22nd day of xmas

[Richard Brekne]

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