When I was a little thing, on the schoolyard at recess we girls would walk around to the left in a ring, singing. The girl who was "It" was the name-chooser, a kind of leader, but she walked in the ring as well.

Green gravels, green gravels,
The earth is so green-
All over creation
The same to be seen.
O Lucy, O Lucy
Your truelover's dead-
He wrote you a letter
To turn back your head.

The ring pauses while Lucy turns herself around, facing outward, and joins hands again with the rest. This action is repeated again, with another girl being named, and she turns facing outside. When all names have been used and all are facing outward, the circle with all facing outward runs to the right, faster and faster with much laughing and shouting, until the ring breaks and they all fall in a heap. Just good fun. Nothing solved, but I must say that this falling down at the end usually made us think of another game, and we'd get up and play, "Roman Soldiers"

Have you any bread and wine for we are the Romans?
Have you any bread and wine for we are the Roman Soldiers?

Yes we have some bread and wine for we are the English!
Yes we have some bread and wine for we are the English Soldiers.

And so on, losing an arm, a leg, both arms & legs as verses go by, at last all lying dead in a heap. Nothing solved. Must be a lesson in there somewhere.....