99 Bottles of Beer

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.

[3][failed verification] The song's lyrics are as follows, beginning with n=99:[4][5] (n) bottles of beer on the wall.

The American comedian Andy Kaufman used this for comedic effect early in his career when he actually sang all 100 verses.

[7] Atticus, a band from Knoxville, Tennessee, recorded a thirteen and a half minute live version of the song in its entirety at the Glasgow Cathouse in Scotland.

Rich Stewart aka Homebrew Stew listed it as the number one drinking song out of 86 in an article for Modern Drunkard Magazine the following year.

[8] Donald Byrd has collected dozens of variants inspired by mathematical concepts and written by himself and others.

Among his variants are: Other versions in Byrd's collection involve concepts including geometric progressions, differentials, Euler's identity, complex numbers, summation notation, the Cantor set, the Fibonacci sequence, and the continuum hypothesis, among others.