A study has shown that joining arms to sing Auld Lang Syne is likely to have emerged from masonic lodges
A rather awkward linking of hands as the Queen and Tony and Cherie Blair welcomed in 2000 at the Millennium Dome in LondonAuld Lang SyneA study has shown that joining arms to sing the folk song popularised by Robert Burns is likely to have emerged from masonic lodges, where communal singing with crossed and linked hands and arms was commonplace.
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