The most difficult times involved far too many times of sipping a quiet drink while praying for the recovery of a family member or friend who was fighting for their life. The adventures in that the suite were made more interesting when each of my sons arrived with a friend, bringing the occupants to 17. My leading 13 attractive 20–21-year-old girls with small suitcases from bus station to hotel through a neighborhood where this type of caravan was for, let’s say, a much different purpose, is how legends are made. When we were getting ready to leave, 12 of Hollie’s closest girlfriends showed up at our house and shifted our plans from train to express bus. We reserved a suite for Hollie and her anticipated couple of friends at the Algonquin Hotel and a room for Carol and me. The New Year’s Eve that made me a legend in New York was the one where I wanted to take Hollie on her 21st birthday to have her first legal drink in the 21 Club. 31 when my daughter Hollie was born, as well as memories of the births of my sons Chad and Grant, although they were both born in October. It also recognizes there will be mixed memories of times gone by:Ĭertainly, the themes of pleasure and difficult times were reflected in my memories on many a New Year’s Eve. The lyrics asks the question of whether we should remember old friends and then, like a lawyer on cross examination, the poem sets the “foundation” for the time period in the chorus: This background is maybe interesting, but why is the song version of this poem sung on New Year’s Eve? It begins with the question of: But Burns also became known as the “Bard of Scotland.”īased on what has been said, it was his “genius” for putting himself into the shoes of others and sympathizing with their plight that probably earned him the fame as a “romantic poet.” It was this romantic poet who thought the lyrics were “heavenly inspired” and “expressive” of emotions just two years after he published the book “Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” in 1786. Burns was so moved by the recitation of an old man that he made the first written record of “Auld Lang Syne” and on June 25, 1788, enclosed it with a note to the Scots Musical Museum stating he found the poem exceedingly “expressive “and its unknown author “heavenly inspired” (Wall Street Journal, ).īesides there being a Musical Museum in 1788, it is fascinating that Burns not only became a poet during a time of great upheaval - such a calm word for violence - in Scotland. It was in 1788, in Scotland, when a centuries old oral poem was recited to a poet: Robert Burns (1759-1796).
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