Monday, December 8, 2008

Dec 8 The Twelve Days of Christmas

Dec 8 The 12 Days of Christmas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song)

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree…
Two turtle doves…
Three French hens…
Four calling birds…
Five golden rings…
Six geese a-laying…
Seven swans a-swimming…
Eight maids a-milking…
Nine ladies dancing…
Ten lords a-leaping…
Eleven pipers piping…
Twelve drummers drumming.

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English carol in the form of a cumulative song, which means that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. The carol lists in detail a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

Its original purpose was a memory and forfeit party game, played by gathering in a circle of players. As they went around the circle, they tried to say the rhyme in order without getting confused, which we all know is not easy to do! In later years, the game and rhyme were adopted by Lady Gomme, an English collector of folktales and rhymes, as a rhyme that "the whole family could have fun singing every twelfth night before Christmas before eating nine pies and twelve cakes".

The carol was found in European and Scandinavian traditions as early as the 1500s, and was published around 1780.

Craft: 12 days symbols
http://www.origami-club.com/en/ Accessories>Several rings
http://www.craftbits.com/viewProject.do?projectID=1657

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