Seventy - Eight Trivia Question

Question

First published in England in 1780, this English Christmas carol enumerates

a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

 In the early 20th century, English composer Frederic Austin

wrote an arrangement in which he added his melody from "Five gold rings"

onwards, which has since become standard.

A bit of modern folklore claims that the song's lyrics

were written as a "catechism song" to help young Catholics learn their faith,

at a time when practicing Catholicism was criminalized

in England (1558 until 1829).