Chords for Forty Shades of Green - Johnny Cash, 1988
Tempo:
78.95 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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You got it there then.
and when you hear the lyrics, you know that I had a road map of Ireland in my lap because I was looking at the names of [E] the towns
a great [Gb] song, how great to hear these, the name of some of these towns in a song.
with a melody and [N] I put it down, I called it Forty Shades of Green and I did a concert recently and an old man came up to me backstage
said no, I wrote that and he said no, no, no, I've heard that for years
first hear it and he said 1959, I said that's when I wrote it.
remember hearing it too in the Seapoint Ballroom [G] in Galway many, many [Am] years ago.
[C] [D] [G] Let me find the key gate.
and when you hear the lyrics, you know that I had a road map of Ireland in my lap because I was looking at the names of [E] the towns
a great [Gb] song, how great to hear these, the name of some of these towns in a song.
with a melody and [N] I put it down, I called it Forty Shades of Green and I did a concert recently and an old man came up to me backstage
said no, I wrote that and he said no, no, no, I've heard that for years
first hear it and he said 1959, I said that's when I wrote it.
remember hearing it too in the Seapoint Ballroom [G] in Galway many, many [Am] years ago.
[C] [D] [G] Let me find the key gate.
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You got it there then.
I will sing you a little bit, it's coming, I'll sing you a little of a song I wrote in 1959
and when you hear the lyrics, you know that I had a road map of Ireland in my lap because I was looking at the names of [E] the towns
and rhyming all of the towns and then [G] [Bb] I got to thinking what a great [Gb] song, how great to hear these, the name of some of these towns in a song.
So I [E] finally came up with a melody and [N] I put it down, I called it Forty Shades of Green and I did a concert recently and an old man came up to me backstage
and said that Forty Shades of Green is a fine old Irish melody and I said no, I wrote that and he said no, no, no, I've heard that for years
and I said well when did you first hear it and he said 1959, I said that's when I wrote it.
Great, I remember hearing it too in the Seapoint Ballroom [G] in Galway many, many [Am] years ago. _
[C] _ _ _ [D] [G] Let me find the key gate.
_ [F] _
_ [A] _ I close my eyes and picture, [G] that's too high.
I [Gm] close my eyes and [G] picture the emerald [C] of the sea
From the fishing boats that dingle [A] to the shores of [D] Dunedin
[G] I miss the river Shannon and [C] the folks at Skipperine
The moorlands [G] and the meadows with [D] their forty [G] shades of green _
_ [C] But most of all [D] I miss a [G] girl in Tipperary town
[C] And most of all [D] I miss her lips as soft as I'd her down
Again I want to [G] see and do [C] the things we've done and seen
Where the breeze and [G] sweet ash shall amour [D] and there's forty shades [G] of green
Good [N] boy.
_ _ [Abm] _ _ Thank you. _
_ _ _ [N] _ Thank you very much. _
I will sing you a little bit, it's coming, I'll sing you a little of a song I wrote in 1959
and when you hear the lyrics, you know that I had a road map of Ireland in my lap because I was looking at the names of [E] the towns
and rhyming all of the towns and then [G] [Bb] I got to thinking what a great [Gb] song, how great to hear these, the name of some of these towns in a song.
So I [E] finally came up with a melody and [N] I put it down, I called it Forty Shades of Green and I did a concert recently and an old man came up to me backstage
and said that Forty Shades of Green is a fine old Irish melody and I said no, I wrote that and he said no, no, no, I've heard that for years
and I said well when did you first hear it and he said 1959, I said that's when I wrote it.
Great, I remember hearing it too in the Seapoint Ballroom [G] in Galway many, many [Am] years ago. _
[C] _ _ _ [D] [G] Let me find the key gate.
_ [F] _
_ [A] _ I close my eyes and picture, [G] that's too high.
I [Gm] close my eyes and [G] picture the emerald [C] of the sea
From the fishing boats that dingle [A] to the shores of [D] Dunedin
[G] I miss the river Shannon and [C] the folks at Skipperine
The moorlands [G] and the meadows with [D] their forty [G] shades of green _
_ [C] But most of all [D] I miss a [G] girl in Tipperary town
[C] And most of all [D] I miss her lips as soft as I'd her down
Again I want to [G] see and do [C] the things we've done and seen
Where the breeze and [G] sweet ash shall amour [D] and there's forty shades [G] of green
Good [N] boy.
_ _ [Abm] _ _ Thank you. _
_ _ _ [N] _ Thank you very much. _