Hi ! Merry Christmas ! I love this song and many other american songs. My entire family is from the USA and I came to Brasil when I was 5 years old. There are a lot of things I don't know or don't remember. I used to sing this song in day care in the USA. I looked up in the dictionary and Partridge means a kind of a bird. but I don't know for sure.Partridge in a pear tree ? I didn't understand.. Please, I accept your help.
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2006-12-25 07:20:05 · 17 answers · asked by vanny_1973 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
The Twelve Days of Christmas is a children's rhyme that was originally published in a book called Mirth without Mischief in London around 1780. It was originally a memory and forfeit game and it was played by gathering a circle of players and each person took it in turns to say the first line of the rhyme. When it is the first player's turn again he says the second line of the verse and so on.
100 years later the game and rhyme were adopted by Lady Gomme (an English collector of folktales and rhymes) as a rhyme that "the whole family could have fun singing every twelfth night before Christmas before eating mince pies and twelfth cake"
The verses are as follows: Twelve Drummers Drumming Eleven Pipers Piping Ten Lords a-leaping Nine Ladies Dancing Eight Maids a-milking Seven Swans a-swimming Six Geese a-laying Five Gold Rings Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and A Partridge in a Pear Tree From: The Reader's Digest Merry Christmas Songbook, published 1981.
A partridge is a bird and is sitting in a tree with pears.
2006-12-25 11:43:16 · answer #1 · answered by Martha P 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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Some Christians assign symbolism to the gifts in the song. One of the most common versions of these assigned meanings is: The 'partridge in a pear tree' means there is only one God and is also symbolic of Jesus (see Luke 13:34). The 'two turtle doves' are the Old and New Testaments. Though according to Zondervan's Twelve Days of Christmas the story behind a favorite Christmas song this is the 2 turtle doves sacrificed that Joseph and Mary brought when they presented Jesus at the Temple. The 'three French hens' are the three Persons of the holy Trinity or the three virtues: faith, hope, and love, though according to Ace Collins' book "Stories of the Best Loved Christmas Songs", they represent the expensive gifts of the Wise Men: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. The 'four calling birds' are the Evangelists: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; or their Gospels. Which makes sense because they are "calling" out the story. 'Five gold rings' are the first five books of the Bible, or the Pentateuch. 'Six geese a-laying' refer to the six days of the Creation. 'Seven swans a-swimming' are the seven sacraments and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. 'Eight maids a-milking' are the eight Beatitudes. 'Nine ladies dancing' are the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. 'Ten lords a-leaping' are the Ten Commandments. 'Eleven pipers piping' are the eleven faithful Apostles. 'Twelve drummers drumming' are the twelve doctrines in the Apostles' Creed.
2016-04-09 02:12:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is true, a partridge is a bird and a pear tree is a tree that bears fruit, but there is also a religious and symbolic meaning for all those gifts mentioned in the song, 12 days of Christmas.
The Partridge in a pear tree symbolizes God's gift of Jesus to us.
It goes on, for example the 5 gold rings are the first five books of the Old Testament (the "Pentateuch"), ten lords a leaping are the ten commandments, seven swans a swimming are the seven sacraments, 11 drummers drumming are the eleven faithful apostles, and so on. I forget the rest, but I am sure you can google or yahoo it, if you are so inclined to do so.
Merry Christmas!
2006-12-25 07:32:07 · answer #3 · answered by Trish<3 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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Hi ! Merry Christmas ! I love this song and many other american songs. My entire family is from the USA and I came to Brasil when I was 5 years old. There are a lot of things I don't know or don't remember. I used to sing this song in day care in the USA. I looked up in the dictionary...
2015-08-06 23:36:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Ann Ball in her book, HANDBOOK OF CATHOLIC SACRAMENTALS:
The two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments
The three French hens stood for faith, hope, and love.
The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
The five golden rings rerepresented the first five books of the Old Testament, which describe man's fall into sin and the great love of God in sending a Savior.
The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.
Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit-----Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.
The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit-----Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience [Forbearance], Goodness [Kindness], Mildness, Fidelity, Modesty, Continency [Chastity].
The ten lords a-leaping were the Ten Commandments.
The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful Apostles.
The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.
Original Source: Fr. Calvin Goodwin, FSSP, Nebraska
Printed with permission from Catholic Tradition.
2016-12-01 02:51:20 · answer #5 · answered by Jean 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning; the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to member of their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for religious reality, which the children could remember.
On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me...
A Partridge in a Pear Tree
The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus the Christ, the Son of God. In the song, Christ is symbolically presented as a mother partridge that feigns injury to decoy predators from her helpless nestlings, recalling the expression of Christ's sadness over the fate of Jerusalem:
Luke 13:34-35 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings…”
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
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2014-07-23 10:30:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A partridge feeds and nests on the ground so why is it in the pear tree?
2014-12-15 23:14:29 · answer #7 · answered by debrak 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that's right partridge is a bird
The 'partridge in a pear tree' means there is only one God and is a symbolic of Jesus
this is the symbolic interpretation
2006-12-25 07:28:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
A bird, (partridge) in a tree that bears fruit (pears)
2006-12-25 07:22:56 · answer #9 · answered by gunsmoke_70 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-25 03:11:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