<Tr> <Th> Older Musical settings of "Twelve Days of Christmas" </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Musical setting from Edward Rimbault's Nursery Rhymes, with the Tunes to which They Are Still Sung in the Nurseries of England (c. 1846). According to its preface, this book was "the first attempt to preserve by notation the ancient melodies to which these ditties are commonly chanted". </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> This melody for "The Twelve Days" was published in 1888 . It was "collected by the late Mr. John Bell, of Gateshead, about eighty years ago" (i.e. around 1808) Play (help info) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> This melody was current in "country villages in Wiltshire", according to an 1891 newspaper article . </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Musical setting from Edward Rimbault's Nursery Rhymes, with the Tunes to which They Are Still Sung in the Nurseries of England (c. 1846). According to its preface, this book was "the first attempt to preserve by notation the ancient melodies to which these ditties are commonly chanted". </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Musical setting from Edward Rimbault's Nursery Rhymes, with the Tunes to which They Are Still Sung in the Nurseries of England (c. 1846). According to its preface, this book was "the first attempt to preserve by notation the ancient melodies to which these ditties are commonly chanted". </Td> </Tr>

Story behind the song twelve days of christmas