12 Days of Christmas

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a well known Christmas carol which is a cumulative song of increasingly numerous gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Asking questions on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is popular in Christmas quizzes.

Twelve Days of Christmas

1. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me
   A partridge in a pear tree.
2. On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
   Two turtle doves,
   And a partridge in a pear tree.
3. On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
   Three French hens,
   Two turtle doves,
   And a partridge in a pear tree.
4. Four calling birds
5. Five gold rings
6. Six geese a-laying
7. Seven swans a-swimming
8. Eight maids a-milking
9. Nine ladies dancing
10. Ten lords a-leaping
11. Eleven pipers piping
12. Twelve drummers drumming