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With words written by legendary Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788, the music is
actually an ancient Scottish folk song.
Singing the song on 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.
But it was bandleader Guy Lombardo who made the song a New Year's Eve tradition
in the U.S. In 1929, his orchestra was playing at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on New Year's Eve. The event was broadcast on the radio- the first nationwide New Year's Eve broadcast. Since Lombardo ended the broadcast at midnight with "Auld Lang Syne", the tune became the "official" New Year's Eve anthem.
Lombardo's version is still played in Times Square every New Year's Eve immediately following the dropping of the
ball.
