As I listened to John Denver and The Muppets sing "The Twelve Days Of Christmas" on KEZK this morning, I thought, "This is the only version of this carol I'd want to hear repeatedly." Denver and The Muppets bring out the fun in it, but almost every other version of it is largely tedious.
Hearing "...Twelve Days..." also reminded me of an assignment in my eighth grade English class. "Choose a Christmas carol and revise its lyrics with a Halloween theme," the teacher said. After hearing a few students murmuring possible lyrics such as "Twelve ghosts a-haunting" and "Eleven bats a-flying," she added, "The one restriction is that you can't choose 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas.' It's too easy to write lyrics that are just random lists of Halloween-related items, so if you were going to choose that carol, please select another one instead."
I still think that was a reasonable request.
