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Re: boys from the county hell
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Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:46 pmby nboldock
Stom138 wrote:not quite sure if this is the right place to put it or not, and i've sorta looked through the forums for the answer to this question, but i haven't found it just yet
the "five green bottles" that is described in the lyrics, does anyone know what KIND of bottles those are? i know they're liquor bottles, but what sort of liquor?
thanks!
It's probably fair to assume they are beer bottles, though to be honest I doubt there is a "correct" answer to this one.
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Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:50 pmby Stom138
thanks, trying to incorporate it into a tattoo, so that helps a bit
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Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:05 pmby DCHISHOLM
I remember reading that it was just playing with words from the Nursery rhyme "10 green bottles sitting on a wall.....and if one green bottle should accidently fall there would be nine" etc etc.Mr Chevron might be able to give a better answer.
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Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:14 pmby John C
Dropofpoison wrote:I always assumed it to be beer
I always thought of it as wine. More specifically I always thought of them as bottles of red wine. For no reason at all - it's just what came into my head at the time.
They can probably be whatever you want them to be!
Posted:
Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:15 pmby nboldock
John C wrote:They can probably be whatever you want them to be!
Exactly. That's what
I meant. But you said it better!
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Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:21 pmby Stom138
well thanks on all that, the tattoo should be great with a smokey horse running out of an empty bottle of wine, haha
4 in the afternoon, and drunk as fuck, just like everyone else should be..
cheers
Re: Boys From County Hell Lyrics... Anybody?
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Tue Jul 03, 2012 5:59 amby BrotherRay
I maybe just a stupid yankee, but when I heard the "five green bottles" lyric, I always imagined absinth.
Re: Boys From County Hell Lyrics... Anybody?
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Tue Jul 03, 2012 6:02 amby BrotherRay
On another level, I must ask what "County Hell" refers to? I kind of assumed it referred to County Down, but that might be my own wishful thinking, as my ancestors hail from that county.
Re: Boys From County Hell Lyrics... Anybody?
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Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:46 amby Hennybhoy
County Hell = London
I think....
Re: Boys From County Hell Lyrics... Anybody?
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Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:06 amby in_the_morning
Hennybhoy wrote:County Hell = London
I think....
yes, you're right...gotta think about what Shane said about London...for instance, here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AooP0WyOCHw