Why is There 12 Days of Christmas in the Song Instead of 1?

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Even the most ardent fans of Christmas will agree - the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” does not make a whole lot of sense. What is a partridge doing in a pear tree? Partridges are ground-nesting birds! So where did perhaps the most earworm inducing Christmas song in history come from, and why are there twelve days in it, instead of just one?
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@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

Now you know why there are 12 days of Christmas, so keep the Christmas trivia train rollin' along by watching this video about The 13 Year Old Girl Who Brought Us "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f5uqlM5lvdK3g4E.html

@alleycat2759 5 жыл бұрын

Who specifically was the man who came up with this song... was it a fore-bearer of Alfred Hitchcock? My true love? More like my worst nightmare! On the 7th day alone, this a-hole sent me 7 swans a swimming, 6 geese a laying, 4 calling birds, 3 french hens, 2 turtle doves and a partridge... That's 23 friggin' birds. And not once did he send me a newspaper subscription of even a mop! By the end of the 12th day, I had a house filled with 184 birds and a pile of bird droppings almost a inch thick! Also, let's not forget... Those geese are a laying. Some of those eggs will be a hatching! THEN, after the 7th day, he decided to send in show business people! Ladies dancing, pipers piping, drummers drumming and lords a leaping. I get it that they are in show business and used to working during the holidays. But what about those poor maids a milking? They should be home with their families on Christmas, not jerking on a cow! As for those cows... I managed to get them into my backyard. They were tearing up my house. But then I got another surprise... A visit from the city zoning and code enforcement division. Apparently, I'm not allowed to keep cows inside the city limits, much less 40 of them! All I know is ... with all those birds flapping around and leaving 'little souvenirs' all over the place, there is no way in hell I'm eating those pears! But I really want to know, who is this man? I have a really hard and really swift kick I want to give him, right in the balls!

@TheRealSuperGeeks 5 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out This video was incredibly fortuitous. I just came across a Facebook post of mine from last year where I noted that there’s an awful lot of poultry given as gifts... and that was before I knew about the five gold rings. Thanks for validating my suspicions.

@cyntogia 4 жыл бұрын

@Johnny Yes a real man. St. Stephen's day, Dec 26

@steveb6103 4 жыл бұрын

Two of the worst songs of the season 🤮

@johncrigger941 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not saying if you are wrong or right but if you look up Christmas in the 1828 Noah Webster dictionary you will come up with this CHRISTMAS, noun 1. The festival of the Christian church observed annually on the 25th day of December, in memory of the birth of Christ, and celebrated by a particular church service. The festival includes twelve days 2. Christmas-day. (The festival includes 12 days) So I think we are supposed to celebrate Christmas for 12 days.

@Serai3 5 жыл бұрын

All these silly myths came about because we no longer have "stacking" songs, songs where you start with one small thing and then keep adding new elements, repeating the entire list every time an item is added. So people had to come up with all kinds of silliness to explain what used to be a fairly common song structure. There used to be lots of these stacking songs (they were especially well suited to drinking songs), but the 12 Days of Christmas is the only one still generally known. ("99 Bottles of Beer" isn't a stacking song but it's a similar idea - a song that keeps going on with a change in each verse as long as you can keep at it.) I learned a few of these when working at a Ren Faire in the 80's. They're actually really cool, it's too bad we don't have them anymore.

@benbarker8154 6 жыл бұрын

mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble FIVE GOLDEN RINGS, mumble, mumble, mumble---Eddie Izzard

@MagnusSkiptonLLC 6 жыл бұрын

(runs in from other room) *FIIIIIIIIIVE GOOOOOOOOLD RIIIIIIIINGS!!!!*

@Sequins_ 6 жыл бұрын

My one suggestion for this channel is to please have the text scroll at the same rate at which it is spoken. I have dyslexia and it’s much easier to read when I have text and audio, and that small lag really distracts me. Love your channel so, so much though! ♥️

@charmainferreira1324 6 жыл бұрын

AbbyJ. Agreed! Please Simon.

@pierrec1590 5 жыл бұрын

Effectively, "pear tree" sounds very much like the French "perdrix", partridge. It is frequent that, in English, an animal's name will be the French word when it is in your plate...

