According to the song, what did my true love give to me on the 6th day of Christmas?

Question: According to the song, what did my true love give to me on the 6th day of Christmas?

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Six geese a-laying.

In the popular Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” on the sixth day of Christmas, the narrator’s true love gifts them “six geese a-laying.” This lyric is part of a cumulative song where each verse builds upon the previous ones, describing increasingly lavish gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas, a period that starts on Christmas Day and ends on January 5. Each day’s gift is more extravagant than the last, including both people and animals, each with their unique significance and symbolism. The six geese a-laying, in particular, are thought to symbolize the six days of creation as described in the Bible’s Book of Genesis.