Tenth Day of Christmas
By Rachel. Filed in Holidays |Tags: Christmas, Christmas Carols, customs, Holidays
Today is the Tenth Day of Christmas. Today is my last day of “vacation.” I go back to work tomorrow. Today Jeremy and I went to our friends from church’s house. They have two small boys. Mark is seven and Daniel is three. It was a lot of fun playing with the children.
Here’s today’s verse from the song:
On the Tenth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Ten pipers piping
(Nine drummers drumming
Eight maids a-milking
Seven swans a-swimming
Six geese a-laying
Five golden rings**
Four calling birds*
Three French hens
Two turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree.)
* Note: Wikipedia says “calling birds” is a corruption of “colly birds” which are black birds.
** Wikipedia also assures me that golden rings does not refer to “jewelry but to ring-necked birds such as the ring-necked pheasant.”