@derrickzeller3351 6 жыл бұрын

I'm an Episcopalian and in the Episcopal Church we celebrate 12 days of Christmas as do most liturgical churches

@sterjulie 2 жыл бұрын

I’m Roman Catholic. We celebrate the Octave of Christmas-8 days. The Christmas season includes my feasts, including Ephiphany. The season concludes on the Sunday *after* Christmas with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord by St. John the Baptist. (Because the celebration of Ephiphany is now transferred to Sunday following January 1, this feast of the Baptism of the Lord sometimes falls on a Monday.)

@craziestcat5767 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope everyone has a wonderful day!! Happy Holidays!! 😆😆

@EdM66410 6 жыл бұрын

Hope all you knowledge seekers have an awesome Christmas!

@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

And you as well :-)

@redhotz21 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!!

@Will-eh6xe 6 жыл бұрын

Ed M thanks Ed m u as well

@alexlandherr 6 жыл бұрын

Or to all Facteteers!

@foureyedchick 6 жыл бұрын

Christ mass = Christmas

@163reasonswhyrealestateage4 6 жыл бұрын

If I were a teacher, I would begin the day with my students by having them watch one of your videos. You always present interesting subject matter that isn't available from any other source. Thank you Simon.

@stellarfirefly 6 жыл бұрын

I celebrate one day of Christmas because by the time the 25th comes around, I'm so satiated and lethargic that my family has to drag me around if they want me to participate in anything else at all.

@kell_checks_in 2 жыл бұрын

If you're Christian, why not keep Advent? You can forego certain foods, etc., as during Lent, limit the partying, do some self-reflection & penance, give/work for charity, and avoid putting up decorations until Gaudete Sunday*. Then, when Christmas really comes, you get to celebrate all the way through to Epiphany! *I usually put up outdoor decorations after Thanksgiving, because it's become a form of witness.

@EdM66410 6 жыл бұрын

Why do we have itches that sometimes we can’t locate? My foot itches so god damned bad right now and no matter where I scratch it’s not the right spot!!

@Coonotafoo 6 жыл бұрын

Ed M To cure yourself of that itch you must amputate your foot.

@davidkissner6354 6 жыл бұрын

Ed M that means you have herpies or diabetes

@TheLegend-jp1vg 6 жыл бұрын

Coonotafoo o

@thepianoman808 6 жыл бұрын

Coonotafoo xD what the heck bro lol

@ubermonkee 6 жыл бұрын

it can be a number of things, but this time of the year it's probably alcohol leaving your system if you had a few christmas eve :)

@ST3V3fic 6 жыл бұрын

In Puerto Rico Christmas basically starts after thanksgiving, and ends in January 6.

@jaspr1999 6 жыл бұрын

Okay! Now I need to go play this game with my wife and exchange some serious... And not so serious... Kisses!!! Merry Christmas Simon, to all those with you and your families my wife and I wish you all the Happiest of New Years!!!

@shartlinemcdingleberries7532 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas, Simon!

@hameley12 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Simon, I have always asked myself this question. Have a Merry Christmas Simon and a fantastic New Year's Day!

@evelynharber6077 5 жыл бұрын

I have stumbled upon this video at a very opportune time, almost twelve month later, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you Simon for making it. I hope it keeps reminding us of the 12 days of Christmas forever NOW that someone on the crew has done the hard work of finding out the origins of the Christmas song. May you have a very merry Christmas and an equally wonderful New Year!

@attiasprouse682 6 жыл бұрын

BONUS FACT: While the 12 days of Christmas are from 12/25-01/06 (Western Calendar), The Christmas Season doesn’t end until 02/02, The Feast of The Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, 40 days after the celebration of His Birth. Also, I defy anybody here to find a better version of this song than John Denver with The Muppets.

@animistchannel2983 6 жыл бұрын

Best ever: Bob and Doug Mckenzie "Great White North" version kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z6qEqq-it5abYYE.html

@bxdanny 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, 12/25 to 1/6 is 13 days. But 12 nights between them, "Twelfth Night" (as in Shakespeare) was the night of January 5-6. Feb. 2 (better known today as Groundhog Day) is 39 days after Christmas, but the period including both Christmas and Groundhog Day (also called Candlemas) is 40 days.

@PSPaaskynen 5 жыл бұрын

@@bxdanny In Sweden 6 January is known as Trettondag (Thirteenth day) as in the 13th day after Christmas EVE, the twelve days in between are the 12 days of Christmas. Trettondag marks the end of the Christmas holiday season.

@Rovarin 5 жыл бұрын

@@PSPaaskynen if you are a Swede it is known as Trettondagsafton, the other Nordics and Scandiwegians have names for the day in their own languages. And some even note the old Thirteenth (the 18th of January).

