And the Green Grass Grew All Around

"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.

Sheet music cover featuring Von Tilzer, 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]

References

1. "Green Grass Grew All Around, The". FolkSongIndex.com. 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
2. 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
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