![]() ![]() (a) differences in wording, ignoring capitalisation and punctuation, are indicated in italics (including permutations, where for example the 10th day of Austin's version becomes the 9th day here) įor ease of comparison with Austin's 1909 version given above: For example, the pipers may be on the ninth day rather than the eleventh. The gifts associated with the final four days are often reordered.In the standard melody, this change enables singers to fit one syllable per musical note. "Five gold rings" has often become "five golden rings", especially in North America.Frederic Austin's 1909 version, which introduced the now-standard melody, also altered the fourth day's gift to four "calling" birds, and this variant has become the most popular, although "colly" is still found. ![]() This wording must have been opaque to many even in the 19th century: " canary birds", "colour'd birds", "curley birds", and "corley birds" are found in its place.
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