Letra de Forty Shades Of Green (Live At The Paramount Theatre, NJ/1990)
I wrote the song when I was in Ireland as I said And people said how did you know that much about our country? And I said when I was riding along in the car someone else was driving And I had the roadmap in my lap And I picked up all these names, put them together and rhymed them And started singing them It's called forty shades of greenI close my eyes and picture The emerald of the sea From the fishing boats at Dingle To the shores of DonaghadeeI miss the river Shannon And the folks at Skibbereen The moorlands and the meddles With their forty shades of greenBut most of all I miss a girl In Tipperary town And most of all I miss her lips As soft as eiderdownAgain I wanna see and do The things we've done and seen Where the breeze is sweet as Shalimar And there's forty shades of greenI wish that I could spend an hour At Dublin's churning surf I'd love to watch the farmers Drain the bogs and spade the turfTo see again the thatching Of the straw the women glean I'd walk from Cork to Larne to see The forty shades of greenBut most of all I miss a girl In Tipperary town And most of all I miss her lips As soft as eiderdownAgain I wanna see and do The things we've done and seen Where the breeze is sweet as Shalimar And there's forty shades of green