But why stop there? Here's the version in Ozark Folksongs, by Vance Randolph (Volume III, No. 456) 456 NINETY-NINE BLUE BOTTLES I heard my father sing this in the late 90's; he had learned it as a boy in South Carolina, shortly after the Civil War. From Mrs. Hugo Blair, Joplin, Mo., Sept. 4, 1929. NINETY-NINE BLUE BOTTLES Ninety-eight blue bottles A-hanging on the wall, Take one blue bottle Away from them all, Leaves ninety-seven blue bottles A-hanging on the wall. (And so on, until the singer is out of breath.)
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