The song is a cumulative song, in which each verse contains all of the previous verses as well.
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The climax is sometimes abrupt and sobering as in " The Gingerbread Man . " The device often takes the form of a cumulative song or nursery rhyme.
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'A Partridge in a Pear Tree'is the first gift in " The Twelve Days of Christmas " cumulative song, this verse is repeated twelve times in the song.
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Cumulative songs are popular for group singing, in part because they require relatively little memorization of lyrics, and because remembering the previous verse to concatenate it to form the current verse can become a kind of game.
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One of the most well-known examples of a cumulative song is the Christmas song entitled The Twelve Days of Christmas, which uses a two-line stanza, where the second line is cumulative, as follows:
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The song is popular with children and similar to other cumulative songs : " Echad Mi Yodea ", ( " Who Knows'One'? ) another cumulative song, is also in the Passover Haggadah.
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The song is popular with children and similar to other cumulative songs : " Echad Mi Yodea ", ( " Who Knows'One'? ) another cumulative song, is also in the Passover Haggadah.
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""'The Twelve Days of Christmas "'" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the Christmas season starting with Christmas Day ).
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The French Pea duo starts off the show by singing the cumulative song with google images of Disney screencaps " There's a hole in bottom of the sea . " Pa Grape is second, singing " Zacchaeus Was a Wee Little Man ."
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Some of these additions, such as the cumulative songs " One little goat " ( " ?? ???? " ) and " Who Knows One ? " ( " ??? ?? ???? " ), which were added sometime in the fifteenth century, gained such acceptance that they became a standard to print at the back of the Haggadah.