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99 Bottles of Beer" or "100 Bottles of Pop on the Wall" is a traditional reverse counting song from the United States and Canada. It is popular to sing on road trips, as it has a very repetitive format which is easy to memorize and can take a long time when sung in full.
In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded: Nine, ten, kill a fat hen;
Cumulative songs build from one verse to another, like bricks on a pile, as in "Old McDonald Had a Farm". 'Counting songs' may count up or down, as with "99 Bottles of Beer". "One Man went to Mow" counts up overall, but down in each verse. Decrementing songs generally end before or around zero, for example "Three Craws" (Roud 4582 ...
The first track on Seanan McGuire's album Wicked Girls, also titled "Counting Crows", features a modified version of the rhyme. [14] The artist S. J. Tucker's song, "Ravens in the Library," from her album Mischief, utilises the modern version of the rhyme as a chorus, and the rest of the verses relate to the rhyme in various ways. [15]
"Counting Every Blessing" is a song performed by Northern Irish Christian experimental, folk rock, worship band Rend Collective. The song was released as the second single from their 2018 album Good News on January 5, 2018. [ 5 ]
A counting-out game or counting-out rhyme is a simple method of 'randomly' selecting a person from a group, often used by children for the purpose of playing another game. . It usually requires no materials, and is achieved with spoken words or hand gestur
Cyfri'r Geifr (Welsh for 'Counting the Goats'), also known as Oes Gafr Eto after the first line, is a Welsh folk song. [1] Both the tune and the words are traditional, and have developed over the centuries.
The song was rewritten as a counting song for a performance on Sesame Street, in which Feist counts chickens, monsters (Elmo, Zoe, Rosita, and Telly) and penguins to 4. [50] Brooke White of American Idol fame performed a cover of "1234" during her set on the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2008, which ran from July 1 to September 13.