A n Online Christmas Songbook
The Twelve Days of Christmas
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1. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree.

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2-4. On the [second - fourth] day of Christmas my true love sent to me

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                         Two turtle doves         and a partridge in a pear tree.
Three French Hens,
Four calling birds,

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5. On the fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me Five golden rings!

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5-12. Four calling birds, Three French Hens, Two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree.

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6-12. On the [sixth - twelfth] day of
Christmas my true love sent to me 		Six geese a laying,
Seven swans a swimming,
Eight maids a milking,
Nine ladies dancing,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Eleven pipers piping,
Twelve drummers drummings, 		Five golden rings!
Text:     Gallic Traditional (?!)
version from Husk's Songs of the Nativity, 1864
Music:     12 DAYS
Gallic tranditional (?!)
melody arrangement by Frederick Austen, 1909

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