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DrWindy Origins: 12 Days of Christmas (WWII version-Blau) (5) RE: NewFolk 12 Days of Xmas 23 Nov 03


Found it! It was the Chad Mitchell Trio, not the Four Freshmen (senior moment!), but Google didn't turn up the lyric lines I searched. Found it by chance (serendip?) at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/gasarch/12/cmt.html

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
by Chad Mitchell Trio.
AVAILABLE from
The Very Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio
(Was also released on Vinyl

by Eric Blau

I tried to transcribe the words but I couldn'te
understand alot of them, so I have XXX there.
Also, some might be wrong.

THANKS to Gerry Myerson for help on some of the lines.

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And a partridge in a pear tree

Rudolph Hess's blessing

3 anti semites

4 Gestapo leaders

To hell with Adenauer

(He was German Chancellor in the 1960's)

we received from Israel, six guided missles

On the seventh day of Christmas the US send to me Seven more million dollars

On the eight day of Christmas my true love gave to me Telfunken H-bomb

(Telefunken was German Company that manufactored radios)

On the ninth day of Christmas we heard officially
        they hanged the wrong Eichman

On the tenth day of Christmas Iraq send us free
        10 swastika scribblers

(NOTE-- some versions have `Long Island' instead of `Iraq')

On the llth day of Christmas we heard officially
        monicles are back

On the 12th day of Christmas they told us Germany
        he's still alive ?

Corrections:
(trusting to my "senior" memory)
ON the 12 day of Christmas they told all Germany: He ist still alife

on the 10th day, Iraq is Long Island

On the 8th day, there was a little patter that went:
"Telefunken H-Bomb? What the 'ell is a telefunken H-Bomb? Well, it's like a Telefunken radio, but when you're trying to get London, your're trying to *get* London!"

On the 7th day, it is "The US send us, free: 7 more million dollars"

On the 5th day of Christmas, my true love said to me: "To hell..."

Kappy-happy Joy-joy! Now I can embarrass my childen and grandchildren at Thanksgiving dinner!

DrWindy


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