The 12 Days After Christmas

Frederick Silver
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The first day af ter Christ mas, my true love and I had a fight. And

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so I chopped the pear tree down andburned it just for spite.

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Then with a sing le

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I shot that blast ed par tridge, that my

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car tridge, 1976

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true love, my true love, my

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true love, true my true love, my

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true love gave to me. The sec ond day af ter Christ mas, I pulled on the old rub ber

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gloves, and no so gent ly wrung the necks of both the tur tle doves, that my

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true love, my true love, my true love gave to me. The third day af ter
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Christ mas, my moth er caught the flu I boiled the three french hens to make some

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gour met chick en soup. The four call ing birds were a big mis take, for their

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soup. Oo
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lang uage was ob scene. The five gold rings were com plete ly fake, and they turned my fing ers

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green. Do ba do ba do ba do ba do ba do ba

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The sixth day af ter Christ mas, the six lay ing geese would n't

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lay. I gave the whole damned gag gle to a far mer from Kemp's
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do. Do ba do. so sev en swans a swim ming ev 'ry

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Bay On the sev enth day, what a mess I found:

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one, I drowned. that my love love, my true love, love, my true love gave to

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My true love, My true love gave to

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me. On the eighth day af ter

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me.

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Christ mas, be fore they could sus pect. I bund led up the

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eight maids a milk ing, nine la dies danc ing, ten lords a leap ing 'lev en pi pers pi ping

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Well, actually, I kept

one of the drummers!

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twelve drum mers drum ming, and sent them back col lect I wrote my

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true love, "We arethrough love." And I said in so man y words: "Fur ther more, your

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Christ mas gifts were for the four call ing birds, three French hens,

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for the four call ing birds, three French hens,

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two tur tle doves, and a par tridge in a pear tree!

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two tur tle doves, and a par tridge in a pear tree!

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two tur tle doves, and a par tridge in a pear tree!