For auld lang syne my friends,

For auld lang syne;

We’ll gie ye baith a Peerage yet,

For auld lang syne.

We three hae tasted aft, at times,

The sweets of office fine;

And sighed for place for mony a day,

Sin’ auld lang syne.

For auld, &c.

We three hae paddled, in our turn,