"Auld Lang Syne" (Was: What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"?)

[sistermagpie]

> Carol:
> That's good to hear. But what about the people under forty, 
especially
> Americans? I heard a commentator on "The Today Show" or one of 
those
> morning programs (I was channel-switching) saying that she was glad
> someone or other was doing an instrumental version of "Auld Lang 
Syne"
> because "nobody knows the words." Obviously, she was speaking for
> herself (I'm guessing she doesn't even know the meaning of the 
title),
> but how accurate is her assumption? Are we losing yet another 
tradition?

Magpie:
Not sure, but I'm under 40 still and sang it on New Year's Eve!

Though I think there are probably people still older who ask, as 
Harry did in "When Harry Met Sally" "What does this song mean? My 
whole life I've wondered what this song meant. Should old 
aquaintance be forgot. Does that mean that we should forget our old 
aquaintance or does it mean if we have forgotten them we should 
remember them, which is impossible because we already forgot them?"

Or something like that.:-)

-m