I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea,
From the fishing boats at Dingle to the shores of Donaghadea;
I miss the River Shannon and folks at Skibbereen,
The moorlands and the meadows with their forty shades of green.
But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town,
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eider down;
Again I want to see and do the things we've done and seen,
Where the breeze is sweet as Shalamar
And there's forty shades of green.
I wish 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 Larne to see the forty shades of green.
But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town,
And most of all I miss her lips as soft as eider down;
Again I want to see and do the things we've done and seen,
Where the breeze is sweet as Shalamar
And there's forty shades of green.
####.... Johnny Cash [1932-2003] (audio single: Rebel Johnny Yuma, Columbia, 1961) ....####
The YouTube video above features a variant recorded by John Barr aka "Little" John Cameron from Blantyre, Scotland and Torbay, NL [1943-2002] (Little Johnny Cameron, trk#3, 1974, Audat Records, Oshawa, Ontario, recorded at MUN Studio, St. John's, NL).
The YouTube video below features a cover performance by Jim Coates and Rick and Roger Andrews of Ocean's Away from St. John's and Winterton, Trinity Bay, NL, Mile Stump Productions, recorded at Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
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