The Christmas celebrations are incomplete without the Christmas songs. The Christmas songs differ from each other in their subject matter.12 Days of Christmas is the title of a famous Christmas carol. 12 Days of Christmas Parodies or the parodies of the song 12 Days of Christmas are many in number.
The 12 Days of Christmas Parodies that was performed by the Canadian comedy team Bob and Dough McKenzie was quite popular among the people of the West.
Versions of the Original Song
Stan Freberg in his satire,"Green Chri$tma$", that dealt with the commercialization of Christmas created various different short versions of the original song -"Five tubeless wires","Five quarts of gin","Three cigars","Two cigarettes","And some hair tonic on a pear tree". Jeff Foxworthy's"Rendeck" version is the most popular parody version and the gifts that this parody includes are 12-pack of Bud, 11 rasslin tickets, a tin of Copenhagen, 9 years Probation, 8 table dancers, 7 packs of Red Man, 6 cans of Spam, 5 flannel shirts, 4 big mud tires, 3 shotgun shells, 2 hunting dogs and some parts to a Mustang GT.
Twelve Pains of Christmas
Another most famous parody of 12 Days of Christmas Parodies is The Twelve Pains Of Christmas that was performed by Bob Rivers and his comedy troupe Instead of a list of gifts; the song is filled with a list of activities that takes place during the festival of Christmas, especially in the America. The activities mentioned in this parody are lighting gift-giving ceremoy, dealing with family members, singing carols, finding a christmas tree, rigging up the lights and hangovers, sending christmas cards and also includes five months of bills, facing the inlaws, charities and others.
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