But the festive season nowadays is rather more commercialised than in the times - around 250 years ago - when the carol was first published.
So what would happen when shoppers at a market tried to sing their way through the Yuletide shopping list?
Yorkshire advent calendar December 5: WATCH shoppers sing 12 Days of Christmas
Everyone knows that on the first day of Christmas, it was a partridge in a pear tree that ‘my true love’ generously gave.
By The Newsroom
Saturday, 5th December 2015, 8:00 am
