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Lyrics: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"

The Twelve Days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me
A partridge in a pear tree...
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On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me:
Twelve drummers drumming
Eleven pipers piping
Ten lords a-leaping
Nine ladies dancing
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings
Four calling birds
Three French hens
Two turtle doves and
A partridge in a pear tree

"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
from Christmas Lost, Christmas Found
Illustrated by Cassandria Blackmore

"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Church of the Nazarene
Illustrated with lyrics & midi player

Origin of "The Twelve Days of Christmas": An Underground Catechism
By Fr. Hal Stockert (1995), Catholic Information Network (CIN)

The Origin of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
By Gretchen Passantino (1997)

Revised Version: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
By Gretchen Passantino (2001)

The Origin of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
By Philip M. Hamilton

Urban Legends: "The Twelve Days of Christmas" [tunes]
By Barbara and David P. Mikkelson

ASCII ART: "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
By Barbara L Nelson

"The 12 Sites of Christmas, 1996"
Presented by Netsurfer Digest
Graphic Images of the 12 Days of Christmas with Links
Sound files by sung by Christy Nilsen:
Straight Version, Blues, Gospel, Country-Western

"Twelve Days of Christmas"
Calendar by llizard aka ejm (Toronto, Canada)
Click on numbers 1-12 to see "animated gif" for that day.

Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas
Pupils from the Withywood Cluster of schools in Bristol, UK have created
12 pieces of web art, each based on a day from the 12 Days of Christmas.

Russian Eggs: "Twelve Days of Christmas" [tunes]
Set of handpainted wooden eggs housed in a specially decorated box
$185 from The Artshop of St. Petersburg

Fun Math Exercise: "Twelve Days of Christmas"
Exploring Discrete Mathematics in the Classroom
Created by: Judy Ann Brown, Leadership Program '92
Find the total cost of the items in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas"
Student Worksheet, Price Data

Twelve Days of Christmas & Pascal's Triangle
Exploring Discrete Mathematics in the Classroom
Created by: Judy Ann Brown, Leadership Program '92
Using Pascal's triangle, find the number of items given each day
in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas." Pascal's Triangle

The Twelve Days of Christmas for Lovers
Sheri & Bob Stritof, About.com
A Practical Solution: Spend $40 instead of $60,000

Drennon's Twelve Days of Christmas
Central Valley Christian School, Visalia, CA
Bill Drennon's humorous account of his 12 gifts

Venetia Murray, The Twelve Days of Christmas
Collins, St. James's Place, London, 1968, 254 pp.
A novel from December 17th to December 28th (completed 5th Nov. 1967)
(copy at Stanford Green Library: PR6063.U77.M9)

On Christmas Eve all children who live in a world where Christmas is
celebrated wake up early. They wake up earlier still on Christmas Day.
But Christmas Eve is the beginning. Magic, in children's lives, lives
in books and dreams and convesations with other children. Sometimes
children have parents who evoke magic by the stories they make up for
them when they are in that sort of good mood.

John Heath-Stubbs, A Partridge in a Pear Tree
Poems For The Twelve Days of Christmas
Illustrated by Emily Johns, Hearing Eye, London, 1988
(copy at Stanford Green Library: PR6015.E24.P257.1988)
Poem: Ibycus, London Interview, May 8, 1989

SEVEN SWANS A-SWIMMING

Seven wild swans are floating
Under a bleak sky, over a waste sea.
Another year comes round, and still
No end to their continual exile here.

These are Lir's children, changed
To wild whooping swans, that whistling call
Their desolate lament. Only a Christian bell, a hermit's bell
Chiming for matins or for evensong
Over the noisy waves, shall break
That black enchantment and restore them
To human form, human companionship.