Learn English in Las Vegas School: 2019

The twelve days of Christmas start on Christmas Day (December 25th) and last until the evening of the 5th January – also known as Twelfth Night, or Epiphany.
The song is about a series of gifts that get bigger and bigger on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

The gifts are:A partridge in a pear tree
Two turtle doves
Three French hens
Four calling birds
Five gold rings
Six geese a laying
Seven swans a swimming
Eight maids a milking
Nine ladies dancing
Ten lords a leaping
Eleven pipers piping
Twelve drummers drumming

The first version of the song appeared in 1780 in a children’s book called ‘Mirth without Mischief’.
It was probably designed as a memory game, where each person had to remember a longer part of the song. If they made a mistake they would have to do a forfeit.
The melody for the song was written by the English composer Frederic Austin in 1909.

I like you
I like you
I like you

If you're tall or small, I like you
If you're fat or thin, I like you
If you're rich or poor, I like you
I like you, I like you

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Keep dancing tonight

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Keep dancing tonight

If you're tall or small I like you
If you're fat or thin I like you
If you're rich or poor I like you
I like you I like you

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Keep dancing tonight

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Keep dancing tonight

No more no less I like you
If you're fat or thin I like you
If you're rich or poor I like you
I like you I like you

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody
Keep dancing tonight

Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody( tall or small I like you)
Shake it to the left now
Shake it to the right now (fat or thin I like you)
Ev ev ev everybody come on everybody (rich or poor I like you)
Keep dancing tonight (I like you I like you)