The Christmas season is a favorite of mine, and, since I love to sing, Christmas carols are a big part of that. But tonight I hang my head in shame…………for, lo, these many years, I have been singing of the "four calling birds" (from The Twelve Days of Christmas song).
Wrong! They are "colly birds"! (Apparently "colly" is just a way of saying they are black as coal). I daresay 99% of the good folks attempting to sing this favorite holiday tune have been "calling" all these years, as I was; so now we Slopers have something else to be smug about, now that we've finally got it right.
