World Holidays
This second-most populous country celebrates Buddha Purnima & Diwali, a festival of light
India
Name the 3 birds are the gifts for the first 3 days
French hens, turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree
During the holidays, Winter White Chocolate is one of the most popular of this chain's "31 Flavours"
Baskin-Robbins
"With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal"
Frosty The Snowman
Legend says enemies who met under a branch of this would drop their weapons & embrace; now we kiss under it
Mistletoe
The first Monday in September: ____ ____
Labour Day
Of the song's 12 gifts, it's the only one you could melt down & not be charged with murder or animal cruelty
Five golden rings
In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", carolers demand a "figgy" one & won't go until they get some
Pudding
"Come, they told me, pa rum pa pum pum; a newborn king to see, pa rum pum pum pum"
The Little Drummer Boy
It rivals the turkey as the preferred bird at English Christmas feasts
Goose
This country officially closes public schools on both St. Patrick's Day & St. Stephen's Day
Ireland
We found this eighth day's gift quite moo-ving
maids a-milking
About 1.76 billion of these striped treats are sold in the U.S. every year; most of them are used for decoration
Candy canes
"Where the treetops glisten and children listen, to hear sleigh bells in the snow"
White Christmas
Christmas is now quite popular in this Asian country where the Christmas greeting is "Meri Kurisumasu!"
Japan
Bastille Day is on ____ 14
July
On the 10th day, nobility abounded as my true love somehow thought I needed this gift
lords a-leapin'
It's an English tradition to adorn this tusked animal's head with sprigs of bay, rosemary & little flags
A boar (or a pig)
"And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and heaven and nature sing"
Joy To The World
In the U.S. we say "Merry Christmas"; in Italy, "Buon Natale" & in Mexico, this
"Feliz Navidad"
November 30, in Scotland: St. ____'s Day
Andrew
On the 12th day, my true love gave me this gift, something Charlie Watts could enjoy
twelve drummers drumming
At Christmastime you might have a "burning" desire to make a buche de noel, a cake shaped like this
Yule log
"No crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head"
Away In A Manger
A treasured history tradition in New York City is ice-skating beneath the giant Christmas tree in this plaza
Rockefeller Plaza