My True Love Sent to Me ...........

[JennieAtkinson]

Today being the last day of Christmas and having a spare moment or two over the last couple of days courtesy of the weather, my husband and I worked out that had our true love sent everything promised, on this day we would have:

• 12 partridges
• 22 turtle doves
• 30 french hens
• 36 calling birds
• 40 gold rings (not bad )
• 42 geese a laying
• 42 swans a swimming
• 40 maids a milking
• 36 drummers drumming (headache time!)
• 30 pipers piping
• 22 ladies dancing
• 12 lords a leaping

A grand total of 364 items Somewhat noisy methinks!

[shirlthegirl43]

Can you imagine the feed bills!!! However, there would be plenty of fertiliser

[sewer rat]

Jennie - you would also have 12 pear trees !!!!

[bubblewrap]

Jennie - you would also have 12 pear trees !!!!

Plenty of perry then?

[wellie]

Jennie Luv - maybe you should 'get out more' in 2008?!

[Flummery]

Truelove sent all that? Grounds for divorce!

[HeyWayne]

Today being the last day of Christmas and having a spare moment or two over the last couple of days courtesy of the weather, my husband and I worked out that had our true love sent everything promised, on this day we would have:

• 12 partridges
• 22 turtle doves
• 30 french hens
• 36 calling birds
• 40 gold rings (not bad )
• 42 geese a laying
• 42 swans a swimming
• 40 maids a milking
• 36 drummers drumming (headache time!)
• 30 pipers piping
• 22 ladies dancing
• 12 lords a leaping

A grand total of 364 items Somewhat noisy methinks!

So, something for everyday of the year - apart from Christmas when you get something else?

[moggssue]

Good grief - I didnt get anywhere near that from MY true love!!!!

[SarzWix]

Funny, my daughter (aged 7) was just asking about this yesterday! Her question "Why would you want a load of leaping lords & dancing ladies?" I had no sensible answers for her

[Winged one]

Have you ever heard the irish version of this song? It's by Frank somebody I think - Kelly maybe? But he is writing to his true love to thank her everyday for the pressies - wonderful at the start but the various fowl start fighting with each other, the leaping lords and dancing ladies start running off with each other and the maids a milking have left a big mess in the parlour (very parpahrased, but you get the idea). It's very very funny.

[beefy]

Have you ever heard the irish version of this song? It's by Frank somebody I think - Kelly maybe? But he is writing to his true love to thank her everyday for the pressies - wonderful at the start but the various fowl start fighting with each other, the leaping lords and dancing ladies start running off with each other and the maids a milking have left a big mess in the parlour (very parpahrased, but you get the idea). It's very very funny.

This is what you are on about -
YouTube - Christmas Countdown

[wellie]

You know something? I think this (apart from a Two Ronnies comedy LP) was the very first comedy record I bought for my darling Dad, and, as very stiff-upper-lip and totally Victorian as he was, he absolutely wet himself laughing, and listened to it over and over and over again.... and every time, he laughed even louder and longer.

How can you NOT wet yourself laughing at this cumulative kind of humour.....
Absolutely Priceless! and thank you for bringing it back to make us all wet ourselves?
New Pants Please!...
X

[Hazel at the Hill]

I still have a Two Ronnies LP (Jehosophat and Jones) which was my dad's. Actually, I think I can sing every one of the songs word for word....

[Winged one]

I'll have to check tonight if I can get online at home - you tube is banned at work ah boo! But I always have a great laugh listening to it, I never heard it this Christmas though and it is usually on a couple of times at least. I always think of the "poor mammy"!!