Twelve days of Christmas

[ladyofastolat]

It seems that while everyone who sings The Twelve Days of Christmas agrees on what arrived on the first 8 days, everything goes horribly wrong after that. Lots of people seem to be passionately convinced that their version is "the right one", even as printed books give a variety of different answers. So, once again, when faced with a contraversial issue, I appeal to my friends list on LJ to conclusively prove what it right.

(Just imagine how much easier things would have been in the past if people had been able to recourse to the LJ poll to answer such issues. Can't work out when Easter will be celebrated in your kingdom? Post the LJ Poll of Whitby to find out. Simples!)

But, anyway...



[Poll #1499758]

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Definitely pipers, then drummers, then dancers. I'm not too fussed about the order in which the dancers come on, but you need the horns and percussion to get going before the dancing can begin.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

When we did "dance" at school, it was usually silent, and involved standing around in the hall waving our arms around artistically as we each in our own private way pretended to be a jellyfish trapped in a goldfish bowl, or something. Which is just to say that you don't necessarily need music before dance. The ladies might be wordlessly expressing the torment of being plucked out of their own nice Christmas celebrations and sent off by some stupid true love as an ill-advised present to his love.