Twelve days of "The 12 Days".

I kept stumbling across versions of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and wondered whether I could find one for every day between Boxing Day and Twelfth Night, similar to how some people post a carol a day for the 24 days prior to Christmas, or my Hannukah series.

As I collected, I found more than twelve.  These are the versions I posted:

The First Day:  Pentatonix

The Second Day:  The Choir of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

The Third Day:  The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge  (that is rehearsal; this is a performance)

The Fourth Day:  Little Action Kids (I love their turtledoves!)

The Fifth Day:  Exeter University Singers

The Sixth Day:  The King's Singers and The Tabernacle Choir

The Seventh Day:  Angel City Chorale

The Eighth Day:  A purely instrumental version by Rory Hoffman

The Ninth Day:  Tenebrae Choir

The Tenth Day:  Young People's Chorus of NYC

The Eleventh Day:  A doubleheader of fun ones from Straight No Chaser and these guys.

The Twelfth Day:  A short one.

Also, if you total up everything that arrives (some people dispute whether you send the previous day's items again, or just the ones for that day, but I like maths), your true love receives:

• 12 Drummers Drumming
• 22 Pipers Piping
• 30 Lords a-Leaping
• 36 Ladies Dancing
• 40 Maids a-Milking (plus presumably their cows or goats)
• 42 each of Swans a-Swimming and Geese a-Laying
• 40 Gold Rings
• 36 Calling Birds
• 30 French Hens
• 22 Turtledoves
• 12 Partridges in Pear Trees

No wonder so many people like Frederick Silver's "The 12 Days AFTER Christmas"!
And "12 Days of Christmas - A correspondence by John Julius Norwich".

This year, the cost of all those items would be $46,729.86, without shipping.

Alan Sherman updated the song in the 1950's or 1960's.

I chose an appropriate bar of soap to use during the Twelve Days of Christmas: