99 bottles of beer on the wall(1955)

[Mark A. Mandel]

 Anne Gilbert <kebara at COMCAST.NET>wrote:

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Barbara:

> That's the version I grew up with, but I have also heard the third line as
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> If one of those bottle should happen to fall

Hmmmmmm. . . . I never heard that version when I was growing up.  There must
be regional variations of one kind or another.
Anne G
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That's the first version I learned (with "bottles"; I assume that the
singular above is a typo). Summer camp, either New York State or
Connecticut, late 1950s or early 1960s.

-- Mark A. Mandel
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