Children tell us why Burns Night matters to them
Children in Dumfries tell us all about Burns night
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Cast your mind back a couple of weeks to New Year's Eve. Maybe you were allowed to stay up late… and along with the fireworks, you might have heard Auld Lang Syne.
The song's words were written over 200 years ago by a Scottish poet called Robert Burns.
Long before TV, phones or the internet, he became famous almost overnight - writing poems and songs people still sing and quote today.
Every year on the 25th of January, his life and work are celebrated and children in Dumfries, a town where Robert Burns lived, explained why he's important to them.
