262 NURSERY RHYMES.

 

Eleven ladies dancing,
Ten pipers piping,

Nine drummers drumming,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimining,
Six geese a-laying,

Five gold rings,

Four colly birds,

Three French hens,

Two turtle-doves, and

A partridge in a pear-tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The twelfth day of Christmas
My true love sent to me
Twelve lords a-leaping,
Eleven ladies dancing,