One Bottle of Pop

DESCRIPTION: "One bottle (of) pop (or beer), Two bottles (of) pop, Three bottles (of) pop...." "Don't throw your junk (dust) in my back yard (dustbin)... my back yard's full." "Fish and chips and vinegar...." Composite children's round.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1988
KEYWORDS: nonballad food humorous campsong
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, pp. 232-233, "One Bottle Pop" (1 text, 1 tune)
LibraryThingCampSongsThread, post 35, "(One bottle of beer)" (1 text, from user John5918, posted August 29, 2021)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 111, 123-124, 135, 163, 256, 286, 442, "Fish and Chips"/"One bottle of pop" (notes only)
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ALTERNATE TITLES:
Fish and Chips
Don't Throw Your Dust
Don't Throw Your Junk
NOTES [130 words]: Obviously quite recent (at least with the current words), but it seems to qualify as a children's folksong. Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 111, claims to have found forty different versions.
I've filed this under the (approximate) title in Pankake/Pankake, because that's in print, but I very strongly doubt that this is the original (even though Sandy and Caroline Paton also sang it); it's a rewrite of the British original which John5918 preserved and which is in the Supplemental Tradition.
As John5918 notes, the three parts ("One bottle of beer..."; "Don't throw your junk in our dustbin"; "Fish and chips and vinegar") are sung to three different tunes. "Don't throw your junk" is probably the most familiar; it's "Ach, Du Lieber Augustine"/"Did You Ever See a Lassie?" - RBW
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