The twelve Hawaiian days of Christmas

There’s the traditional version, the red neck version, the twelve pains of Christmas–even Bob and Doug McKenzie got in on it. So of course, you would just have to expect that there is a Hawaiian version of the Christmas carol, too, wouldn’t you? Well I didn’t, so back off!

Anyhow, while at the Christmas party of a friend this past weekend, we were treated to the full version of the song, and I just have to post some of it here. I am, however, going to operate under the belief that reading the entire set of lyrics of the twelve days of Christmas is just as painful as listening to all of them, so I will post the final day, and you can determine the rest for yourselves.

As a sidenote: the pigs have been added up at day twelve, so while there are normally five, there are forty in this last verse. In addition, the pigs’ descriptive adjectives are “beeg” and “fat” ordinarily, but have been changed in verse twelve. If this is all too confusing, you can click here
for the full set of lyrics–and if I find out you did, I’ll name you a masochist.

So without further aloha…

Numbah Twelve day of Christmas, my tutu give to me
Twelve TELEVISION, eleven missionary, ten can of beer, Nine pound of poi,
eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin’, Seex hula lesson,
FORTY steenkin’ peeg,
Foah flowah lei, tree dry squid, two coconut,
An’ one mynah bird in one papaya tree!

I’ll post more Christmas stuff soon!

Mele Kalikimaka!