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In the Christmas carol, ‘The Little Drummer Boy’, why does the boy bring a drum to the manger?
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The boy brings the drum because he doesn’t have any other way to give a gift to the baby Jesus. He couldn’t give him a lamb, because the baby Jesus wasn’t born in the middle of the night, and he couldn’t give him a goat, because the baby Jesus wasn’t born in a cave. He couldn’t give him a gold coin, because the baby Jesus wasn’t born in a rich man’s house. He didn’t have any money to give him, so he gave him a drum.