Forty Shades Of Green Chords

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Forty Shades Of Green by Johnny Cash is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, A7 and D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			(G) I close my eyes and picture the (C) emerald of the sea, 
      From the (G) fishing boats at Dingle, 
      To the (A7) shores of Donagha (D)-dea; 
      I (G) miss the River Shannon, 
      And the (C) folks at Skibbereen, 
      The (G)  moorlands and the meadows 
      With their (D) forty shades of (G) green. 
Chorus: 
       But (C) most of all I miss a girl in 
       (G) Tipperary town. 
       And (C) most of all I miss her (G) lips, 
       As (A7) soft as eider-(D)-down; 
       (G) Again I want to see and do 
       The (C) things we've done and seen, 
       With the (G) breeze as sweet as shalamar, 
        And there's (D) forty shades of (G) green. 
 
      I wish that I could spend an hour 
      At (C) Dublin's churning surf, 
      I'd (G) love to watch the farmers drain  
     The (A7) bogs and spade the (D) turf; 
     To (G) see again the thatches  
     Of the (C) straw the women glean; 
     I'd (G) walk from Cork to Laren to see 
     The (D) forty shades of (G) green. 
 
                     Chorus 
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Chord diagrams

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