Ten green bottles

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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?

Hanging. Scone rhymes with gone. Butter then jam then cream.

I agree with Neffi

When I was little we sang 'ten German bombers'.

Ten German bombers flying in the sky
Ten German bombers flying in the sky
And if the RAF from [town] came and shot one down
There'd be nine German bombers flying in the sky

They're hanging on the wall.

No it doesn't make sense but if we start using "must make sense" as the criteria for nursery rhymes and traditional stories/songs then most of them would be done for.

*You hang pictures on a wall.

It's hanging. And gone.*

With a nail and a hook. Do the bottles have hooks?

(Scone the food rhymes with gone; Scone the place rhymes with cone)

The bottle have a piece of string around their necks that they are hanging by.

I have asked Twitter. Twitter disagrees with me so I am ignoring it.

And if we are saying that nursery rhymes have to make sense then we really are onto a hiding to nothing. Lets start with Pop Goes the Weasel and move on to Sing a Song of Sixpence shall we?

Wikipedia reckons it's hanging.

Cabin Pressure/Birling Day aficionados would also go along with that.

Sitting.

Hanging

Scone rhymes with gone

Butter then jam then cream

neffi knows all about it

Hanging
Cream then jam
Rhymes with gone

It's standing.

10 green bottles standing, not sitting as they have no joints.
Not hanging because where and why would they be?

*You hang pictures on a wall.

It's hanging. And gone.*

With a nail and a hook. Do the bottles have hooks?
?

Yes.

With a nail and a hook. Do the bottles have hooks?

Do pictures? No, you use picture wire.

Oh, and my dd got a distinction for singing it in one of her first singing exams. Definitely standing

"With a nail and a hook. Do the bottles have hooks?

Do pictures? No, you use picture wire."

My pictures have hooks

But ok so these bottles have wire round their necks? How are they dropping falling?

They accidentally fall.

Of this I am certain.

Why are they falling off if they are sitting?

Far more likely for the string to slip or break than just random falling over.

Gust of wind. Obv

Hanging.

Gone.

Jam then cream.

Surrey girl here.

I think the important question is whether they accidently fell before or after I had emptied them?

The 10 sticks of dynamite had to be hanging from the school of course.

Hanging.

Or 'Angin' to be precise.

It's a metaphor innit.

The 10 sticks of dynamite had to be hanging from the school of course.

And if one stick of dynamite should accidentally fall there'd be no sticks of dynamite and no fucking school?

Maybe olden days bottles were more flask like and didn't actually have flat bottoms? Hence them needing to be tied to the wall for storage?

I've just been Googling this but stopped when I found what looks to be a Ventian Glass dildo