On the fourth day of Christmas. . .
On the fourth day of Christmas my true love sent to me . . .
The Fourth Day of Christmas
Four Calling Birds!
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The Third Day of Christmas
Three Fat Sheep!
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The Second Day of Christmas
Two Spitting Llamas!
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The first day of Christmas!
… And a Parrot on a Fairrryyyyy!
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New Style, cost of 4 Calling Birds: $0
Old (Classic) Style, cost of 4 Colly Birds: $0
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But wait! Just what IS a colly bird???
The verse as sung today as four calling birds is actually a corruption of the English word colly or collie. So, it’s really referring to “four colly birds” or “four collie birds”.
In England a coal mine is called a colliery and colly or collie is a derivation of this and means black like coal. So that makes a colly bird a black bird.
Blackbird
Both our four calling birds and the four colly birds are wild birds, so counted as free.
Therefore, today the costs come out even, and the total stays the same.
Total to date:
New Style – $1,970
Classic Style – $463
