COWPIE Country Music Lyrics
Johnny Cash
Forty Shades of Green
# FORTY SHADES OF GREEN Words & music by Johnny Cash F ---- C ---- Dm7 -- G7 --- 113321 032010 x00211 320001 C7 --- F- --- D ---- G ---- 032310 xx0101 x00212 320003 Intro : F///C///Dm7/G7/C///C/// I [C]close my eyes and picture [C7]The [F]em'rald of the sea >From the [F]fishing [F-]boats [F]at [C]Dingle To the [D7]shores of Duna[G7]dee I [C]miss the river Shannon [C7]And the [F]folks at Skipparee The[F] moorlands [F-]and [F]the [C]midlands With their [Dm7]forty [G7]shades of [C]green [C7] But [F]most of all I [G]miss a [G7]girl In [C]Tippera[G7]ry [C]Town [C7] And [F]most of all I [G]miss her [G7]lips As [C]soft as eider[G7]down A[C]gain I want to see and do [C7] The [F]things we've done and seen Where the breeze is sweet as [C]Shalimar And there's [Dm7]forty [G7]shades of [C]green I wish that I could spend an hour At Dublin's churning surf I'd love to watch the farmers Drain the bogs and spade the turf To see again the thatching Of the straw the women glean I'd walk from Cork to Lian To see the forty shades of green But most of all I miss a girl...
