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

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In the UK and other commonwealth countries, the 26th December is commemorated as the national holiday Boxing Day, while the 6th January, is seen as the last day you can have your Christmas decorations up by many European countries.

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This is a traditional English singing game but the melody of five gold rings was added by Richard[ sic] Austin whose fine setting (Novello) should be consulted for a fuller accompaniment. Importance [certainly has] long been attached to the Twelve Days, when, for instance, the weather on each day was carefully observed to see what it would be in the corresponding month of the coming year. A program hosted by Tom Arnold, The 12 Days of Redneck Christmas, which takes a look at Christmas traditions, premiered on CMT in 2008. The song has been recorded by the Muppets five different times, featuring different Muppets in different roles each time.John Julius Norwich's 1998 book, The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence), uses the motif of repeating the previous gifts on each subsequent day, to humorous effect. The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses.

Twelve Days of Christmas - Wikipedia Twelve Days of Christmas - Wikipedia

While not a celebration in itself, these twelve days are embedded into the culture of multiple Christian nations. This period has been recognised as a festive and sacred season since before the middle ages, with the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany having first been proclaimed as such all the way back in 567AD. Some variants have " juniper tree" or " June apple tree" rather than "pear tree", presumably a mishearing of "partri dge in a pear tree". The successive bars of three for the gifts surrounded by bars of four give the song its hallmark "hurried" quality. This version charted in both Ireland (where it reached number 8 in 1982) and the UK (entering the UK chart in December 1983 and reaching number 26).William and Ceil Baring-Gould also suggest that the birds are Breton hens, which they see as another indication that the carol is of French origin. Another suggestion is that an old English drinking song may have furnished the idea for the first gift. The Ray Conniff Singers recorded a traditional version in 1962, appearing on the album We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Pippin go aye" (also spelled "papingo-aye" in later editions) is a Scots word for peacock [30] or parrot.