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Many songs have been written that continue until the singer decides (or is forced) to stop. Most of these are traditional, and in modern times considered children's songs. Nonetheless many modern popular songs, in their recorded version, end with a refrain that is repeated ad nauseum until faded away, and in a sense don't strictly end.

The songs in the following list are unbounded. Certain other classes of songs are unboundedly bounded - for example, N Green Bottles can be as long as the singer wishes given that a sufficiently large number is chosen for N. Once the number is chosen, however, the song will end after a fixed period.

List of songs

Repeating songs

"Bingo"
"Brother for Sale" by the Olsen Twins
"Charlie had a Budgie"
"Down by the Bay" by Raffi
"Here We Go"
"Ivan's in the Garden"
"Michael Finnigan"
"Frog Went A-Courting"
"I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"
"I Know A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves"
"The Song That Never Ends"
"There's a Hole in My Bucket"
"John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"
"Found a Peanut"
"Rabbit Ain't Got No Tail At All"
"We're Going to Bonnie Doon"
"We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do"
"The Diarrhea Song"
"Stay on the Happy Side"
"Yon yonson"
"Row, Row, Row the Boat"
"The Poem That never Ends"
"Lloyd George knew my father" (tune: Onward Christian Soldiers)
"She died she did, she died of a broken rib"
"Aleph-null Bottles of Beer on the Wall" (to the tune of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall")
"Hava Nigela"

Decrementing songs

These are songs that are strictly speaking bounded, but the bound can be set arbitrarily high.

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+Many songs have been written that continue until the singer decides (or is forced) to stop.  Most of these are traditional, and in modern times considered children's songs.  Nonetheless many modern popular songs, in their recorded version, end with a refrain that is repeated ad nauseum until faded away, and in a sense don't strictly end.
-There exists a song that has been sung by washerwomen for decades, if not longer, it is not known to what extent this song changes.
+The songs in the following list are unbounded. Certain other classes of songs are unboundedly bounded - for example, ''[[Ten green bottles|N Green Bottles]]'' can be as long as the singer wishes given that a sufficiently large number is chosen for ''N''. Once the number is chosen, however, the song will end after a fixed period.
-==List of songs==
+==List of songs==
 ===Repeating songs===
-* Bingo
+*"Bingo"
+*"[[Brother for Sale]]" by the [[Olsen Twins]]
-* Michael Finnigan
+*"Charlie had a Budgie"
-* Song that will get on your Nerves
+*"[[Down by the Bay]]" by Raffi
+*"Here We Go"
+*"Ivan's in the Garden"
+*"[[Michael Finnigan]]"
+*"[[Frog Went A-Courting]]"
+*"[[I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am]]"
+*"[[I Know A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves]]"
+*"[[The Song That Never Ends]]"
+*"[[There's a Hole in My Bucket]]"
+*"[[John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt]]"
+*"[[Found a Peanut]]"
+*"Rabbit Ain't Got No Tail At All"
+*"We're Going to Bonnie Doon"
+*"We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do"
+*"[[The Diarrhea Song]]"
+*"[[Stay on the Happy Side]]"
+*"[[Yon yonson]]"
+*"Row, Row, Row the Boat"
+*"[[The Poem That never Ends]]"
+*"Lloyd George knew my father" (tune: ''[[Onward Christian Soldiers]]'')
+*"She died she did, she died of a broken rib"
+*"Aleph-null Bottles of Beer on the Wall" (to the tune of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall")
+*"Hava Nigela"
+===Decrementing songs===
+These are songs that are strictly speaking bounded, but the bound can be set arbitrarily high.
+*"[[Ten Green Bottles|10 Green Bottles]]"
+*"[[99 Bottles of Beer]]"
+*"[[Coin-Operated Boy]]" - [[The Dresden Dolls]]
+==See also==
-===Non repeating predictable songs===
+*[[Perpetuum mobile]]
-* One Man went to Mow
+*[[Donald Knuth]], "[[The Complexity of Songs]]"
+*[[Cumulative song]]
+[[Category:Lists of songs|Unboundedly long songs, list of]]
-===Non repeating unpredictable songs===
+[[Category:Folk songs]]
-* Song of the [[Blue Whale]]s
-* Music of the spheres