Police officers stand guard as people start to fill up New York's Times Square on Friday ahead of the New Year's Eve ball drop tonight. The crowd can swell to 1 million people packing 17 blocks of Manhattan. / SPENCER PLATT/Getty Images By Tom Hays

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Now three-quarters admit they will mime or make up the words when the clock strikes midnight tomorrow . . . and the time comes for Auld Lang Syne. A poll found that some 37 per cent do not know a single line of Robert Burns's piece, written in 1788.

Police officers stand guard as people start to fill up New York's Times Square on Friday ahead of the New Year's Eve ball drop tonight. The crowd can swell to 1 million people packing 17 blocks of Manhattan. / SPENCER PLATT/Getty Images By Tom Hays

Marc Myers on The News Hub has a guide to some of the best New Year's Eve concerts around the country, from BB King in Macon, Ga., to Patti Smith in New York. A sampling of modern-day Guy (and gal) Lombardos who will take the stage New Year's Eve,