Song Name: | Forty shades of green. | By: | Johnny Cash |
Posted By: | harmusman | Difficulty: | Beginner |
Key: | Any | Genre: | Irish |
Harp Type: | Diatonic | ||
Created: | 2009-11-08 13:11:12 | Modified: | 2010-07-07 08:07:08 |
Song: | This is credited to Johnny Cash (words and music)but could this be a traditional Irish number? does anyone know? 6 6 5 5 -4 5 5 7 7 -6 -6 6 I /close my eyes and/pic-ture the em-rald of the/ -6 7 7 7 7 -7 7 -6 6 6 6 sea from the/fish-ing boats at/Din-gle to the/ -6 -4 -4 5 -4 6 6 5 5 -4 shores of Dun-a-/dee I/miss the riv-er/ 5 5 7 7 7 -6 -6 6 -6 7 Shan-non and the/folks at Skip-pa/ree the/ 7 7 -7 7 -6 6 5 5 moor lands and the/mea-dows with their/ -5 -5 5 -4 4 7 for-ty shades of/green but/ 7 7 7 7 -7 -7 -6 6 6 7 6 -5 most of all I/ miss a girl in/Tip-per-ar-y/ 5 7 7 7 7 7 -7 -7 -6 6 town and/most of all I/miss her lips as/ 6 7 6 5 -4 6 6 5 5 -4 soft as ei-der-/down a-/gain I want to/ 5 -4 5~~ 7 7 -5 -6 6 -6~~ 7 see and do- the/things we've done and seen/-where 7 7 7 -7 7 -6 -6 6 5 -5 the/breeze is sweet as/Shal-i-mar and there's/ -5 -5 5 -4 4 for-ty shades of/green / to verse 2 v2. 7 6 5 5 -4 5 5 5 7 I wish that I could/spend an hour at/ 7 -6 -6 6 -6 7 Dub-lin's churn-ing/surf I'd/ 7 7 -7 7 -6 6 6 6 love to watch the/farm-ers drain the/ -6 -4 -4 5 -4 6 6 5 5 -4 bogs and spade the/turf to/see a-gain the/ 5 5 7 7 7 -6 -6 6 -6 7 thatch-ing of the/straw the wo-men/glean I'd/ 7 7 -7 7 -6 6 5 5 walk from Cork to/Lairn to see the/ -5 -5 5 -4 4 (To "but/most of all I" etc) for-ty shades of/green / Yours Harmusman. |