@charlesfarley3299 5 жыл бұрын

Ba dum bum bum

@Rovarin 5 жыл бұрын

In the Faroe Islands they have a tradition where they count the days of Christmas at midnight on Shrove Monday (Many of the Nordic countries go trick or treating around that time and it is believed that this arose from a tradition of beggars going from house to house to beg for meat just before Lent in pre-Reformation times). They count the days of Christmas by using usually one or two traditional ballads, performed in a chain dance. One of the ballads is in Faroese and called Mær gav Sankta Mortan (St. Martin Gave Me) and it recounts the 20 gifts that the imaginary story teller had received from St. Martin, the first gift, given on the first day, being a feather of a well flying bird. The other ballad is performed in Gøtudanskt (a Faroese dialect of Danish) and might be Norwegian or Danish in origin. It is called Satt op Sankte Simeon (Stand up St. Simeon/Simon) and is shorter, only 12 stanzas or verses (12 apostles, 11 disciples, 10 commandments, 9 choir of angels, 8 blessings, 7 days of creation, 6 stone vessels in the land of Canaan, 5 books of Moses, 4 evangelists, 3 patriarchs, 2 tablets of the law and one is the Lord God who rules all things (this last one is an approximate translation)). Both ballads are performed in the same way - often to the same melody. They will start out by singing the first stanza, which is the first verse (the one feather and the one god) and then for each stanza they will add a verse - sometimes after they've reached the 20th or 12th stanza they will sing the last stanza one final time. Of the two, I think the St. Martin ballad seems to be more kid-friendly and probably intended for fun, while the St. Simeon ballad has a certain religiously didactic element to it - it may have been used as a memory device by people to remember certain things that they were required to know about.

@jesperkthomsen 5 жыл бұрын

"Obviously, I cannot prove anything to anyone who doesn't care to believe." So proof is now the definition of a belief-based argument... I think I'll try that for my next parking ticket.

@BlackEpyon 6 жыл бұрын

This song always involved those in my school chapel, with each grade being assigned a day, standing up and comically shouting that part at the top of their lungs rather than singing it properly. Somehow, despite the butchery, it's become a bit of a tradition in this school.

@LindaB651 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Simon. Merry Christmas!

@HayTatsuko 6 жыл бұрын

What a nice Christmas gift! Thank you, Simon & Co., and Merry Christmas or whatevers to you lot. :)

@LividImp 6 жыл бұрын

Forget a lyric, give a kiss, get jailed for sexual harassment.

@bushyconn 6 жыл бұрын

And a happy new year to all the researchers, compilers and Simon with last, but not least all the subscribers and just likes

@philliberatore4265 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas, Simon and the whole TIFO crew. Thank you for your work and I'm looking forward to more over the coming years.

@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks and Merry Christmas to you as well :-)

@laureng6412 6 жыл бұрын

Murry Christmas yall

@astahelgadottir8747 6 жыл бұрын

In Iceland we have 13 days of Christmas (or Jól as we have called it since before Christianity was our thing). We also count the 24th because that's when Christmas arrives at 6 in the evening. That's when we eat the big Christmas meal and open gifts.

@JohannaInTheCorner 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have the same song? How does it deal with the extra day?

@Knight_Astolfo 6 жыл бұрын

I want to sing the original unabridged 39 days of Christmas! 39 Fops a' fopping, 38 Fishwives hawking, 37 Coopers cooping, .... 30 YEAR AVERAGE LIFESPAN! ...

@anthonyciccariello8089 6 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Happy holidays mr. Whistler.

@thequiltingowl 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas!

@angosadic5520 6 жыл бұрын

Bob and Doug Mckenzie had the best 12 days of Christmas

@Jegorex 6 жыл бұрын

On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a totally insufficient dowry.

@DANtheMANofSIPA 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas Friends

@xxXthekevXxx 6 жыл бұрын

The title grammar may be incorrect... but I’m not sure. “why _is_ there 12 days...” vs “why _are_ there 12 days...”

@macvena 6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Benoit "are" is proper. It's the plural form.

@Kat-tq6tm 6 жыл бұрын

Are

@natalieprocopio1819 6 жыл бұрын

You're right. The title is wrong, it should say"are" instead of "is"

@howtubeable 6 жыл бұрын

Right, because if you make it a statement, it says, "There are 12 Days of Christmas."

