"Twelve Days of Christmas" Show Notes and Credits

Versions of the Song

"A Fart-Bird in a Pear Tree: The Twelve Etymologies of Christmas"

A printable lyric sheet for "The Twelve Etymologies of Christmas" is here

An instrumental version of the music, for singing along to, is here.

Image Credits

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Sources

See here for the basic sources used for this and other videos.

Also see the related blog post for further information.

The following sources were used in compiling the information in this video in particular:

Cecil J. Sharp, A.G. Gilchrist, & Lucy E. Broadwood, “Forfeit Songs; Cumulative Songs; Songs of Marvels and of Magical Animals” Journal of the Folk-Song Society 5.20 (1916): 277–296.
Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie, “Songs of the ‘Twelve Numbers’ and the Hebrew Chant of ‘Echod mi Yodea’” The Journal of American Folklore 62.246 (1949): 382–411.
Iona & Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (OUP, 1966)
Elizabeth A. Dice, Christmas and Hanukkah (Chelsea House, 2009)
Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (OUP, 1996)
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32015/12-things-you-might-not-know-about-twelve-days-christmas
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-11-22/news/vw-6748_1_love-song
http://10000birds.com/birds-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas.htm
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/music/12days.asp
https://www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com/
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/origins-of-christmas-words/
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/12/twelve-words-christmas/
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/goller
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/swan-song.html

Transcript

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