Writing a cumulative song about the items in the house of women

You know the song 12 Days of Christmas? Well, I didn’t know other cumulative songs other than that one! So I went on Wikipedia and discovered two Irish cumulative songs and turns out Yiddish folk music contains lots of cumulative songs.

So doing this for the sake of Esther 2:13 – “Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king’s house.”

So the song starts off like this:

The time has come
To spend a night with the king
Choose wise__ly
The artifacts you wish to bring

and ends like this (maybe Esther sings this)

My night with the king
This I shall bring
Isn’t much, but from my heart
comes this offering

So in between, there are lots of items, sung in a cumulative song manner. However, instead of adding 1 item at a time, melodically-wise, it’s better to add 3 items at a time. So right now I am trying to decide how many items there needs to be in total, but here are some of the items so far, in the notebook.

So that’s it for now and can’t wait to finish this song which will be really fun to sing!