New Year humble

With or without a right good willie-waught

  And I ask you, sincerely: “Should auld acquaintance be forgot?”

    Bobby Burns asked that question about new years past, but he wasn’t the first. Burns published his song Auld Lang Syne “circa 1788,” according to otherwise reliable sources. 

    Seventy-seven years earlier, 1711 to be exact, James Watson originally put those same thoughts in a poem. …