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Artist: Katherine Jenkins
Album: Serenade
Title: Green Green Grass Of Home lyrics
Lyrics to Green Green Grass Of Home :
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there comes Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all be there to meet me
Arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's 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 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
Yes they'll all come to meet me
Arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there comes 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
In the shade of the old oak tree
As they lay me ‘neath the green green grass of home
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
[ Green Green Grass Of Home Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
Green Green Grass of Home
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Green Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., is a country song originally made popular by Porter Wagoner in 1964 and Bobby Bare in 1965.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 great success). The Tom Jones record reached #11 pop, #12 easy listening on the Billboard US charts.
Since then it has been a popular cover song, recorded, for example, by Johnny Cash on his 1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album, by Joan Baez on her 1969 album David's Album, by Stompin' Tom Connors on his album Stompin' Tom Connors, 'LIVE' at the Horseshoe in 1971, by Elvis Presley in 1975, and also by Kenny Rogers on his self-titled album, Kenny Rogers, in 1977.
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. With lyrics in Portuguese by Geraldo Figueiredo as "Os Verdes Campos da Minha Terra", it was recorded in Brazil by Agnaldo Timóteo (1967), Belmonte and Amaraí (1968), Roberto Leal, and others. The song was also recorded with lyrics in Serbian by Riblja Čorba as "Zelena trava doma mog", in 1993.
Katherine Jenkins released the song as a single on 20 November 2006, and it was included on her Serenade album during the same year. A live version was included on the single, which was recorded at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, just prior to the Australia versus Wales Rugby match on 4 November 2006.
Overview
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" are there to welcome him. He observes tokens of his childhood, including "the old oak tree that [I] used to play on".
Then comes a spoken section where the singer 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 changes "a guard and there`s a sad old padre", to "a garden and a sad old partridge".
References
1. UK No. 1 Hit for Tom Jones on 1 December 1966 (seven weeks at no. one)
Album: Serenade
Title: Green Green Grass Of Home lyrics
Lyrics to Green Green Grass Of Home :
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there comes Mary
Hair of gold and lips like cherries
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
Yes they'll all be there to meet me
Arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's 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 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
Yes they'll all come to meet me
Arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
The old home town looks the same
As I step down from the train
and there to meet me is my Mama and Papa
Down the road I look and there comes 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
In the shade of the old oak tree
As they lay me ‘neath the green green grass of home
It's good to touch the green green grass of home
[ Green Green Grass Of Home Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]
Green Green Grass of Home
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"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 great success). The Tom Jones record reached #11 pop, #12 easy listening on the Billboard US charts.
Since then it has been a popular cover song, recorded, for example, by Johnny Cash on his 1968 Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison album, by Joan Baez on her 1969 album David's Album, by Stompin' Tom Connors on his album Stompin' Tom Connors, 'LIVE' at the Horseshoe in 1971, by Elvis Presley in 1975, and also by Kenny Rogers on his self-titled album, Kenny Rogers, in 1977.
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. With lyrics in Portuguese by Geraldo Figueiredo as "Os Verdes Campos da Minha Terra", it was recorded in Brazil by Agnaldo Timóteo (1967), Belmonte and Amaraí (1968), Roberto Leal, and others. The song was also recorded with lyrics in Serbian by Riblja Čorba as "Zelena trava doma mog", in 1993.
Katherine Jenkins released the song as a single on 20 November 2006, and it was included on her Serenade album during the same year. A live version was included on the single, which was recorded at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, just prior to the Australia versus Wales Rugby match on 4 November 2006.
Overview
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" are there to welcome him. He observes tokens of his childhood, including "the old oak tree that [I] used to play on".
Then comes a spoken section where the singer 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 changes "a guard and there`s a sad old padre", to "a garden and a sad old partridge".
References
1. UK No. 1 Hit for Tom Jones on 1 December 1966 (seven weeks at no. one)
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