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
Four calling birds, three French hens
Two turtledoves and a partridge in a pear tree
I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
