Holiday

[daughterthree]

Actually created as a message to Catholics during Tudor monarchy when they were being persecuted by Henry and Elizabeth.  Each item represented something.  Wasn't a bird thing.  

[Marsha2003]

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@daughterthree wrote:

Actually created as a message to Catholics during Tudor monarchy when they were being persecuted by Henry and Elizabeth.  Each item represented something.  Wasn't a bird thing.  

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[nana59]

never liked that song....glad my 'true love' never gave me any of those gifts!

[GingerPeach]

I like that it reminds us that the days are those between Christmas and January 6, the day, it is said, when the three wise men reached Bethlehem. 

[Nataliesgramma]

It would cost you over 40,000 to buy it all this year...

[insomniac2]

I love the song. Over the years, all my choirs  (from children to senior citizens) performed it in the following manner.

First, I would divide everyone into four groups, assigning each group to three days (one group was all boys/men--I always had way more females, and they formed three groups). Then we would start singing, with just one specific group singing "a partridge in a pear tree," or "five gold rings. . .whatever. Each group would also do a small move/gesture.

When we got to the sixth day/item, I would speed the song up a bit. Each day following that, I would speed it up a little bit more (the gestures would also speed up).

By the eleventh day, it was very FAST. 

The last time through, I would gradually slow it down (from 4 down to 1). The moves would do the same thing.

I LOVE THIS VERSION because it's a rather tedious song to sing, but having so many groups to watch and listen to really spruces things up.

Audiences LOVE IT.