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JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON(1968)

(G)The old hometown looks the(G7)same
As I(C)stepped down from the(G)train
And there to meet me is my mama and my(D)papa(D7)
Down the(G)road I look and(G7) there runs Mary
(C)Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's(G)good to touch the(D7)green green grass of home

The old house is still standing
Though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home

REFRAIN:
(G)Yes they'll all come to(G7)see me
Arms(C)reaching smiling sweetly
It's(G)good to touch the(D7)green green grass of home

Then I awake and look around me
To the cold gray walls that surround me
And then I realize I was only dreaming
For there's a guard and a sad old padre
Arm in arm I walk at daybreak
Again I'll touch the green green grass of home

REFRAIN:
Yes they'' all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath the green green grass of home.

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Johnny Cash - Green, Green Grass of Home
Johnny Cash - Green, Green Grass of Home No video, just the song and the album cover. From the album Sunday Morning Coming Down.

Porter Wagoner - Green Green Grass Of Home
Year: 1964 Album: Green Green Grass of Home (Also released on RCA Country Legends) Porter Wagoner at his best! Bobby Bare sang this too in 1965 and later, in 1966, Tom Jones covered it. After that its covered by many others like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Lyric: The old hometown looks the same as I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green grass of home Yes they'll all come to meet me arms areached smiling sweetly It's so good to touch the green green grass of home The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green grass of home Then I awake and look around me at these four grey walls that surround me And I realize that I was only dreaming For there's a guard and there's that sad old padre arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak And again I'll touch the green green grass of home They'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree As they lay me neath the green green grass of home..

Johnny Cash Green Green Grass Of Home
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash-Green Green Grass of Home Cover
1themann1 asked me to do this song for him. He said he had lived in the same house since he was 3 and the city was going to put a gas station in the place of it. He sold it and he had to move. He also said he had done a little time in prison, so this song would really remind him of where he's been. He said this would mean a lot to him. So I def. wanted to give it a try.

Green Green Grass of Home
Stereo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kR8D7_aSZE&fmt=18 Buck Norris sings Green Green Grass of Home by Porter Waggoner. "Green Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., is a country song originally made popular by Porter Wagoner in 1964 and Bobby Bare in 1965. Later by Tom Jones in 1966 when it reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 1 December staying there for a total of seven weeks.[1] (It had been recorded earlier that year by Jerry Lee Lewis, without any greater success). Since then it has been a popular cover song, recorded, for example, by Elvis Presley in 1975, by Johnny Cash on his 1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album, Kenny Rogers on his self-titled album, Kenny Rogers, in 1977, and also by Stompin' Tom Connors on his album Stompin' Tom Connors, 'LIVE' at the Horseshoe in 1971. Joan Baez included the song on her 1969 album David's Album. With lyrics in Swedish by Stikkan Anderson as "En sång en gång för längese'n", both Hootenanny Singers and Jan Malmsjö had each 1967 Svensktoppen hit with the song, for six respectively 33 weeks. This language version was also recorded by Lotta Engberg in 1997. The song was also recorded with lyrics in Serbian by Riblja Čorba as "Zelena trava doma mog", in 1993. The song is about a man who has been away from home for a while. He tells that he is returning to his small home town in the country. When he steps down from the train, he touches the green grass. His parents and "sweet Mary" (who obviously is an old Sweetheart) are there to welcome him. He observes tokens of his childhood, including "the old oak tree that [I] used to play on". However, then comes a spoken section when he awakens in prison: "Then I awake and look around me, at four grey walls that surround me. And I realize that I was only dreaming." The man is, in reality, awaiting his execution, and he will only return home when he is dead and buried: "Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree, as they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home." Norwegian singer Tor Endresen has released a version in which he misses the point of "a Guard and There`s a Sad Old Padre", singing "a Garden and a Sad Old Partridge"!