99 bottles of beer on the wall(1955)

[Page Stephens]

I don't know what any authorities say but I remember driving everyone within
earshot nuts by singing:

99 bottles of beer on the wall
99 bottles of beer
If one of those bottles should happen to fall
98 bottles of beer on the wall

etc, etc, etc.

Page "If I ever hear that song again I will kill the singer" Stephens

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Clements" <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: 99 bottles of beer on the wall(1955)


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> And, I lied(I'm up too late).  I used "beer on the wall"
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Clements" <SClements at NEO.RR.COM>
> To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 2:19 AM
> Subject: 99 bottles of beer on the wall(1955)
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>
> > I can't believe I just missed this.  Oh well--
> >
> > 28 July 1955  _Nashua(IA) Reporter_  8/1
> >
> > <<The ride is bumpy and the buses do not ease the jolts, but the kids
> don't
> > mind and engge themselves in joke telling, just conversation or singing.
> A
> > favorite song with the boys seems to be "Ninety-nine bottles of beer on
> the
> > wall...."
> >
> > Using newspaperarchive and "bottles of beer."
> >
> > Sam Clements
> >