Date:    Mon, 4 May 1998 18:54:45 -0500
<br>From:    Mike Salovesh <t20mxs1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CORN.CSO.NIU.EDU>
<br>Subject: Re: regional distribution?
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<br>Rima McKinzey wrote:
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<br>> My question, though, is how many of you sang (sing?) that with "take one
<br>> down, pass it around..." and how many with "If one of those bottles should
<br>> happen to fall, (number) bottles of beer on the wall"?
<br>
<br>Let me submit family testimony from me and my wife.  For us, in the
<br>middle 1940's, Chicago environs, bottles fell.  (Subjunctively, of
<br>course.) I didn't hear the "take one down" version until the late
<br>1960's.  In the early 70's, my kids learned of the gravitic propensities
<br>of containers of malt beverages in DeKalb, Illinois from their
<br>gradeschool classmates . . .  who apparently never thought of sharing
<br>bottles or anything else much.
<br>(In the line of drinkables, that is.  Other substances, other customs.)
<br>
<br>--  mike salovesh                               <salovesh[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]niu.edu>
<br>    anthropology department
<br>    northern illinois university                     PEACE !!!
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