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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
- Subject: Original 12 days after Christmas in its entirety
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:33:00 GMT
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- The Twelve Days After Christmas
- (as learned in Catholic choir....)
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- The first day after Christmas,
- My true love and I had a fight.
- And so I chopped the pear tree down and burned it just for spite.
- Then with a single cartridge, I shot that awful partridge,
- My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
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- The second day after Christmas,
- I pulled on the old rubber gloves,
- And very gently wrung the necks of both the turtledoves,
- My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
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- The third day after Christmas, my mother caught the croup.
- I had to use the three French hens to make some chicken soup.
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- The four calling birds were a big mistake,
- for their language was obscene.
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- The five gold rings were completely fake,
- and they turned my fingers green.
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- The sixth day after Christmas, the six laying geese wouldn't lay.
- I gave the whole darn gaggle to the A.S.P.C.A.
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- On the seventh day what a mess I found,
- All seven of the swimming swans had drowned,
- My true love, my true love, my true love gave to me.
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- The eighth day after Christmas, before they could suspect,
- I bundled up the eight maids a-milking,
- nine ladies dancing,
- ten lords a-leaping,
- eleven pipers piping,
- twelve drummers drumming...
- and sent them back collect.
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- I wrote my true love,
- "We are through, love!"
- And I said in so many words,
- Furthermore your Christmas gifts are for the....
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- [choir breaks into two parts here]
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- Four calling birds, biiiiiiiiiiii
- Three french hens, iiirrrrrrrrrr
- Two turtledoves, rrrrrrrrrrrdd
- And a partridge in a pear tree. ddddddddsssss.
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- Here, write it, or it will be erased by the wind.
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- - Isabel Allende
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