working on Wintertide--back when the Christmas album was a future, possible, some-day project, "Auld Lang Syne" was always going to be the final song on said album. I'm certain the first place I heard this song was at the end of It's a Wonderful Life when Harry Bailey gives a toast to his brother, calling him "the richest man in town", and everyone from Bedford Falls (all standing in George Bailey's living room) starts singing. Since then I have loved it.
A Scottish folk song saved and added to by Robert Burns in 1788, being the first to set it down in writing, it's a song that is really only played once a year. Today. Tonight. This song about times long past and the friends and loved ones who have been there step-by-step... is a fitting bookend to the year.
"Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind
Should all acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
And surely you will bring your cup
And surely I'll bring mine
And we'll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We too have run around the slopes
And picked the daisies fine
We have wandered many weary foot
Since auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We too have paddled in the stream
From morning sun to night
But the seas between us broad have roared
From auld lang syne
For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We will take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup o'kindness yet
For auld lang syne
For auld lang syne..."
(You can listen to "Auld Lang Syne" right here!)
Happy New Year!
-Brittany Jean