@brunsta234 6 жыл бұрын

Kevin Benoit it's is because he's referring to one song as opposed to literally 12 days

@Will-eh6xe 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Xmas from Canada thanks Simon thought the song was about the 12 days before Xmas and u just count down till the actual day comes lol

@gray007nl 6 жыл бұрын

A lot of European countries celebrate two days of Christmas (25 and 26)

@massman1216 6 жыл бұрын

Johan Hoekstra ...

@weckar 5 жыл бұрын

4 Collin Firths 3 Bran Sans 2 Myrtle Groves and the Jaacksooon Family!

@CorkySchillinger 6 жыл бұрын

Happy Holidays to all the TIFO gang!

@annarusso2537 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciated reading text with out someone standing there waving their hands everywhere.

@Onehurtdevildog 6 жыл бұрын

My brain feels fed.

@kalenproductions6807 5 жыл бұрын

The 12 days originally came from the Norse 12 days of Yule, starting on the Solstice, encompassing Baldor's feast day (the 25th)

@briandiehl9257 5 жыл бұрын

It's funny, all the comments next to you are saying it's based on some other pagan holyday, I guess no one can agree?

@kalenproductions6807 5 жыл бұрын

It's possible there's another pagan holiday that's similar. I do know though that it was a very big Norse holiday starting with the "rebirth" of the Sun Goddess Sol on the 21st, the feast of Baldor on the 25th, and Odin's Hunt (which i can't remember if it took place during the full 12 days, or if it was only on the 24th or on the last day)

@donovanborja2663 6 жыл бұрын

Happy Christmas

@angelwiley1284 5 жыл бұрын

The one I really love 💘 is the 12 pains of Christmas.

@richardbidinger2577 5 жыл бұрын

During the Roman Empire, they had the Celebration of Saturnalia. The celebration ran for 12 days from the end of December, through the beginning of January. When the Christian church couldn't stamp it out, they took it over, just like they did most non Christian celebrations. The song might have an interesting origin, but the actual 12 days come from a pagan celebration. True story.

@dundee520 6 жыл бұрын

thank you for the info

@OptimusPhillip 3 жыл бұрын

It's a reference to the liturgical Christmas season, which spans the 12 days from Christmas Day to the Epiphany, which celebrates the arrival of the Magi.

@mindygracebickerdike 5 жыл бұрын

How odd, I've always sang it as 4 colling birds, 5 gold (not golden) rings. And ended it 9 pipers, 10 drummers, 11 ladies dancing and 12 lords a leaping. Mindygrace

@albusdu8069 6 жыл бұрын

We have some insane versions going around school with some items way more insane that a flightless bird stuck in a fruit tree in winter.

@nyneeveanya8861 4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was about someone giving a gift for each day of the year and the love from the true love was the 365th gift. First day gift is partridge=1 day,second day gift is partridge and two doves=3 days,third day gift is three French hens two turtle doves and partridge=6days, etc. If you add up all gifts given over the twelve days = 364 days.

@gubjorggisladottir3525 6 жыл бұрын

There are 14 days of Christmas; Þorláksmessa, Aðfangadagur, Jóladagur, annar á jólum, þriðji á jólum, 28. des, 29. des, 30. des, Gamlaársdagur, Nýársdagur, 2. jan, 3jan, 4.jan, 5.jan and þrettándinn (6. janúar -> the last day of Christmas)

@bjornbittler6051 4 жыл бұрын

There is a phonetic similarity between the words "Persching" and "Partidge" in the palatinate dialect in German. "Persching" meaning "Pfirsich" in high German, translating to Peach. Coincidence or not, the region was disputed, laying close to the french border. The dialect shares many words with the french language, modified as they may be. Pêche=Peach=Persching=Pfirsich. As a german speaker, living close to the palatinate region, I can't help but hearing peach in the pear tree. Things the mind does.

@beebee68 3 жыл бұрын

During Tudor England, Christmas was celebrated from the birth of Christ to the Feast of The Epiphany (the visiting of the Three Kings) on the fifth of January. Each day was a different celebration...

@evanbranagan7663 6 жыл бұрын

MERRY CHRISTMAS

@imaimeemiami7480 6 жыл бұрын

Yes....of course I was thinking why is the ground-nesting patridge in the pear tree....

@theimaginatrix7625 2 жыл бұрын

I personally favour variants where the Lords A-Leaping are the eleventh gift because "Eleven lords a-Leaping" is the funnest to say.

@kimberlytuttle7767 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing.

