For old times sake! This is the story of Scotland’s New Year anthem, Auld Lang Syne. While the song is attributed to Burns who published it in 1788, Burns himself claimed he got the lyrics from ‘an old man’s singing in a pub,’. A poet named Sir Robert Ayton wrote one called Old Long Syne in the early 1600s, and Allan Ramsay published a similar poem in 1720. Burns, though, is the one who immortalized it. Interestingly, the melody we know today wasn’t originally linked to the lyrics. Burns’s versi