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Ten green bottles

89 replies

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/05/2015 21:34

In the sing they are "hanging on a wall".

Dh will persist in singing tunelessly " sitting on the wall" which is all kinds of wrong.

Aibu?

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Original poster
MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/05/2015 21:34

Song obvs. Sigh.

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HappyHippyChick · 21/05/2015 21:35

YANBU. Definitely hanging on the wall. LTB.

McDreamyMcNastyMcHottie · 21/05/2015 21:35

Sitting. Definitely sitting.

PinkSquash · 21/05/2015 21:36

Sitting, fo sho

FindoGask · 21/05/2015 21:36

sitting.

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MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/05/2015 21:37

Oh fuck. It's going to be like scone-gate all over again. Both of them (cream then jam and it rhymes with stone).

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PinkSquash · 21/05/2015 21:37

I mean hanging ffs.

RowRowRowCrocodileScream · 21/05/2015 21:38

YANBU, definitely "hanging" although I think my DH would agree with your DH Grin

velocityofbeans · 21/05/2015 21:38

Hanging, definitely! I know this because I sing it when I walk home from work Smile

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MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/05/2015 21:39

Phew, it might be ok after all.

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OrlandoWoolf · 21/05/2015 21:40

Standing on the wall.

Why would they be hanging?
How would they fall off?

iklboo · 21/05/2015 21:41

Hanging.

Like many folk songs the origin of "Ten Green Bottles" is lost to antiquity, it was believed to be of English, more specifically of Yorkshire origin, although one suggestion is that greenbottles refers to officers of the Metropolitan Police, apparently underworld jargon for the new force founded by Act of Parliament in 1829. This could explain why the bottles were said to be hanging on the wall rather than sitting on it. This explanation sounds plausible, but in September 1998, a French academic found a fragment of a manuscript, apparently dating from the late 14th Century, which appears to be the earliest extant version. It runs:
"Syxthene boetell gryne
Yhangen, Yhangen
Yhangen, Yhangen
Syxthene boetell gryne
Doonfal won
Syxthene boetell gryne
Yhangen, Yhangen
An'

LuckyLuckyMe · 21/05/2015 21:42

Sitting. Why would bottles be hanging?

iklboo · 21/05/2015 21:42

Although I do sing 'standing' Blush

WinterBabyof89 · 21/05/2015 21:44

Sitting

SurlyCue · 21/05/2015 21:45

Its sitting of course.
How would they be hanging? How would they fall if hanging?

Lemondrizzletwunt · 21/05/2015 21:46

Have just asked DH to sing it. As such I have it on good authority that it is 'standing' Grin

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MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 21/05/2015 21:46

Why would be hanging?

That philosophical question is beyond me. They just are/do.

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WendyTorrance · 21/05/2015 21:50

HANGING. They're HANGING.

That is all.

HoundoftheBaskervilles · 21/05/2015 21:51

STANDING.

linspins · 21/05/2015 21:52

Most def hanging on the wall. End of. They just are.

WendyTorrance · 21/05/2015 21:55

I've just put this question to DH. He said "it's sitting or standing or something".

Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. Now it's ruined. I thought I knew him Sad.

SpringBreaker · 21/05/2015 21:56

sitting not hanging

scone rhymes with stone

(lancashire girl here)

WendyTorrance · 21/05/2015 21:58

Scone rhymes with gone.

HTH.