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"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. The song, published in England in 1780 without music as a chant or rhyme, is thought to be French in origin.〔 "The Twelve Days of Christmas" has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 68. The tunes of collected versions vary. The standard tune now associated with it is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin, who first introduced the now familiar prolongation of the verse "five gold rings". == Lyrics == "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. There are many variations in the lyrics; they are discussed below. The lyrics given here are from Austin's 1909 publication that first established the current form of the carol.〔Austin (1909)〕 The first three verses run, in full, as follows: Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts, so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor: :4 Calling Birds :5 Gold Rings :6 Geese a-Laying :7 Swans a-Swimming :8 Maids a-Milking :9 Ladies Dancing :10 Lords a-Leaping :11 Pipers Piping :12 Drummers Drumming 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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