1. ROBERT BURNS NEARLY LEFT SCOTLAND TO BECOME A BOOKKEEPER ON A JAMAICAN SLAVE PLANTATION
Before literary success, Robert Burns was offered a job in Jamaica on a slave plantation as a bookkeeper. Fate intervened as Burns became a literary sensation and he moved to Edinburgh and became an anti-slavery advocate instead.It’s a good thing he never went to Jamaica - Who knows WHAT song we’d be ringing in the New Year with! The Macarena?
2. BURNS MAY HAVE WRITTEN THE MOST FAMOUS SONG IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Robert Burns wrote the lyrics to what is considered to be one of the most popular songs in the English Language: Auld Lang Syne - the New Years Song! The Guinness Book of World Records says that the
