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On Friday 16 January 2009 13:41, Julian Hall wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > The 12 days of xmas is out of copyright - but not the 5 gold rings 'tune' > > apparently! > > Tom te tom te tom > > Over the Xmas period someone on TV said the 5 Gold Rings was a later > addition. Given that the song wouldn't have gone from 'Six Geese > A-laying' to 'Four Calling Birds' it makes you wonder what the original > 5 was. It was, and has always been, lyrically '5 gold rings' but musically different - as in the same (basic) notes but not drawn out as it is nowadays to make a middle 8 to mix my metabollox. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html