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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 21:10:41 +1000
From: Frank Moroney <moroney1@lampinternet.net.au>
Subject: Forty Shades Of Green
Forty Shades Of Green
Johnny Cash
Key = G > Ab (Instruments on recording tuned to 430)
Intro: C - G - (Am7 - D7) - G - G
G C I Close My Eyes And Picture The Emerald Of The Sea
G A7 D7
From The Fishing Boats At Dingle To The Shores Of Dun-a-dee
G C
I Miss The River Shannon And The Folks At Skip-a-ree
G (Am7 - D7) G The Moorlands And The Meadows With Their Forty Shades Of Green
C D7 G But Most Of All I Miss A Girl In Tipperary Town
C D7 G D7
And Most Of All I Miss Her Lips As Soft As Eider Down
G C
A-gain I Want To See And Do The Things We've Done And Seen
G (Am7 - D7) G
Where The Breeze Is Sweet As Shalimar And There's Forty Shades Of Green
Inst: C - G - (Am7 - D7) - Ab - Ab
Ab Db
I Wish That I Could Spend An Hour At Dublin's Churning Surf
Ab Bb7 Eb7
I'd Love To Watch The Farmers Drain The Bogs And Spade The Turf
Ab Db
To See Again The Thatching Of The Straw The Women Glean
Ab (Bbm7 - Eb7) Ab
I'd Walk From Cork To Lairn To See The Forty Shades Of Green
Db Eb7 Ab
But Most Of All I Miss A Girl In Tipperary Town
Db Eb7 Ab Eb7
And Most Of All I Miss Her Lips As Soft As Eider Down
Ab Db
A-gain I Want To See And Do The Things We've Done And Seen
Ab (Bbm7 - Eb7) Ab
Where The Breeze Is Sweet As Shalimar And There's Forty Shades Of Green
Slower>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
**Slim Whitman also recorded a version of this song (Key = D > Eb)