And when the heck did that saxophone player show up playing "Auld Lang Syne"?

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Before the British parade dispersed here, the band played For Auld Lang Syne.

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Oasis favourite Don't Look Back In Anger could become the modern answer to Auld Lang Syne if it is selected by the panel.

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"There is more of the fire of native genius in it than in half a dozen of modern English Bacchanalians, " he wrote of "Auld Lang Syne" in his letter to Mrs.

WSJ: Robert Burns and Auld Lang Syne at the Morgan Library & Museum

After the countdown, both Thursday morning and 2009 had arrived, and the Danza Quartet launched into a rumba-heavy "Auld Lang Syne" that would make the legendary pianist Professor Longhair wiggle with approval.

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In fact, ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, just announced the most performed holiday songs of the past five years and "Auld Lang Syne" didn't make the list by a long shot.

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London-based Premier Christian Radio promised to play Millennium Prayer - the Lord's Prayer sung to the tune of Auld Lang Syne - once an hour on Monday, and to keep it on top of its playlist until Christmas.

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The Millennium Prayer achieved notoriety when it became clear that BBC Radio 2 and many other stations had refused to allow the song - which sets the words of The Lord's Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne - into playlists.

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As the exhibits regarding the origins of the "Auld Lang Syne" melody show, these kinds of strathspey dance tunes were in circulation long before this one first became associated with Burns's poem in Thomson's "Select Collection" published in 1799, shortly after the poet's death.

WSJ: Robert Burns and Auld Lang Syne at the Morgan Library & Museum