Forty Shades Of Green

I close my eyes and picture the emerald of the sea

From the fishing boats that dangle to the shores of Donaghadee

I miss the River Shannon and the boats at Skibbereen

The moorlands and the meadows with 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

Again I want 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'd love to watch the farmers drain the bogs and spade the turf

To see again the thatching of the straw, the women gleam

I'd walk from Cork to Larne to see the 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

Again I want 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