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What's more interesting is that while the "gifts" listed in the song may be what aristocratic Europeans would have given each other back in the 18th and 19th centuries, it's possible that the song was meant to remind Christians of certain numbered things from the Bible.
Here's a "religiously accurate" version of the 12 days of Christmas to entertain, as well as illustrate what those gifts really were:
On the 12th Day of Christmas, God gave to us...
12 Points of the Apostle's Creed,
11 Faithful Apostles
10 Commandments
9 Fruits of the Holy Spirt
8 Beatitudes
7 Sacrements
6 Days of Creation
The~ Pentateu~ch
4 Gospels
3 Theological Virtues
2 Testaments
...and Jesus Christ in a Crossed Tree.