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Thread #30003   Message #382450
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Jan-01 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
Seems like almost everybody sings:
Take one down and pass it around
The way I learned it in Wisconsin was
If one of those bottles should happen to fall...
In Wisconsin, people don't actually drink beer (except during the two-week summer season in August) - beer is what they sell to everybody else. I don't know if it's still true, but there was a time when Wisconsinites drank more brandy than the rest of the United States combined. It warms the innards.
-Joe Offer, now living in California where they make the brandy-