Lyr. Add: La Perdriole
Maud Karpeles, English translation

1
The first month of the year,
What shall I give my sweetheart?
O a little partridge
That rises, flies and flutters,
O a little partridge
A-flying in the woods.
2
The second month of the year,
What shall I give my sweetheart?
Two turtle-doves
And a little partridge
That rises, flies and flutters,
O a little partridge
A-flying in the woods.

Last stanza:
The twelfth month of the year,
What shall I give my sweetheart?
Twelve young girls in their castèl,
'Leven very fond young lads,
Ten milking cows,
Nine hornèd bulls,
Eight snow-white sheep,
Sev'n greyhound dogs,
Six running hares,
Five grey rabbits earth a-scratching,
Four wild ducks a-flying low,
Three wood-pigeons plump,
Two turtle-doves
And a little partridge
That rises, flies and flutters
O a little partridge
A-flying in the woods.

Copyright by Novello & Company Limited.
Maud Karpeles, ed., for the International Folk Music Council, Folk Songs of Europe, pp. 130-131, with musical score (composer not cited).

Partridge are a bird of the forest edge and adjacent grasslands or agricultural land, not the 'woods'.