Even if you haven’t yet read the first instalment of Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas you might still have guessed from the title of this post the theme for this year is, once again, the classic Christmas song “The Twelve Days Of Christmas”. What was the gift on the second day of Christmas? It was of course Two Turtle Doves. So with yet another tenuous link, todays song is by Krautrock Kings Can with the song “Turtles Have Short Legs”, I already said the link was tenuous, right? The song was recorded during the ‘Tago Mago’ sessions, although it was not included on that album. It was the band’s second single under the Can name and was issued in March 1971. The lyrics are wonderfully quirky and just a tad strange with lines like “Turtles have short legs, not for walking”. I love a bit of Can, do you? There will be a playlist of all twelve songs when we get to the final one? What do you think tomorrows song will be?
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