Our We Wish you a Merry Christmas Melodious Music Boxes
are approximately 3.5 inches long, 2¼ inches wide and 1 inch tall when the box is closed. When the Unusual Gifts For Mom Music Boxes are open, they are approximately 5.5 inches long. When the Melodious Music Boxes are wound they will play the much loved carol, We Wish you a Merry Christmas. The animation is in a 2 by 2 inch section of the music box. The center scene of these Unique Christmas Gifts are Frosty the Snowman. In the second ring of the music box four happy children ice skate around Frosty. The outer four corners have a cottage, a moose and some evergreen trees. Even the outside cover of the box has a beautiful picture of a winter scene with a horse drawn carriage carrying people through the snow.
A carol is a song of joy celebrating the great Christmas festivals of Easter, Christmas and New Years. Carols are most often sung at Christmastime. The custom of singing carols has been popular in Europe since the Middle Ages. It still forms a special feature of the Christmas season in many parts of the world. Bands of singers go about the streets for several nights before Christmas. They sing in the open air or visit hospitals and homes to cheer the sick and aged. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

Note: Do Not Over Wind. Over winding will lock or damage the music box mechanism.

The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Depending on the differing authorities and sources, the twelve days of Christmas are either the days from December 26 to January 6, or the days from Christmas through the eve of Epiphany, or January 5. The latter coincides more closely with the liturgical Christmas season.
Taking its name form the season “Twelve Days of Christmas” is a traditional English language carol. The date of the song’s first performance is not known, though it was used in European and Scandinavian traditions as early as the 16th century. An interesting fact about the song is that the total number of presents given is 364 with is 1 less than the number of days in a year. Check out our Other Christmas Figurines for the holidays.

Meaning of the Gifts in The Twelve Days of Christmas.

• The partridge in a pear tree is Jesus.
• The two turtle doves are the Old and New testaments.
• The three French hens are the three virtues, faith, hope and love.
• The four calling birds are the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
• The five golden rings are the first five books of the Bible.
• The six geese a laying refer to the six days of the Creation.
• The seven swans a swimming are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
• The eight maids a milking are the eight Beatitudes.
• The nine ladies dancing are the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit.
• The ten lords a leaping are the Ten Commandments.
• The eleven pipers piping are the eleven faithful Apostles.
• The twelve drummers drumming are the twelve doctrines in the Apostles Creed.

The story that goes with this interpretation is that English Catholics, suffering persecution in the 16th century wrote the song with these hidden meanings.
Some variations to the song are that ‘gave to me’ is sometimes used instead of ‘sent to me’, the ‘five golden rings’ are sometimes ‘five gold rings’.
The ‘four calling birds are an Americanization of the English wording ‘four colly birds’. Colly is a dialect word meaning black and refers to the European black bird.
The last four verses are sometimes interchanged so that one version of the song may have nine pipers, ten drummers, eleven ladies, twelve lords or any other combination.