"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 an 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. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled The Blowtop. Sheet music arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords, and Singer Pro in … Today it is a popular classic children's song, and a good example of a cumulative song. This song teaches children sequencing through the repetition of a series of events. I haven't picked it up for years, but thought it might be a good bedtime book to read to my son, with all the rhythm and rhyming. The illustrations to this story are cartoon-like, which I believes adds a fun and funny twist to these folk poems. Some sources give the author as William Jerome and melody by Harry Von Tilzer in 1912. This would also be a good book to recommended to your student's parents (for reading at home). It’s made up of both an echo and a simple 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 an 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. History & Criticism Share