I saw the Boston Pops Holiday Concert this weekend. They did an amazing arrangement of The Twelve Days of Christmas. For each day, they changed the tune/style of music. The one that sticks out in my mind is the fifth day, which was sung to the music of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
I LOVE that version! We saw them on Christmas Eve last year. No one wanted that song to end - which is unusual because normally we’d be gouging out our eardrums halfway through that song.
I seem to remember one of the verses sung to Bohemian Rhapsody or another Queen song.
Pretty cool, Tatze, that a big man like you would appreciate the Boston Pops and Beethoven! I am impressed.
At my parents’ home Christmas eve, we sing the 12 Days of Christmas. The guest who is visiting us for the first time is assigned the first day of Christmas, poor thing. That’s his/her initiation into our Christmas eve celebration.
The rest of us are assigned days...the song gets riotous sometimes. Very funny.
The visitors usually don’t come back next Christmas.