12days.py

# This is a code golfing challenge. The goal is to write a program equivalent to
# this one, with the smallest number of bytes in the source file
# You can use any programming language you like
lyrics = [
  "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",
  "partridge in a Pear Tree" ]

nums = ["first", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth", "seventh",
        "eighth", "ninth", "tenth", "eleventh", "twelfth"]

for i in range(0,12):
  print("On the " + nums[i] + " day of Christmas")
  print("my true love sent to me:")
  for j in range(0, i + 1):
    l = lyrics[11 - i + j]
    if j == i: print(("And a " if i > 1 else "A ") + l)
    else: print(l)
  if i != 11: print("")