On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me… 🎄 Admit it. You’re singing now. Everyone knows the lyrics to the famous 12 Days of Christmas song, but how much do we really know about the actual 12 days of Christmas? Let's see 👇
celebrated St John the Apostle. He is the patron saint of loyalty and friendship, as well as the author of the Book of Revelation. is called ‘The Feast of Holy Innocents’, a day of remembrance thinking back to the baby boys killed in King Herod’s search for Baby Jesus. is another day of remembrance, this time for former Archbishop of Canterbury St Thomas Becket, who was murdered on this day in the year 1170.
However, before he shaped the lyrics we sing today, the song had some alternate versions in the past. Some believe that the song is French in origin, the first printed appearance of the song was in the English children’s book Mirth With-out Mischief, published in 1780. In the original lyrics, the ‘four calling birds’ were actually ‘four colly birds’ – the old English slang for blackbirds.There is a theory floating around that during a time when Christians were punished for worshiping openly, “The Twelve Days of Christmas” song was used to secretly pass on the ideology of Christianity with each verse representing an aspect of Christianity – e.g The Partridge in the Pair Tree is Jesus, The Four Calling Birds are the four gospels etc.
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