Forty Shades of Green-Dermot O'Brien

[ti:Forty Shades of Green] [ar:Dermot O'Brien] [al:Evergreen - Irish American Favourites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Forty Shades of Green - Dermot O'Brien [00:11.04]I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea [00:18.45] [00:19.50]From the fishing boats at dingle [00:23.09] [00:23.82]To the shores of donaghadee [00:26.98] [00:28.66]I miss the river shannon [00:31.71] [00:32.34]And the folks at skibbereen [00:35.79] [00:36.79]The moorlands and the meadows [00:40.98]With their forty shades of green [00:44.13] [00:45.91]But most of all I miss a girl [00:48.88] [00:50.04]In tipperary town [00:52.60] [00:53.86]And most of all I miss her lips [00:57.48] [00:58.08]As soft as eiderdown [01:00.65] [01:03.22]Again I want to see and do the things [01:07.59] [01:08.17]We've done and seen [01:09.59] [01:10.90]Where the breeze is sweet as shalimar [01:14.35] [01:15.25]And there's forty shades of green [01:18.63] [01:43.21]I wish that I could spend an hour [01:46.14] [01:47.30]At dublin's churning surf [01:50.54] [01:51.60]I'd love to watch the farmers drain [01:56.16]The bogs and spade the turf [01:59.12] [02:00.76]To see again the thatching of [02:04.39]The straw the women glean [02:07.30] [02:08.72]I'd walk from cork to larne [02:12.25]To see the forty shades of green [02:16.27] [02:17.98]But most of all I miss a girl in tipperary town [02:24.72] [02:26.04]And most of all I miss her lips [02:29.60] [02:30.11]As soft as eiderdown [02:33.84] [02:35.16]Again I want to see and do the things [02:40.34]We've done and seen [02:41.66] [02:43.01]Where the breeze is sweet as shalimar [02:46.30] [02:47.26]And there's forty shades of green