@N313GrayFox 6 жыл бұрын

9:24...Wait, what?

@spuddy345 6 жыл бұрын

Fernando Davalos in context, that would refer to a tied bundle of sticks used to sweep up.

@benjaminwalker7793 6 жыл бұрын

What isn't popularised by the Americans these days? Free speech, Invading Iraq because reasons, All that other stuff!

@wearebuffa 5 жыл бұрын

I thought they were thin sticks used for building a fire.

@illyalil2018 5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure if it was a partridge or a turkey but I have seen one in a tree. The branch was only about 5' high though.

@TheCatAteMyShoe 6 жыл бұрын

I always thought this song was nonsensical. Thanks for explaining it to me!!!

@kirbymarchbarcena 6 жыл бұрын

Whoever would have thought about this is really ingenius.

@MedEighty 6 жыл бұрын

Twelve was a very useful number in olden times, before decimal systems (i.e. systems based around number ten) became the norm. You can count twelve on a single hand (using your thumb as a pointer to the three segments of your four fingers). Twelve is also conveniently divisible by 12, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1, making it easy for people to calculate/measure portions of twelve things (and to change the price of the things accordingly). For that reason, many things from the past involve the number twelve. For example, twelve disciples (which are found in Christianity as well as other religions, as they are all man-made and based on the norms of the times they were made up), 12 months in a year, 12 inches equating to 1 foot, 12 hours on a clock face, and going to the store to buy a dozen (i.e. 12) eggs.

@asterix7842 2 жыл бұрын

It took 12 days for the 3 magi to reach the baby Jesus. They arrived on jan 6, the Epiphany. Eastern Orthodox Christians observe Christmas on January 6 or 7 They use the old Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.

@deanseawa 6 жыл бұрын

You realize the text says "a partridge AND a pear tree". 9:40

@jamesdickman7291 6 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up Merry Christmas.

@Zero-gp5im 5 жыл бұрын

Happy 7th day of Christmas. Variations. 7 days of creation. Fruits of the Spirit.

@Venus-bb7cd 5 жыл бұрын

My family and I celebrate Christmas for twelve days.

@neilterry1726 4 жыл бұрын

Five golden tuques, four pounds of back bacon, three French Toasts, two turtle-necks, and a beer...in a tree.

@prettyfar33 5 жыл бұрын

I looked up partridge in the dictionary one time and it said partridge is a puff of wind hence to fart! The kids got a big kick out of it!

@charlesmiller6826 6 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas to you, and what's next are going to tell us Santa Claus is not real or say the Easter Bunny really doesn't leave all those chocolate eggs.

@MollyOKami 6 жыл бұрын

Not all of the gifts in the song may be random. The "two turtledoves" may be a reference to Luke 2:24, which quotes the Old Law of Leviticus 12:6-8 when dealing with the purification of a woman who's given birth. * _And they offered a sacrifice according to what is stated in the law of the Lord, 'a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.'_ (Luke 2:24, NRSV) * _When the days of her purification are completed, whether for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the entrance of the tent of meeting a lamb in its first year for a burnt offering, and a pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering. He shall offer it before the Lord, and make atonement on her behalf; then she shall be clean from her flow of blood. This is the law for her who bears a child, male or female. If she cannot afford a sheep, she shall take two turtledoves or two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement on her behalf, and she shall be clean._ (Lev.12:6-8, NRSV)

@seancondon5572 2 жыл бұрын

12 pack of bud, 'leven rasslin' tickets, tin of Copenhagen, 9 years probation, 8 table dancers, 7 packs of redman, 6 cans of spam, FIVE FLANNEL SHIRTS! 4 big mud tires, 3 shotgun shells, 2 huntin' dogs, and some parts to a Mustang GT.

@dianethedinosaur3228 6 жыл бұрын

I had always heard that this was an old song making fun of Catholic priests (and to a lesser degree nuns). Such as the 5 rings making fun of the priests who were so money-hungry. Good to know that it's just a song for children. That makes the song much nicer. Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season & Merry Christmas!

@okaro6595 2 жыл бұрын

Well in Finland Christmas has three holidays: 24-26th of December. Also 6th of January is a holiday as well as 1st but it is not related. The Christmas Eve is not officially a holiday but de facto it is and it is the time of major celebrations. 25th is then to rest and 26th is to visit relatives. We do not get presents at morning but sometime around 6 pm so it as really annoying to wait it. First one had to go to see dead people etc.

