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"An excellent and proper new ballad, entitled, Old Long Syne." |
Printed 48 years before the birth of Robert Burns, Old Long Syne has the identical first words of Auld Lang Syne. Even the version printed by James Watson as a broadside in 1711 notes that this version of Old Long Syne is, "Newly corrected and amended, with a large and new Edition of several excellent Love Lines."