From: Sally Bradshaw <songful@c...> Sally Bradshaw <songful@c...> Date: Thu Dec 28, 2000 12:26 am Subject: 12 days of Christmas
I heard recently that the nonsense rhymes of this carol would seem to come from cod translations from French, ie "a partridge - une perdrix" becomes "a partridge in a pear tree". That seems to me to be the most probable source of the words.