Forty Shades Of Green - Johnny Cash [Intro] [C] [G] [D7] [G] Verse 1: [G] I close my eyes and picture the [C]emerald of the sea, From the [G]fishing boats at Dingle, To the [A7]shores of Donagha [D]-dea; I [G]miss the River Shannon, And the [C]folks at Skibbereen, The [G]moorlands and the meadows With their [D]forty shades of [G]green. |[Chorus] |But [C]most of all I miss a girl in |[G]Tipperary town. |And [C]most of all I miss her [G]lips, |As [A7]soft as eider-[D]down; |[G]Again I want to see and do |The [C]things we've done and seen, |With the [G]breeze as sweet as shalamar, |And there's [D]forty shades of [G]green. Verse 2: I wish that I could spend an hour At [C]Dublin's churning surf, I'd [G]love to watch the farmers drain The [A7]bogs and spade the [D]turf; To [G]see again the thatches Of the [C]straw the women glean; I'd [G]walk from Cork to Larne to see The [D]forty shades of [G]green. |[Chorus] |But [C]most of all I miss a girl in |[G]Tipperary town. |And [C]most of all I miss her [G]lips, |As [A7]soft as eider-[D]down; |[G]Again I want to see and do |The [C]things we've done and seen, |With the [G]breeze as sweet as shalamar, |And there's [D]forty shades of [G]green. [Outro] With the [G]breeze as sweet as shalamar, And there's [D]forty shades of [G]green.