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However, the melody for "four colly birds, three French hens, two turtle doves" changes from this point, differing from the way these lines were sung in the opening four verses. A Māori / New Zealand version, titled "A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree", written by Kingi Matutaera Ihaka, appeared as a picture book and cassette recording in 1981.
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. 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. Jasper Carrott performed "Twelve Drinks of Christmas" where he appears to be more inebriated with each successive verse.
The possibility that the twelve gifts were used as a catechism during the period of Catholic repression was also hypothesised in this same time period (1987 and 1992) by Fr. Featuring different animals discussing or trying to remember the lyrics of the song, it was released on Christmas Day 2005. In the earliest versions, the word on is not present at the beginning of each verse—for example, the first verse begins simply "The first day of Christmas". Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded the traditional version of this song on 10 May 1949 for Decca Records.Some variants have " juniper tree" or " June apple tree" rather than "pear tree", presumably a mishearing of "partri dge in a pear tree". The image of the bird in the pear tree also appears in lines from a children's counting rhyme an old Mother Goose. The lyrics given here are from Frederic Austin's 1909 publication that established the current form of the carol. Similarly, Iceland has a Christmas tradition where " Yule Lads" put gifts in the shoes of children for each of the 13 nights of Christmas.
It has thirteen days rather than twelve, and the number of gifts does not increase in the manner of "The Twelve Days". As each gift is received, Gobnait gets increasingly upset with the person who sent them, as said gifts wreak havoc in the house where he lives with his mother. The earliest known publications of the words to The Twelve Days of Christmas were an illustrated children's book, Mirth Without Mischief, published in London in 1780, and a broadsheet by Angus, of Newcastle, dated to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries. The 1780 version has "four colly birds"— colly being a regional English expression for "coal-black" (the name of the collie dog breed may come from this word).William and Ceil Baring-Gould reiterate this idea, which implies that the gifts for first seven days are all birds. I have not met with the tune of it elsewhere, nor with the particular version of the words, and have, in this setting, recorded both to the best of my recollection.
Edith Fowke recorded a single version sung by Woody Lambe of Toronto, Canada in 1963, [86] whilst Herbert Halpert recorded one version sung by Oscar Hampton and Sabra Bare in Morgantown, North Carolina One interesting version was also recorded in 1962 in Deer, Arkansas, performed by Sara Stone; [87] the recording is available online courtesy of the University of Arkansas.
Christian rock band Relient K released a recording of the song on their 2007 album Let It Snow, Baby.
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