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This file includes song titles and poems about various shades of green.

Also see Colors (includes white, brown, black, grey, silver, gold, yellow, orange, and pink), Blue, Purple, and Red.

from Forty Shades of Green

(Johnny Cash)

I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea
from the fishin' boats at Dingle to the shores at Dunardee
I miss the River Shannon and the folks at Skibbereen
the moorlands and meadows and their forty shades of green

But most of all I miss a girl in Tipperary town
and most of all I miss her lips as soft as eiderdown
I long again to see and do the things we've done and seen
where the breeze is sweet as shalimar and there's forty shades of green

I wish that I could spend an hour at Dublin's churning surf
I long to watch the farmers drain the bogs and spade the turf
to see again the thatching of the straw the women glean
I'd walk from Cork to Larne to see those forty shades of green

Daffodils

Daffy-down-dilly has come to town
In a yellow petticoat and a green gown.

Rock-A-Bye, Baby

(author unknown)

Rock-a-bye, baby, thy cradle is green;
Father's a nobleman, mother's a queen;
And Betty's a lady, and wears a gold ring;
And Johnny's a drummer, and drums for the king.

Things that are Green

(compiled by Bonnie Jasperson)

Songs about Chartreuse

Songs about Emerald

Songs about Green

Songs about Jade

Songs about Olive

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