| Green Gravel | |
| Genre: | Singing game |
| Published: | 1835 |
Green Gravel is an English singing game and folk song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1368.
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.[1] Lucy Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland recorded in their 1893 book English County Songs that Green Gravel was a dramatic representation of mourning.[2]