@Marquise_de_Clarabas 6 жыл бұрын

I've heard that this was an adaptation of an old French song, Ar rannoù, in breton, Les Vêpres des Grenouilles or Les Séries, or either Le druide et l'enfant in French

@richardorta8960 5 жыл бұрын

I've been singing this song all day...

@daryaionesco2634 6 жыл бұрын

Because the Christmas holiday lasts for 12 days. It's pretty self explanatory.

@Rouverius 6 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine if someone actually gave all that to you? Your lawn and house would be in shambles. Merry Christmas All!

@grumpyguy2877 6 жыл бұрын

Favorite version Bob and Doug McKenzie 12 Days of Christmas 🍺 in a 🎄😀😄

@broc_ursal 4 жыл бұрын

The Great White North version is the best. They were a Canadian comedy duo and the origin of Rick Morranis.

@v2_kryptik696 6 жыл бұрын

If you add all the gifts together, it adds up to 364

@orlendatube 6 жыл бұрын

I am a fan of "alternative" versions of this song-esp the 12 pains of christmas!

@user-yq5fo9nb9x 6 жыл бұрын

In at the Jewish faith we have a similar song that is called אחד מי יודע ehad mi yodea Or one who know that song in the pesah ( a Jewish holiday) ‏

@SeanSinclair821 5 жыл бұрын

I'd never heard of the tradition of kissing when someone forgets a lyric of the song, but that's a good idea.

@dark_fire_ice 6 жыл бұрын

How about a video on liquid bandages (like New Skin) what makes them work, I don't know but them damn handy

@TS_Mind_Swept 6 жыл бұрын

And in our next video, the actual origins of Christmas (pls?)

@danmar007 6 жыл бұрын

There used to be 1. Ironically people had long attention spans back then. Days were gradually added to accommodate our galloping consumer society. Unless things change I imagine there will be 13 soon. :-) Merry Christmas to you and all of your research elves.

@prterrell 6 жыл бұрын

Huh? No. You clearly no diddly squat about traditional Christianity.

@kandyappleview 3 жыл бұрын

You mean to tell me I could be getting 12 days off work for Christmas every year?!

@akrybion 6 жыл бұрын

Before watching- I guess it's the days from Christmas Eve to the coming of the three Wise Kings.

@Otokichi786 6 жыл бұрын

Some of the items in the song aren't available in Hawaii, so a local version was created: www.huapala.org/ChristReligious/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas.html Two local comedians made a video and it got great airplay on "The Interweb.": www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/34093912/comedian-takes-on-12-days-of-christmas-in-hawaii-and-the-result-goes-viral And that's all there is, Christmas Eve, 2017.;)

@xxXthekevXxx 6 жыл бұрын

Missed opportunity to wear a Christmasy shirt ;)

@krisb294 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone willing to inform me of the few French songs that Simon was referring to? I'm learning French & would love to know more songs than just Frère Jacques & Alouette (the more historical the better since I'm learning mostly for 18th C living history stuff)

@ArchangelExile 5 жыл бұрын

9:23 Wait, what? Lol

@jimrichards7014 6 жыл бұрын

A beer in a tree. :)

@orlendatube 6 жыл бұрын

You NEED a store! I want a T shirt or tote! I am sure you can come up with some clever ones! If you do make one-please make it is somewhere where i can get a ladies shirt that doenst have a crew neck (they always feel strangle-y)-a scoop neck or a decent V neck (one that is deep enough to be able to tell it isnt a crew neck...what some people call a V neck is ludicrous!) would be much better!! Thanks! Happy holidays!

@samlucas7491 6 жыл бұрын

*are

@goodcarer1965 6 жыл бұрын

SlightPit30 rawr xd

@coryscamihorn1811 6 жыл бұрын

Ok, good, I'm not the only one who didn't think that was correct.

@AcrimoniousMirth 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I’m seeing an increasing occurrence of this grammatical error.

@snowman9555 6 жыл бұрын

People say "there's" and "here's" followed by the plural all the time. I can understand poorly educated people saying this, but even the top minds do so. Bill Gates is one example.

@anne-droid7739 6 жыл бұрын

snow man It's just because it is so much more awkward to say "there're"--it's one of those things that can frustrate the tongue, like "rural juror"--but nobody has an excuse for using it in writing.

@kennydavila3805 6 жыл бұрын

The partridge in the pear tree could be the tax collector in the Bible who was trying to see Jesus in a tree before Jesus told him to get out the tree and to join him for a while.