Thursday, December 15, 2011

The 12 Days of Christmas

My family has a tradition of opening 12 small presents on each of the days leading up to Christmas.  Accompanying each gift, we sing the appropriate parts of the popular holiday song, "The 12 Days of Christmas."  This year, my mom sent Brett 12 gifts along with mine and we have been opening the gifts and singing together every morning.  It took him until Day 3 to tell me that there was an Aussie version of this song!  Anyway, I am in love with this and am now going to have us sing both versions before we open our gifts every year.  For the benefit of my family reading this (Brett says it is not worth typing in the American version since his family will know it), here is the Aussie 12 Days of Christmas lyrics:

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me an emu up a gum tree
On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me two pink galahs
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three kookaburras laughing
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me four lyrebirds
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me five kang-a-roos
On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me six broglas laying
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven koalas climbing
On the eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me eight dingos dancing
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me nine croc's a snoozing
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ten wombats washing
On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me eleven lizards leaping
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me twelve possums playing