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My son loves this carol, but he prefers the Sesame Street version which has Elmo up a Christmas tree and all sorts of monsters involved. There are also numerous Aussie versions. I can't remeber them all but one starts with an emu up a gum tree. Do other countries have local versions?

Dysfunctional Family Band has a rendition which is about a divorced man down on his luck. You'll need an MP3 player for this one:
http://www.mp3.com/artists/60/dysfunctional_family_band.html

Mp3.com has another version of this song online too which is a sort of abridged version:
http://www.mp3.com/artists/5/a_randy_little_christmas_x_19851997.html

I believe it was Allan Sherman who sang "The Twelve Gifts of Christmas" back in 1963. It was yet another modernized parody version which featured a "transistor radio" instead of partriges in pair trees. Bob and Doug MacKenzie of the Great White North did a version of the song for their own album in the late 80s. John Denver and the Muppets did a cover of it. Egad, who HASN'T recorded it? Most 'local' American versions are admittedly commercial, and rarely take the song seriously.

About.Com has an X-Files version, written back in 1997, which is cute. "Eight Eves a Clonin'" and "Nine tasty livers" are a couple examples. Well it's 'cute' to diehard fans of the show. Everyone else would be scratching their heads.
http://xfiles.about.com/entertainment/xfiles/library/weekly/aa122297.htm

Twelve Days of Microsoft, anyone?
http://www.tco.com/mstier/matthew/twelve.htm

I think my favorite version of this song ever though is by the Bob Rivers Comedy troupe. "The Twelve Pains of Christmas." It's available for download at http://www.twistedtunes.com/ but nothing beats having the actual album. It's also got songs like "Wreck the Malls" and "The Restroom Door Said Gentleman." Twelve Pains lists the worst aspects of the holiday season, like giving to all those charities when you can't afford it, or having all the relatives over for Christmas dinner en masse, or stringing up the Christmas lights in the middle of cold December.

Bah humbug. LOL!

I don't think the song is transelated into Norwegian, and I have never heard the original one, or any version at all!
But we have other christmass-songs in Norway, so I'm okey with it.

Reinhard Mey has recently published a German version with different animals on his new album "Einhandsegler" - I can provide the text, if anyone is interested.

I'm desperately looking for the recording of "and yet another Partridge in a Pear tree". Hilarious reading by Penelope Keith of Cynthia Bracegirdle's problem of receiving the 12 days of Christmas. I know it was a BBC Radio Intnl. But unsure of anything else. I think the recording was made in 1978.