Johnny Cash – Forty Shades Of Green (Guitar)

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 I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea, 

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      From the fishing boats at Dingle, 

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      To the shores of Donagha -dea; 

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      I miss the River Shannon, 

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      And the folks at Skibbereen, 

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      The moorlands and the meadows 

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      With their forty shades of green. 

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       But most of all I miss a girl in 

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       Tipperary town. 

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       And most of all I miss her lips, 

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       As soft as eider-down; 

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       Again I want to see and do 

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       The things we've done and seen, 

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       With the breeze as sweet as shalamar, 

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        And there's forty shades of green. 

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      At Dublin's churning surf, 

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      I'd love to watch the farmers drain  

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     The bogs and spade the turf; 

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     To see again the thatches  

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     Of the straw the women glean; 

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     I'd walk from Cork to Larne to see 

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     The forty shades of green.