No, no, no. Leaping Lords, not lizards!

Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters sing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” on a 1949 Decca release. From Wikipedia:

The song, published in England in 1780 without music as a chant or rhyme, is thought to be French in origin. “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 68. The tunes of collected versions vary. The standard tune now associated with it is derived from a 1909 arrangement of a traditional folk melody by English composer Frederic Austin, who first introduced the familiar prolongation of the verse “five gold rings”

The song lends itself to parody. Eaton Bob Magoon, Jr., Edward Kenney, and Gordon N. Phelps wrote lyrics suitable for the Hawai’ian islands in 1959.

It was a while before Christmas. I was sitting on the third lower floor of my house at Diamond Head,” Magoon recalled recently.

Ed Kenney was there, Magoon said, and he asked whether Magoon had ever done a Christmas song, and the answer was no. “He said I should try one.”

Magoon sang, “Numbah one day of Christmas, my tutu gave to me, one mynah bird in one papaya tree,” and Kenney said “That’s it!”

“We wrote it in 15 minutes.”

Kenney says he drew on his childhood in “dreaming up the lyrics.”

“I picked (the items) because they were things we had (in Anahola) when I was there in the breaks between going to Punahou.”

“Twelve televisions, because that’s what you want. Eleven missionaries because they seem to be ‘heavy heavy, hang over thy head.’ Ten can of beer (because) that’s what seems to be the libation for all of us. Nine pounds of poi would seem to be automatic … and five big fat pigs because when I was living with my grandmother in Anahola we had a pig pen and we had pigs, and we slaughtered the pigs and roasted them. Put them all together and you have 40 stinking pigs.