"Ten Green Bottles" is a song for children that is popular in the United Kingdom. In essence the song is a single verse repeated, each time with one bottle fewer:
- Ten green bottles sitting on the wall,
- Ten green bottles sitting on the wall,
- And if one green bottle should accidentally fall,
- There'll be nine green bottles sitting on the wall.
There are variants with standing or hanging instead of sitting. Other variants include "Ten German Bombers" and the American "99 Bottles of Beer".
There is also a variation in French called "Les Moutons" ('The Sheep') sung by Jacques Brel in the album Jacques Brel 67 (1967).
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Famous quotes containing the words ten, green and/or bottles:
“Navajo men and boys have an odd way of showing their friendship. When two young men meet at the trading post, a “Sing”, or a dance they greet each other, inquire about the health of their respective families, then stand silently some ten or fifteen minutes while one feels the other’s arms, shoulders, and chest.”
—Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“I have seen a green country, useful to the race,
Knocked silly with guns and mines, its villages vanished,”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
“For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)