Green Green Grass of Home-William Francis Jones

[ti:Green Green Grass of Home] [ar:William Francis Jones] [al:Billy Goes Big Band] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Green Green Grass of Home - William Francis Jones [00:15.36]Your home town looks the same as I step down from the train [00:23.62] [00:24.51]And there to meet me is my mama and papa [00:32.17] [00:34.20]Down the road I look and there runs Mary [00:39.92] [00:41.29]Hair of gold and lips like cherries [00:44.95]It's good to touch the green green grass of home [00:52.22] [00:54.13]Yes they'll all come to meet me arms reaching smiling sweetly [01:04.46]It's so good to touch the green green grass of home [01:11.66] [01:15.35]Your house is still standing tho' the paint is cracked and dry [01:23.88] [01:24.51]And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on [01:32.32] [01:34.82]Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary [01:39.80] [01:41.09]Hair of gold and lips like cherries [01:45.09]It's good to touch the green green grass of home [01:51.96] [01:57.09]Then I awake and look around me at the four grey walls that surround me [02:04.13] [02:06.42]And I realize yes I was only dreaming [02:11.28] [02:14.78]For there's a guard and there's a sad old padre [02:19.72] [02:21.32]Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak [02:25.09] [02:25.82]Again I'll touch the green the green green grass of home [02:31.93] [02:34.19]Yes they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree [02:44.96]As they lay me neath the green green grass of home