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She's probably upset about the 140 human slaves she was gifted
None of my cook books even have a recipe for pipers, what am I to do with them?
Put them in a pie.
That's what makes them Pied Pipers
That’s the last time I go over the Lecter house for Shepherd Pie.
78 birds in total. They're all birds. No humans or gold.
First day of Christmas: 1 partridge in a pear tree
Second day of Christmas: 2 turtledoves
Third day of Christmas: 3 French hens
Fourth day of Christmas: 4 calling birds (blackbirds)
Fifth day of Christmas: 5 golden rings (pheasants)
Sixth day of Christmas: 6 geese a-laying
Seventh day of Christmas: 7 swans a-swimming
Eighth day of Christmas: 8 maids a-milking (magpies or cattle egret)
Ninth day of Christmas: 9 ladies dancing (lapwings)
Tenth day of Christmas: 10 lords a-leaping (cuckoos)
Eleventh day of Christmas: 11 pipers piping (sandpipers)
Twelfth day of Christmas: 12 drummers drumming (ruffled grouse)
This is an impressive post. You have:
- Misunderstood the plain language of the song, in which each thing is given on every successive day following its first appearance (not simply one time each),
- Presented a niche theory about the meanings of the lyrics as if it is fact, and
- Missed the joke.
Other lemmy users: bring your A game, the standard has been set
I'm still trying to hold up that the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day, Dec 25. And finishes on the Twelfth Night (like the Shakespeare play).