The Twelve Dels of Christmas: My Festive Tales from Life and Only Fools

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The successive bars of three for the gifts surrounded by bars of four give the song its hallmark "hurried" quality. Incidentally, it is also observed that the total number of gifts after m {\displaystyle m} days equals m 3 / 6 + m 2 / 2 + m / 3 {\displaystyle m William and Ceil Baring-Gould reiterate this idea, which implies that the gifts for first seven days are all birds. The claim also appears to date back to only the 1990s, meaning the theory’s roots are most likely founded in modern speculation.

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It has thirteen days rather than twelve, and the number of gifts does not increase in the manner of "The Twelve Days". Each day was taken up and repeated all round; and for every breakdown (except by little Maggie, who struggled with desperately earnest round eyes to follow the rest correctly, but with very comical results), the player who made the slip was duly noted down by Mabel for a forfeit.Some authors suggest a connection to a religious verse entitled "Twelfth Day", found in a thirteenth century manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge; [47] [48] [49] this theory is criticised as "erroneous" by Yoffie. The kinds of gifts vary in a number of the versions, some of them becoming alliterative tongue-twisters.

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It is probably a corruption of "partridge in a pear tree", though Gilchrist suggests "juniper tree" could have been joli perdrix, [pretty partridge]. This would explain the number of verses in the song, and the repetition of each previous gift in every new verse.In the 12 Disasters of Christmas movie, the song has actually been created by the Mayas to ensure that a prophecy of the end of the world be foretold among europeans even after the destruction of the Mayas' civilization.

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Peter Kennedy recorded the Copper family of Sussex, England singing a version in 1955 which differs slightly from the common version, [81] whilst Helen Hartness Flanders recorded several different versions in the 1930s and 40s in New England, [82] [83] [84] [85] where the song seems to have been particularly popular. Despite this, other theories about the word's origin are also found in the literature, such as that the word is a corruption of French collet ("ruff"), or of "coloured". Multiple sources confirm that it is a dialectal word, found in Somerset and elsewhere, meaning "black", so "colly birds" are blackbirds. In 2013, CarbotAnimations created a new web animation, StarCraft's Christmas Special 2013 the Twelve Days of StarCrafts, with the song which was played in the map Twelve Days of Starcraft. Peter and Iona Opie suggest that "if '[t]he partridge in the peartree' is to be taken literally it looks as if the chant comes from France, since the Red Leg partridge, which perches in trees more frequently than the common partridge, was not successfully introduced into England until about 1770".Since 1984, the cumulative costs of the items mentioned in the song have been used as a tongue-in-cheek economic indicator. Members of the Navy Sea Chanters sing their comedy version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" on 4 December 2009, at the Wallace Theater, Ft. I have not met with the tune of it elsewhere, nor with the particular version of the words, and have, in this setting, recorded both to the best of my recollection. A program hosted by Tom Arnold, The 12 Days of Redneck Christmas, which takes a look at Christmas traditions, premiered on CMT in 2008.