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Green Green Grass Of Home by Johnny Cash - Guitar Chords

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Version 1 Version 2

            These chords are close to what they were playing 
at Folsom Prison, back in '68.
Capo at 1.

[Verse 1]

C
The old home town looks the same 
      F                  C
as I step down from the train
                                       G7    
And there to meet me is my mama and my papa
          C                 
Down the road I look and there runs Mary,
F
hair of gold and lips like cherries.
      C                 G                    C
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

[Verse 2]

         C                                   F                    C
The old house is still standing, though the paint is cracked and dry,
                                             G7      
And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on
          C
Down the lane I walk and with my sweet Mary,
F
hair of gold and lips like cherries.
      C                 G                    C
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

[Chorus]

C                                     F
Yes,they'll all come to see me arms a-reaching, smiling sweetly;
      C                 G                    C     
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.

[Bridge]

C
Then I awake and look around me
        F                    C
to the cold gray walls that surround me 
                                 G7
and then I re-a-lize I was only dreaming.
               C
For there's a guard and a sad old padre
F
Arm and arm I walk at daybreak 
 C                           G             C
again I'll touch the green, green grass of home

[Chorus]

C                                       F
Yes, they'll all come to see me in the shade of the- old oak tree;
    C                      G                    F    C
As they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of ho--me.

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