Following my Buzzyblog post of yesterday, Ted Yeatman sent me this “12 Days of Christmas in Southern Maryland” and noted that it was produced by Mary Lou Troutman:
When I went looking for other variations of the 12 Days’ subject matter, I found that this has been a popular song to do parodies of. Here are a couple of those that were left to me on this, the 7th day before Christmas:
The National Park Service did a nice photo story of their version of the 12 Days of Christmas. The two photos shown above and below are from that article (click here for the other days’ entries.)
Then there is a book If the Twelve Days of Christmas Were Southern. Excerpt follows:
And at the risk of completely boring you, check out this Catholic Review discussion that the 12 Days of Christmas was actually a song with deeper/secret meanings written by persecuted Catholics about their catechism. (Note however, that the article does mention how Snopes and other scholars have stated that none of this was true (click here.)
Music-wise, check out this review of the 8 best versions/variations of the song including this one from the Foxworthy fella:
Sure am glad he explained how the 9 years probation factored in (2:00 mark.)
P.S. Think I still like Mary Lou’s the best.