Forty Shades Of Green

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A pretty song. This is from a live recording. I think the original from the album
is in G and changes up to Ab(from youtube so that depends on the recording speed).
Has a nice little lead intro also. I can work that original one out also if anyone wishes.
Johnny Cash a most unique style and sound, the world seems a bit empty without him.
E A
I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea
E F#7 B
From the fishing boats at Dingle to the shores of Donagha-dea
E A
I miss the River Shannon and the folks at Skibbereen
E B7 E
The moorlands and the meadows with their Forty Shades of Green
A B E
But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
A B E B7
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eider-down
E A
Again I want to see and do the things we've done and seen
E B7 E
With the breeze as sweet as shalamar and there's Forty Shades of Green
E A
I wish that I could spend an hour at Dublin's churning surf
E F#7 B
I'd love to watch the farmers drain the bogs and spade the turf
E A
To see again the thatches of the straw the women glean
E B7 E
I'd walk from Cork to Laren to see the Forty Shades of Green
A B E
But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
A B E B7
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eider-down
E A
Again I want to see and do the things we've done and seen
E B7 E
With the breeze as sweet as shalamar and there's Forty Shades of Green

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A pretty song.  This is from a live recording.  I think the original from the album
is in G and changes up to Ab(from youtube so that depends on the recording speed).
Has a nice little lead intro also.  I can work that original one out also if anyone wishes.
Johnny Cash a most unique style and sound, the world seems a bit empty without him.

Forty Shades Of Green Chords by Johnny Cash

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