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...



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Comments

[gramarye1971]

My family has little brass Christmas tree decorations of the 12 Days, with the words written on the bottom of each, and so in our house it was always 12 drummers, 11 pipers, 10 lords, and 9 ladies.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

But my Christmas tree decoration have 12 lords, 11 ladies, 10 pipers and 9 drummers. Though they came from

PS What's the story behind the shiners, stars, lily white boys?

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone agrees with the order that I sing!

No-one really knows the story behind the song Green Grow the Rushes O, but it doesn't stop people from speculating. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Grow_the_Rushes,_O) :-)