12 Days of Christmas-Oz style.

Yes, I remember it but can only remember day 1 & 13; your memory is a lot better than mine!!

I remember this song well, and I've trawled the net to find the lyrics. It was really popular during Christmas 1974; and was often played on commercial (AM) radio stations; I remember especially 2UW and 2SM playing it. I used to sing it with my friends too, and we'd all have a good laugh. The lyrics, if I remember correctly were:

First day: A triple fronted brick veneer home
Second day: 2 Garden gnomes
Third day: 3 ducks in flight
Fourth day: 4 jars of vege
Fifth day: Fiiiive sausage rolls!
Sixth day: 6 cans of Camp Pie
Seventh day: 7 bathroom tiles
Eighth day: 8 Gold Coast teaspoons
Ninth day: 9 mulga wood ashtrays
Tenth day: The Bill!!!

with the price of real estate in Australia these days, I'd love someone to give me a triple fronted brick veneer home - worth AUD1M or more in major capital cities in the Land of Oz now.

Thanks Kate - 9 'Mulga wood ashtrays'. This will be preserved for future generations on the interwebs

What were 11 and 12?

Also wondering how ashtrays made of wood, be it ever so dense, panned out.

My recollection is that because we'd just gone metric christmas only had ten days.