12 Days of Christmas

Last week my co-clerks and I had to sing the 12 Days of Christmas at the office holiday party. We had to learn and perform the Virgin Island version as crafted by the Ten Sleepless Knights. Here are the essential lyrics so you can sing at home:

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my woman gave to me:
one dozen roast fish,
eleven benya,

(like banana fritters)
ten sleepless (k)nights,
nine pounds of okra,
eight ball of fungi, (picture cornmeal + okra cooked together, it's quite yummy)
seven pans of sardines,

six shots of vodka,

five guava tarts,

four coconuts,
three sweet bread,
two cruzan rum,
and a dimy john of guava berry.
(much like the guavaberry liqueur we got from St Martin)