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Anon
(1718)
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
(Song)
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot
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149376 : Anon : Should auld acquaintance be forgot : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Secular (Songs and Concert Airs)
Ramsay's text was first published in his "Collection of Scots Songs", Edinburgh, 1718, under the title The Kind Reception (or, sometimes, The Soldier's Return), and with instructions that it should be sung to a pre-existing tune, "Auld lang syne". This version has most of the elements that were, at the end of the century, crystallized by Robert Burns into what remains his most well-known song.
Lyrics: Allan Ramsay
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, tho' they return with scars,
These are the noble hero's lot, obtain'd in glorious wars,
Welcome my Varo to my breast, thy arms about me twine,
And make me once again as blest as I was lang syne.
Methinks around us on each bough a thousand cupids play;
Whilst thro' the groves I walk with you each object makes me gay.
Since your return, the sun and moon with brighter beams do shine;
Streams murmur soft notes while they run, as they did lang syne.
Despite the court, and din of state; let that to their share fall,
Who can esteem such slav'ry great, while bounded like a ball.
But sunk in love, upon my arms let your brave head recline;
We'll please ourselves with mutual charms, as we did lang syne.
O'er moor and dale, with your gay friend, you may pursue the chase,
And, after a blithe bottle, end all cares in my embrace;
And in a vacant rainy day you will be wholly mine;
We'll make the hours run smooth away and laugh at lang syne.
The hero pleas'd with the sweet air and sihns of gen'rous love,
Which had been utter'd by the fair bow'd to the pow'rs above;
Next day with content and glad haste th' approach'd the sacred shrine,
Where the good priest the couple blest and put them out of pine.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, tho' they return with scars,
These are the noble hero's lot, obtain'd in glorious wars,
Welcome my Varo to my breast, thy arms about me twine,
And make me once again as blest as I was lang syne.
Methinks around us on each bough a thousand cupids play;
Whilst thro' the groves I walk with you each object makes me gay.
Since your return, the sun and moon with brighter beams do shine;
Streams murmur soft notes while they run, as they did lang syne.
Despite the court, and din of state; let that to their share fall,
Who can esteem such slav'ry great, while bounded like a ball.
But sunk in love, upon my arms let your brave head recline;
We'll please ourselves with mutual charms, as we did lang syne.
O'er moor and dale, with your gay friend, you may pursue the chase,
And, after a blithe bottle, end all cares in my embrace;
And in a vacant rainy day you will be wholly mine;
We'll make the hours run smooth away and laugh at lang syne.
The hero pleas'd with the sweet air and sihns of gen'rous love,
Which had been utter'd by the fair bow'd to the pow'rs above;
Next day with content and glad haste th' approach'd the sacred shrine,
Where the good priest the couple blest and put them out of pine.