<P> Another alternate line reads: </P> <P> If that one bottle should happen to fall, what a waste of alcohol! </P> <P> The boring and time - consuming nature of the "99 Bottles of Beer" song means that probably only a minority of renditions are done to the final verse . The American comedian Andy Kaufman exploited this fact in the routine early in his career when he would actually sing all 100 verses . </P> <P> Donald Byrd has collected dozens of variants inspired by mathematical concepts and written by himself and others . (A subset of his collection has been published .) Byrd argues that the collection has pedagogic as well as amusement value . Among his variants are: </P>

How long does it take to sing 100 bottles of beer on the wall