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Ten Green Bottles

Ten Green Bottles

Children's song

For the Vivian Jeanette Kaplan novel, see Ten Green Bottles (book).

"Ten Green Bottles" is a popular children's repetitive song that consists of a single verse of music that is repeated, with each verse decrementing by one the number of bottles on the wall. The first verse is:[1]

Ten green bottles hanging on the wall,
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall,
And if one green bottle should accidentally fall,
There'll be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.

Quick Facts Nursery rhyme, Published ...
Green bottles on a window sill

This pattern continues until the number of bottles reaches zero. The final verse ends "There'll be no green bottles hanging on the wall."[1]

Various other versions of the lyrics exist, many of them vulgar or satirical.[citation needed]

Another children's song, "Ten Fat Sausages", follows the same structure.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Ten Green Bottles". BBC Teach. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Ten Fat Sausages". BBC Teach. Retrieved 20 November 2023.


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