Peace

Let bygones be bygones for old times sake and open the door to Peace and Friendship

Peace For Auld Lang Syne

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Much more than just "A New Year's Song", the popular Scottish anthem “Auld Lang Syne” is perhaps one of the earliest Peace Songs with origins that stretch beyond the 18th c. lifetime of the poem’s “author” Robert Burns. To an era where stories, poems and songs were heard, memorized and passed down orally through the ages by generations of poets, bards and songsmiths. The theme “Friends from long ago” was not new, Burns heard and learned a fragment of the song, a 15th c. lament on the woes of growing old and lost friends, sung by an old man he met in Galloway. Inspired at the prospect of transmuting “sorrow” into “friendship” Burns reworked the song’s words to reflect a new theme; Let bygones be bygones for old times’ sake and open the door to peace and friendship. Sage words to punctuate a rite of passage which salutes The Old and rings in The New. Words he remembered in correspondence with his “most valued friend”, Mrs. Dunlop, who once wrote him about a potentially explosive meeting with an old acquaintance that had ended peacefully over a glass of their favorite tipple and fond memories of their youth. The song and melody have been performed many times in many languages for a variety of reasons. There was also another version of ALS with a different melody using the same words, as well as the version set to music by the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. So, the current need to amplify the message of Peace among the different cultures and societies with whom we share this planet, we have taken it upon ourselves to propose, in the spirit of Peace Through Art, this world famous and popular song “Auld Lang Syne” as a Universal Peace Anthem. Using the infectious reggae rhythm popularized by another of our heroes for peace and unity Bob Marley, mashed in with the Beatles - Give Peace A Chance, Anacoustic Mind has produced both versions of ALS. The goal is that eventually when anyone hears, learns or sings “Auld Lang Syne” they think “Peace” because they feel the story of it’s original intent: Let bygones be bygones for old times’ sake and open the door to peace and friendship.

New York City - Neural Imprints filmed the meaning of "Peace For Auld Lang Syne" live at Penny's Open Mic

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New York 3 Jan, 2012

Auld Lang Syne - Universal Peace Song!!!

So, now that the New Year's celebrations are over, and while their memory is still fresh in yer mind I'd like to revisit one of 18th century Scottish poet, Robert Burns', most famous songs, Auld Lang Syne; one for which he gets very little recognition. It's actually an auld Scottish fowk song about 2 people who settle long held differences over a glass of their favorite tipple, shake hands and decide to make the peace for old times sake. This version of it is a wee bit different from the traditional "New Year Song" we sing on Hogmanay at midnight on December 31st to bring in the new year. It is still Auld Lang Syne by
Robert Burns.

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Known as the plowman poet, Burns rose to fame during one of the most challenging and formative periods of modern history. His poems speak the universal language of brother and sister-hood, love, equality and freedom for all. The Scottish dream.

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