The Twelve Days of a Beach Christmas

by Jayne Ormerod   

‘Tis the season, as they say for Christmas Carols, and parodies thereof.  Perhaps the most parodied song ever (seasonal or otherwise) is "The Twelve Days of Christmas".  Who amongst us hasn’t smiled when we heard the barking dogs version or the Redneck tune?  Today I offer up a slightly different version of my own making that represents beach life.  Feel free to sing along!  

On the first day of Christmas I saw along the shore:

A lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.

On the second day of Christmas I saw long the shore:

Two fiddler crabs;

  And a lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.

On the third day of Christmas I saw along the shore,

Three sand castles;

  Two fiddler crabs;

    And a lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.

On the fourth day of Christmas I saw along the shore:

Four pails of seashells;

  Three sand castles;

    Two fiddler crabs;

       And a lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.

On the fifth day of Christmas I saw along the shore:

Five sea glass orbs;

  Four pails of seashells;

    Three sand castles;

      Two fiddler crabs;

        And a lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.

<<fast forward to the final verse and cue the crescendoing organ music…>>

On the twelfth day of Christmas I saw along the shore:

Twelve surfers surfing;

 Eleven sailboats heeling;

  Ten dolphins leaping;

   Nine buoys bobbing;

    Eight seahorses swimming;

     Seven starfish floating;

      Six seagulls squawking;

       Five sea glass orbs;

        Four pails of seashells;

         Three sand castles;

          Two fiddler crabs;

And a lighthouse with a shell wreath on its door.