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[[File:Green Grass.png|thumb|Sheet music cover featuring Von Tilzer, 1912]]
{{short description|American folk song}}
"'''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 music|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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.stephengriffith.com/folksongindex/the-green-grass-grew-all-around-2/|title=Green Grass Grew All Around, The|date=2013-06-13|work=FolkSongIndex.com|access-date=2018-03-19|language=en-US}}</ref> Some sources give the author as [[William Jerome]]<ref name="axford">Axford, Elizabeth C. (2004). {{Google books|mNv9kAuTDTIC|Song Sheets to Software: A Guide to Print Music, Software, and Web Sites for Musicians}} Scarecrow Press. page 20. {{ISBN|0-8108-5027-3}}</ref> and the melody by [[Harry Von Tilzer]]<ref name="Egan">Egan, Bill (2004) {{Google books|n3IRgH2wLcwC|Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen}}. Scarecrow Press. page 16. {{ISBN|0-8108-5007-9}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" /> A version of the song features in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Small Mercies".[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447350/characters/nm1469236 <nowiki>[4]</nowiki>]
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[[Category:American children's songs]]
[[Category:Songs about plants]]
[[Category:Cumulative songs]]
[[Category:1877 songs]]
[[Category:Songs with music by Harry Von Tilzer]]
[[Category:Songs with lyrics by William Jerome]]
[https://archive.org/details/78_the-green-grass-grows-all-around_louis-jordan-and-his-tympany-five-stovepipe-johnso_gbia0049708a "The Green Grass Grows All Around", Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five on The Internet Archive]