A short script to print the lyrics to the 12 Days of Christmas

twelve_days_christmas.py

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 gold rings",
"Four calling birds", "three French hens",
"Two turtle doves", "a partridge in a pear tree"]

lyrics.reverse()

ordinals = ["first", "second", "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth", "seventh", "eigth", "ninth", "tenth", "eleventh", "twelveth"]

for verse in range(len(lyrics)):
    print("On the ", ordinals[verse], " day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, ")
    for line, gift in enumerate(lyrics[:verse + 1].__reversed__()):
        if line == verse and verse != 0:
            print("and ", end='')
        print(gift)

    print()