With Christmas almost upon us, Kinetica staff would like to thank the
1100 libraries that have supported our resource sharing activities throughout
the year and encourage you all to celebrate this Christmas season using
Kinetica’s premier service, the National Bibliographic Database.
While
tradition suggests ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ comes to us from France,
we have sought to forge our own traditions and, with the aid of the
NBD, offer our interpretation of this favourite Christmas song.
For
the ‘Twelve days of Christmas’, if you search the NBD—and here’s where
it loses any resemblance to the original—you’ll find:
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Three
drummers drumming
Just a small cacophony
Check
the Cat in the Hat Songbook
It’s
certainly worth a read
There
are eight pipers piping
Though you must truncate
this search
It
lists both scores and Irish songs
That
would sound surreal in church
Then
there are six lords a leaping
One with contents notes for
viewing
If you don’t like half-told
stories
Then
the summary’ll keep you stewing
There
are two ladies dancing
And they’re joined in quiet
refrain
By
two maids a milking
In
‘Piano Music, Arranged’
Only
one swan a swimming
Sadly looking for a mate
And
with just one goose a laying
It’s
not a pretty fate
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Seventeen
golden rings
A mixed bag that’s for sure
Country,
Jive and Doowop songs
But
no trace of Tolkien lore
And
just like the original
We have four calling birds
In
tales of folk and fauna
From
sublime to quite absurd
With
five French hens in Kinetica
We’ve two more than the quota
We’ll
de-dup ‘Birds of America’
So
there’s one less for the Rota
Eight
turtle doves,
And no, there’s been no duplication
We’ve
got Grimm, Bartok, Flores
And
folk songs that are Haitian
There’s
fourteen partridges in excess
But the one that caught our
eye
Is Richard Rodney Bennett’s
Delicious
‘Partridge Pie’
If
you search by any keyword
You
will find some Christmas cheer
The
NBD’s the thing to search
All
throughout the year.
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