[from folksong NZ website]
A Pukeko in a Ponga Tree
The Twelve Days of Christmas
by Kingi Ihaka 1981
[A great song for schools, or for singing in the car while you are all
travelling back home to the coast for Christmas. The brightly illustrated book
makes a good Christmas present to send to kids overseas.]
On the first day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
A pukeko in a ponga tree
On the second day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
two kumera
And a pukeko in a ponga tree
On the third day of Christmas
....
and so on, until...
On the twelfth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Twelve piupius swinging
Eleven haka lessons
Ten juicy fish heads
Nine sacks of pipis
Eight plants of puha
Seven eels a swimming
Six pois a twirling
Five - big - fat - pigs !
Four huhu grubs
Three flax kits
Two kumera
And a pukeko in a ponga tree!
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