Christmas in Texas

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Christmas Carols

Twelve Days of Christmas

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• Angels We Have Heard on High
• Away in a Manger
• Carol of the Bells
• Deck the Hall
• I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
• It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
• Jingle Bells
• Joy to the World
• O Christmas Tree
• O Come All Ye Faithful
• O Holy Night
• O Little Town of Bethlehem
• Silent Night, Holy Night
• The First Noel
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
• Good King Winceslas
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas
• What Child is This

Each verse in the "Twelve Days of Christmas" builds on the verse before it. There are twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

The first verse begins:

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

The second verse builds off the first:

On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me Two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree.

The third verse builds off the second:

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.

and so on.

The last verse is:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
eleven pipers piping,
ten lords a-leaping,
nine ladies dancing,
eight maids a-milking,
seven swans a-swimming,
six geese a-laying,
five golden rings;
four calling birds,
three French hens,
two turtle doves
and a partridge in a pear tree.