Green green    (Listen to midi)

 

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    Green, green, it’s green they say on the far side of the hill,

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    green, green, I’m going away to where the grass is greener still.

 

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1. Oh, well, I told my mama on the day I was born,

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    “Don’t you cry when you see I’m gone.

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    You know, there ain’t no woman gonna settle me down,

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    I just gotta be travellin’ on.”  I’m singing   + CHORUS

 

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2. No, there ain’t nobody in this whole wide world,

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    gonna tell me how to spend my time.

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    I’m just a good-lovin’ ramblin’ man,

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    say, buddy, can you spare me a dime?  It’s a    + CHORUS  

 

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3. Here I don’t care when the sun goes down,

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    where I lay my weary head.

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    Green, green valley or rocky road,

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    it’s there I’m gonna make my bed. Easy now   + CHORUS

 

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+ CHORUS  + to where the grass is greener still… (rep. and fade)

 

    (The New Christy Minstrels)