For Times Gone By by Michael Martin Every New Year’s Eve, one of the most common English-speaking melodies people sing is called “Auld Lang Syne.” Isn’t it funny to think that you’ve been singing a song all your life and have no idea what it means? It turns out that “auld lang syne” is a 17th-century Scottish song written by a man named Robert Byrns. The words “auld lang syne” can be translated as “times gone by.” So when we sing this song, we are saying, “We’ll drink a cup o