<P> There is some doubt as to whether the melody used today is the same one Burns originally intended, but it is widely used in Scotland and in the rest of the world . </P> <P> Singing the song on Hogmanay or New Year's Eve very quickly became a Scots custom that soon spread to other parts of the British Isles . As Scots (not to mention English, Welsh and Irish people) emigrated around the world, they took the song with them . </P> <P> The song begins by posing a rhetorical question: Is it right that old times be forgotten? The answer is generally interpreted as a call to remember long - standing friendships . Thomson's Select Songs of Scotland was published in 1799 in which the second verse about greeting and toasting was moved to its present position at the end . </P> <P> Most common use of the song involves only the first verse and the chorus . The last lines of both of these are often sung with the extra words "For the sake of" or "And days of", rather than Burns' simpler lines . This allows one note for each word, rather than the slight melisma required to fit Burns' original words to the melody . </P>

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind meaning
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