Auld Lang Syne

(thistles & roses)
Should auld

Reference Number:- Darby Number:- Godden Number:-
sb 388  9 368
 

 
same bookmark still attached to stiff backing paper dated to 1874.
 
Bookmark with words and display of Scottish thistles and English roses
 
 
 
 
Bookmark with words and display of Scottish thistles and English roses
 
 

Words:

 
 
 
 
(spray of leaves & 3 thistles)  
 
 

AULD LANG SYNE.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

display of Scottish thistles,
English roses and Irish shamrock
with words below:

SHOULD AULD
ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT

 
 

SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT,
AND NEVER BROUGHT TO MIN'
SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT,
AND DAYS O' LANG SYNE?

 CHORUS.
 FOR AULD LANG SYNE, MY DEAR,
FOR AULD LANG SYNE,
WE'LL TAK A CUP O' KINDNESS YET,
FOR AULD LANG SYNE.

 WE TWA HAE RUN ABOUT THE BRAES,
AND PU'D THE GOWANS FINE;
BUT WE'VE WANDERED MONY A WEARY FOOT,
SIN' AULD LANG SYNE.
FOR AULD, &c.

 WE TWA HAE PAIDL'T I' THE BURN,
FRAE MORNIN' SUN TILL DINE;
BUT SEAS BETWEEN US BRAID HAE ROAR'D
SIN' AULD LANG SYNE.
FOR AULD, &c.

 AND HERE'S A HAND, MY TRUSTY FIERE,
AND GIE'S A HAUD O' THINE;
AND WE'LL TAK' A RIGHT GUID WILLIE-WAUGHT,
FOR AULD LANG SYNE.
FOR AULD, &c.

 AND SURELY YE'LL BE YOUR PINT-STOUP,
AND SURELY I'LL BE MINE;
AND WE'LL TAK' A CUP O' KINDNESS YET
FOR AULD LANG SYNE.
FOR AULD, &c.

 
 

Size of Silk:
23.0cm long by 5.5cm wide
Alternative back-ground colours:
 
Comments:

Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY" on back at pointed end:

Stevens logo on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark
Stevens logo on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark

 



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