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Thread #69136 Message #3574288
Posted By: GUEST,Guest
09-Nov-13 - 09:05 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Green Gravel
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Green Gravel
In Tunbridge Wells, Kent in the early 1960s we sang Green gravels as a skipping game. Two girls would turn a long skipping rope while one girl jumped, and the other girls would stand round and all sing the song. I can't remember all of it, but I think it started 'Green gravels, green gravels, your sweetheart is dead. He sent you a letter....' I can't remember the next bit, but it ended 'turn your back you saucy cat and say no more to me, I know a boy, he's double-jointed, he kissed you and made you disappointed, how many kisses did you give him?' Then the rope was turned much faster, with kisses counted out loud till the skipper tripped up. But I also seem to remember the words 'I'll tell your mother for kissing [boy's name] down in the cellar, How many kisses did you give him?' So maybe I'm confusing two different games.