The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Counting Passtime Song

One hundred bottles of beer on the wall.
One hundred bottles of beer.
If one of those bottles should happen to fall
There'd be ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall.

(Continue the song from the beginning substituting ninety-nine for one hundred and ninety-eight in the last verse until you get down to no bottles of beer on the wall.)

Submitter comment:

This was our favorite bus-ride song during any grade school field trips. We usually got to our destination by the time there were no beer bottles left.

Data entry tech comment:

Informant and collector are the same person.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT