Ten Green Bottles is a song for children that is popular in the United Kingdom. In essence the song is a single verse repeated, each time with one bottle fewer:
There are variants with standing or hanging instead of sitting. Other variants include "Ten German Bombers" and the American "99 Bottles of Beer".
There is also a variation in French called Les Moutons (The Sheep) sung by Jacques Brel in the album Les flamandes (1961).
Actors Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving sing a parody of "Ten Green Bottles" called "Ten Fat Trannies" in the 1993 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
In Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole, Adrian's class starts singing "Ten Green Bottles" on the bus during a school trip. They then start singing "Ten Green Snotrags" and the bus driver yells at them.
In the episode "Summer" of the television show The Vicar of Dibley, Rev. Geraldine and the other members of the church council chain themselves to the church in protest. In the middle of the night, to combat boredom, Frank Pickle (the most dry and boring council member) starts singing, "One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. And if one green bottle, should accidentally fall, there'll be ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine green bottles, hanging on the wall!" By this time, everyone has joined in.
In Romanian there is a version: "Ten elephants were swinging on a spider web..." (Zece elefanti se leganau pe o panza de paianjen...). In Spanish and also in Italian, a similar version exists, starting with one elephant, who sees that it does not fall, so it calls a comrade (Diez elefantes se balanceaban...)(Un elefante si dondolava...)