"And the Green Grass Grew All Around", also known as "The Green Grass Grew All Around" or "And the Green Grass Grows All Around", is a traditional Appalachian folk song that was first noted in 1877 in Miss M. H. Mason's book Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, but is likely to be much older.[1] Some sources give the author as William Jerome[2] and the melody by Harry Von Tilzer[3] in 1912.
As a popular classic children's song today, it is an example of a cumulative song.
It is similar to the Irish folk song The Rattlin' Bog and versions exist in many other cultures and under many titles.[1] A version of the song features in the Midsomer Murders episode "Small Mercies".[4]
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- ^ a b "Green Grass Grew All Around, The". FolkSongIndex.com. 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
- ^ Axford, Elizabeth C. (2004). Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians at Google Books Scarecrow Press. page 20. ISBN 0-8108-5027-3
- ^ Egan, Bill (2004) Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen at Google Books. Scarecrow Press. page 16. ISBN 0-8108-5007-9
"The Green Grass Grows All Around", Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five on The Internet Archive