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"Ten Green Bottles" is a popular children's
"Ten Green Bottles" is a popular children's repetitive song Repetitive songs contain a large proportion of repeated words or phrases. Simple repetitive songs are common in many cultures as widely spread as the Caribbean, Southern India and Finland. The best-known examples are probably children's songs. Other ...
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:
This pattern continues until the number of bottles reaches zero. The final verse ends "There'll be no green bottles hanging on the wall."
Various other versions of the lyrics exist, many of them vulgar or satirical.
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