Hi Noah... I tend to agree :) change enacted. Davids post has been up a few times by several through the month so far. Conrad Hohfhammer :-) goes even farther which I think we will agree on for next year. We drop all the numbers from day to day... just leaving the day number in the opening line for each day.. drop all pretense of similar rhyme with the original 12 days song... and more or less stick to the meter of the original. Day 23 has come........ hmmmmm. I'm not exactly happy with day 21 or 22... the extra syllable in the day number causes problems.... Cheers RicB Better still...20 wretched beckets... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 From: "Noah Haverkamp" I think the prefix "a-" should only be placed before words where another syllable is required to make the rythm correct. So: "16 pins a-pomelled" is good. but "20 beckets a-buckling" adds an extra syllable. "20 beckets buckling" sounds good. With twenty two hobbling hammers Twenty one crusty keypins Twenty beckets buckling Nineteen shanks a-squiggling Eighteen keys a-knocking Seventeen barren backchecks Sixteen pins a-pommelled Fifteen butts a-bounding Fourteen wobbly whippens Thirteen coins a-clinking, Twelve tubby bass strings, Eleven jacks a-jumping, Ten grungy grommets, Nine brittle bridles, Eight damaged dampers, Seven fractured flanges, Six errant elbows, Five broken strings ! Four coats of paint, Three warped posts, Two pedals bent, From a Parson who wants it fixed free ! Noah Haverkamp Know-a Piano
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