milkisobel wrote:no i didn't know that song, is that a xmas trad english carol?
Yeah, there are twelve different gifts in the song but they are built up one at a time, so it starts off
"On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
A partridge in a pear tree."
Then the second verse is
"On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree"
So it ends up as quite a long song.