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

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The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. a] However, the 1780 publication includes an illustration that clearly depicts the "five gold rings" as being jewellery. Shannon Chan-Kent, as her character of Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, sings her own version of the song on the album My Little Pony: It's a Pony Kind of Christmas.

The kinds of gifts vary in a number of the versions, some of them becoming alliterative tongue-twisters.

Twelfth Night is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of January 5th, the day before Epiphany, which traditionally marks the end of Christmas celebrations". 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. Pippin go aye" (also spelled "papingo-aye" in later editions) is a Scots word for peacock [30] or parrot. Irish actor Frank Kelly recorded "Christmas Countdown" in 1982 in which a man named Gobnait O'Lúnasa receives the 12 Christmas gifts referenced in the song from a lady named Nuala.

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. A radio play written by Brian Sibley, "And Yet Another Partridge in a Pear Tree" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Day 1977. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas.

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.

William and Ceil Baring-Gould reiterate this idea, which implies that the gifts for first seven days are all birds. A melody, possibly related to the "traditional" melody on which Austin based his arrangement, was recorded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1870 and published in 1905. A large number of different melodies have been associated with the song, of which the best known is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin. Another suggestion is that an old English drinking song may have furnished the idea for the first gift. The index has been humorously criticised for not accurately reflecting the true cost of the gifts featured in the Christmas carol.Les Douze Mois" ("The Twelve Months") (also known as "La Perdriole"—"The Partridge") [36] is another similar cumulative verse from France that has been likened to The Twelve Days of Christmas. Others suggest the gold rings refer to "five goldspinks"—a goldspink being an old name for a goldfinch; [62] or even canaries. Some variants have " juniper tree" or " June apple tree" rather than "pear tree", presumably a mishearing of "partri dge in a pear tree".

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