re: 12 Yats of Christmas

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12 Yats of Christmas
As a band geek at Chalmette High we'd do a performance of this every year during our Christmas Concert. It was an honor to be picked to do it. Only seniors got to perform it and you were voted in by the rest of the band.

The order of votes was the # of the song (highest votes sang the "first day" and so on...). I was sixth my senior year.

We all had to do our own props and stuff too. I got ahold of a blank, white cardboard six pack box and got some IBC root beers (can't have real alcohol at school!), since their bottles so closely resemble beer bottles. Painted the box up to look just like a Dixie 6 pack and taped white paper over the root beer labels and drew/colored them to look like a Dixie label.

Throughout the song I was popping and drinking the rootbeers. Towards the end as I was getting "drunker" I'd start burping before and after I did my line. Then on the last verse, I did the "six pack uhhhhhhhhhhhhh" like in the song.

It was always a crowd pleaser when we did that.

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