"The Twelve Days of Christmas" will cost above $100,000 for the first time this year.

The 364 items repeated across all the song's verses would cost $101,119, an increase of 4.4% over last year, according to the annual Christmas Price Index compiled by PNC Wealth Management (www.pncchristmaspriceindex.com).

Those with the money to spend would end up with:

12 drummers drumming

22 pipers piping

30 lords-a-leaping

36 ladies dancing

40 maids-a-milking

42 swans-a-swimming

42 geese-a-laying

40 gold rings

36 calling birds

30 French hens

22 turtle doves

12 partridges in pear trees

(The price does not include bird maintenance.)

The purchase one set of each verse in the song will cost $24,263 this year — a somewhat moderate 3.5% rise.

Eleven pipers piping will set you back $2,427, but that's a relative bargain compared to seven swans-a-swimming, which cost $6,300. That's a 12.5% rise over last year.

The price of eight maids-a-milking at minimum wage was $58 — the same as in 2009.

Five gold rings declined to $645, from $650 last year.

But last-minute shoppers who turn to the Internet may be in for some surprises. The core list that costs about $24,000 in stores will come to $39,860 online — a whopping 16.1% increase over Internet prices last year.

The high cost of shipping live birds explains some of the difference.

Six items didn't go up in cost this year: French hens, calling birds, gold rings, maids-a-milking, ladies dancing and lords-a-leaping.

Pipers piping and drummers drumming rose 3%. The partridge is still the cheapest item, at $15, and swans the most expensive.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. checks jewelry stores, dance companies, pet stores and other sources to compile the list. Some of its sources this year include the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Ballet Company.

Source: PNC Bank/ The Associated Press

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