I'm not so sure about this. Wikipedia says "The earliest known publications of the words to The Twelve Days of Christmas were an illustrated children's book, M

I'm not so sure about this. Wikipedia says "The earliest known publications of the words to The Twelve Days of Christmas were an illustrated children's book, Mirth Without Mischief, published in London in 1780" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Days_of_Christmas_(... This site https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-birds-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas https://www.birdspot.co.uk/culture/the-birds-of-the-twelve-d... tries hard to link them all to birds but it's a far stretch, considering it falls apart at "Five Gold Rings". "However, Mirth and Mischief includes an illustration that clearly depicts the rings as jewelry." Archive.org even has a scan of the book: https://archive.org/details/mirth_without_mischief/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/mirth_without_mischief/page/n7/m...