Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:52 PM

We sang it in the summer camp I was in the year I was 10. I'm 59.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Metchosin
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:49 PM

dear misser drunk in bline river, I can't get pashed sheventy two... Can you? How dosh the song end...I forget...

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:47 PM

Perpetual motion:

"99 bottles of Bud on a wall,
99 bottles of Bud-
Take one down....put it back up
99 bottles of Bud...."

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:40 PM

I learned it Joe's way, sing it the other way.

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:24 PM

Aha! Joe, that ties it in closer to the "and if one green bottle should accidently fall" of Ten Green Bottles.

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:03 PM

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-

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Bert
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:55 PM

Probably a derivitive of the English song ten green bottles. Of course Americans have to be bigger and better than anybody else.

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: MMario
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:52 PM

As I understand it it derives from an old, old OLD song.

Subject: RE: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: Steve in Idaho
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:48 PM

There were four Marines sitting in Tun Tavern in 1776 doing recruiter duty - By the time the ditty was done they had a full company :-)

Subject: Who wrote '99 Bottles of Beer', eh???
From: GUEST,Blind Drunk in Blind River
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 03:44 PM

Okay, like, this has gotta be my favourite song, eh? Me and my buddies all know it, and we chug beers whele we sing it, eh? I've got the whole song, mamorized, eh? Cos I'm smarter than the average moose. Okay, so maybe you don't know it. It goes like this, eh?

99 bottles of beer on the wall
99 bottles of beer
Take one down (pop!), Pass it around (CHUG!!!)
98 bottles of beer on the wall

So, like, you keep singin' it, and counting down, and chugging, till all the beer is gone...or till you lose count, eh?

So, like, who wrote it? And when? It's been around ever since I remember, and I've got a memory like...well, it's like...whayddya call that animal that...you know...aw fer chrisake!

Well, anyway, who wrote it? I gotta know.

- BDiBR