Uploaded December 2009 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
timeriksenmusic.com
I tried to think of something else to post today, but gave in to the obvious choice. After Old Hundred, I bet the tune Auld Lang Syne has had more words put to it than any other tune in American history (I'd bet even more than Yankee Doodle, though that's just a guess). Usually the words weren't intended as a direct comment on other associations people had with the song (other than it being well known enough for people to sing unfamiliar words to), but in this case it seems pretty clear whoever stuck this Watts text on there was engaging in some overt intertextuality. I didn't mean the song as either a joke or a warning, but it's hard to read it as not having a bit of one or the other, or both.
timeriksenmusic.com
I tried to think of something else to post today, but gave in to the obvious choice. After Old Hundred, I bet the tune Auld Lang Syne has had more words put to it than any other tune in American history (I'd bet even more than Yankee Doodle, though that's just a guess). Usually the words weren't intended as a direct comment on other associations people had with the song (other than it being well known enough for people to sing unfamiliar words to), but in this case it seems pretty clear whoever stuck this Watts text on there was engaging in some overt intertextuality. I didn't mean the song as either a joke or a warning, but it's hard to read it as not having a bit of one or the other, or both.
