Forty shades of green.
by Johnny Cash · harmonica tab for C diatonic harmonica
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend
I /close my eyes and/pic-ture the em-rald of the/
sea from the/fish-ing boats at/Din-gle to the/
shores of Dun-a-/dee I/miss the riv-er/
Shan-non and the/folks at Skip-pa/ree the/
moor lands and the/mea-dows with their/
for-ty shades of/green but/
most of all I/ miss a girl in/Tip-per-ar-y/
town and/most of all I/miss her lips as/
soft as ei-der-/down a-/gain I want to/
see and do- the/things we've done and seen/-where
the/breeze is sweet as/Shal-i-mar and there's/
for-ty shades of/green / to verse 2
I wish that I could/spend an hour at/
Dub-lin's churn-ing/surf I'd/
love to watch the/farm-ers drain the/
bogs and spade the/turf to/see a-gain the/
thatch-ing of the/straw the wo-men/glean I'd/
walk from Cork to/Lairn to see the/