The Truth About the 12 Days of Christmas

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

⁠⁠In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at the rather humorous original name for the song Silver Bells. Moving on to the main content today we’re looking at the truth about the origin of the song “The 12 Days of Christmas” and what’s the deal with the weird lyrics. After that, we look at the truth about the origin of the Candy Cane and then a rather surprising fact about the song Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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