Here's how I learned it:
One hen
Two ducks
Three squaking geese
Four corpulent porpoises
Five limerick oysters
Six pairs of Don Alverso's tweezers
Seven thousand Macedonians dressed in full battle array
Eight brass monkeys from the secret, sacred, ancient crypts of Egypt
Nine apathetic, diabetic old men on rollerskates with a propensity toward procrastination and sloth
Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens from the deep whose whole thing is just around the corner from the quo, quivy and quay.