We are currently in the twelve days of Christmas, which commence on Christmas Day.
So, here’s twelve facts about the twelve days, courtesy of Mental Floss.
Here’s the first two:
1. Lots of people, particularly online, insist the song is Catholic catechism.
The story goes that from the 16th to the 19th century, when being a Catholic was a crime in Protestant England, children would sing this song to profess their forbidden faith. The partridge and the pear tree was Jesus Christ, the four calling birds were the four gospels, the pipers piping were the eleven faithful apostles, and so on.
2. But that’s probably not true.
For one thing, it doesn’t fit the bill as a catechism song. All 12 things it professes to secretly represent—the books of the Bible, the six days of creation, etc.—would have been acceptable to Protestants as well. For another thing, this rumor seems to have popped up in the last 25 years, and then spread like wildfire, as such things do, on the interwebs, without reference to any original sources.
You can read the rest here.
Here’s John Denver and The Muppets performing Twelve Days Of Christmas.
And who else would sing the verse about drummers drumming?
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