There are 31 days in December, so January 6th would be the 12th day.
Starting from (and including Christmas Day) it would be January 5th.
Christmas is included in the twelve days of Christmas. The twelve days of Christmas are the twelve days following Christmas day and counting Christmas day. It also leads up to Epiphany, which is January 6, so the last day of the twelve days of Christmas is January 5. :D
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The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas Day (December 25) or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26)
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The traditional song refers to the Christmas Day and the days after.
There is no correct date for Christmas decorations to go up. Different cultures have different traditions. Some make Christmas Eve the day for decorating, some decorate over the Advent period (the four weeks before Christmas), and others have no set period. Some also remove decorations on a set date, immediately after the twelve days of Christmas, (counting forward from Christmas Day).
The Twelve Days of Christmas
It's a changing day of the week on which Christmas falls. The holiday isn't celebrated on a specific day of the week, year after year. Instead, it always is celebrated on December 25th. This year it falls on a friday.
Twelve Days of Christmas?Might be wrong... not into these merry tunes. Hope it's helped.
4/4 time.
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