Twelve Days of Christmas
12 lords leap
11 ladies dance
10 pipers peep
9 drum defiance
8 maids milk
7 swans swim and strive
6 geese lay on silk
Bound with golden rings, 5
4 feathered birds call
3 hens in the French way
2 doves turn turtle
1 partridge comes to stay
Within the pear tree’s sway