“Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer”

Description

Need I really tell you? "Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, Ninety-nine bottles of beer, Take one down and pass it around, Ninety-eight bottles of beer...." And so on, ad nauseum, drunkenness, or exhaustion

Notes

Randolph's and Brown's texts, obviously, refers to "blue bottles" rather than "bottles of beer"; might this be an attempt to clean up the song for a temperate audience?

I will admit amazement that neither Randolph nor Brown seems to know this in its common form -- but then, they probably were born in the days before school buses took students on field trips. - RBW

Cross references

References

  1. Randolph 456, "Ninety-Nine Blue Bottles" (1 text, 1 tune)
  2. BrownIII 190, "Ninety-Nine Blue Bottles" (1 text)
  3. DT, BOT99*
  4. Roud #7603
  5. BI, R456

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1910 (Brown)
Keywords: drink nonballad
Found in: US(MW,So)