Date:    Tue, 5 May 1998 14:03:39 +0200
<br>From:    David Sutcliffe <david.sutcliffe[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]TRAD.UPF.ES>
<br>Subject: Re: regional distribution
<br>
<br>Just to confirm Dan Goodman's remarks on 99 bottles of beer, etc.
<br>In England the song is:
<br>              Ten green bottles hanging on the wall (2 reprises)
<br>              And if one green bottle should accidentally fall
<br>              There'd be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.
<br>
<br>Lisa Gilbert, a colleague originally from Washington DC, sang her
<br>version to me ( the New York variant with "bottles subjunctively
<br>falling"). The British tune is different: slower because there aren't so
<br>many words to squeeze in. Lisa's theory, incidentally, is that the Uk
<br>version has only 10 green bottles because average car journeys are much
<br>shorter there.But who knows what happened to the beer.
<br>
<br>David Sutcliffe
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