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Green Gravel

English folk song

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estimated reading 3
complete sections 5.46
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78
Native text
567 characters
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77%
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Overview

Green Gravel is an English singing game and folk song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1368.

Lyrics and performance

The version collected in Manchester in 1835: The players joined hands and walk around in a ring. At the end of the text, one person is named and then stays in the ring but faces outwards; the song begins again and a different person is named at the end, then taking their place in the centre. Lucy Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland recorded in their 1893 book English County Songs that Green Gravel was a dramatic representation of mourning.

See also

* List of nursery rhymes

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