The Twelve Dels of Christmas: My Festive Tales from Life and Only Fools

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Despite this, other theories about the word's origin are also found in the literature, such as that the word is a corruption of French collet ("ruff"), or of "coloured".

The index has been humorously criticised for not accurately reflecting the true cost of the gifts featured in the Christmas carol. 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.The video game StarCraft: Broodwar released a new map named Twelve Days of StarCraft with the song which was adopted a new lyric featured units from the game by Blizzard on 23 December 1999. This piece is found on broadsides printed at Newcastle at various periods during the last hundred and fifty years. In the 12 Disasters of Christmas movie, the song has actually been created by the Mayas to ensure that a prophecy of the end of the world be foretold among europeans even after the destruction of the Mayas' civilization. Sharp reports that one singer sings "Britten chains", which he interprets as a corruption of " Breton hens". Some authors suggest a connection to a religious verse entitled "Twelfth Day", found in a thirteenth century manuscript at Trinity College, Cambridge; [47] [48] [49] this theory is criticised as "erroneous" by Yoffie.

The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting with Christmas Day to the day before Epiphany (5 January). VeggieTales parodied "The Twelve Days of Christmas" under the title "The 8 Polish Foods of Christmas" in the 1996 album A Very Veggie Christmas. A special Creature Comforts orchestral arrangement of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was made by British animator Nick Park and Aardman Animations. A classic example of a cumulative song, the lyrics detail a series of increasingly numerous gifts given to the speaker by their "true love" on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).It has also been suggested that this carol is connected to the "old ballad" which Sir Toby Belch begins to sing in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. A number of later publications state that Austin's music for "five gold rings" is an original addition to an otherwise traditional melody.