The bigger photos are also going to necessitate a bit more scrolling by visitors, which may be somewhat annoying.
I'm also discovering that bigger is not always better, and that some photos don't benefit from a larger format I may revert to more laterally-embedded smaller photos when the content is not crucial. For the most part I like the images bigger - it may even save some "clicking to magnify" that was previously necessary. I've enlarged some of the photos on the recent posts to test the design. I still need to change the header photo so it isn't so intrusive, and I need a more neutral background for the text rather than this glaring white. I've gotten the wider central column that I wanted. This allows one note for each word, rather than the slight melisma required to fit Burns' original words to the melody.Lyrics and text from Wikipedia (where's there's also a useful "English translation".)Īs promised/warned, I've started the process of updating and customizing the template for this blog. The last lines of both of these are often sung with the extra words "For the sake of" or "And days of", rather than Burns' simpler lines. Most common use of the song involves only the first verse and the chorus. It is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself. Some of the lyrics were indeed "collected" rather than composed by the poet the ballad "Old Long Syne" printed in 1711 by James Watson shows considerable similarity in the first verse and the chorus to Burns' later poem, and is almost certainly derived from the same "old song". Robert Burns sent a copy of the original song to the Scots Musical Museum with the remark, “The following song, an old song, of the olden times, and which has never been in print, nor even in manuscript until I took it down from an old man".