Ten green bottles hanging on a wall and if one green bottle should accidently fall.
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall meaning.
1 ten green bottles hanging on the wall.
It is believed to be of english more specifically of yorkshire origin although one suggestion is that greenbottles refers to officers of the metropolitan police apparently underworld jargon for the new force founded by act of parliament in 1829.
It is about ten bottles falling off a wall one by one and many of the words are repeated many times.
Nine green bottles hanging on the wall.
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall br ten green bottles hanging on the wall br and if one green bottle br should accidentally fall br therell be nine green bottles hanging on the wall br nine green bottles hanging on the wall br nine green bottles hanging on the wall br and if one green.
In essence the song is a single verse repeated each time with one bottle fewer.
Like many folk songs the origin of ten green bottles is lost to antiquity.
Ten green bottles hanging on the wall.