"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:
“More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“So that’s why you’re green around the gills. Spring comes to the bushveldt, the young bucks start butting their heads together.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)
“For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)