"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:
“The Supreme Court would have pleased me more if they had concerned themselves about enforcing the compulsory education provisions for Negroes in the South as is done for white children. The next ten years would be better spent in appointing truant officers and looking after conditions in the homes from which the children come. Use to the limit what we already have.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“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)
“Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 9:17.