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Thread #69136   Message #1170285
Posted By: masato sakurai
25-Apr-04 - 05:05 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Green Gravel
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: GREEN GRAVEL
From James Orchard Halliwell, The Nursery Rhymes of England ([first published 1842]; Bodley Head, 1970, p. 241; without tune):
Around the green gravel the grass grows green,
And all the pretty maids are plain to be seen;
Wash them with milk, and clothe them with silk,
And write their names with a pen and ink.