Ten Green Bottles

Green bottles on a window sill

"Ten Green Bottles" is a children's repetitive song that is popular in the United Kingdom. In essence, the song is a single verse repeated, each time with one bottle fewer:^[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.

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

The word "standing" or "sitting" is sometimes substituted for "hanging". Various other versions of the lyrics exist, many of them vulgar or satirical.

See also[]

• Repetitive song
• "99 Bottles of Beer"
• "Ten German Bombers"
• "Ten Little Injuns"

References[]

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