Johnny Cash – Forty Shades of Green

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Forty Shades of Green (song)

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“Forty Shades of Green”
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
A-sideThe Rebel – Johnny Yuma
ReleasedApril 1961
GenreFolk
Length2:54
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Johnny Cash
Producer(s)Don Law, Frank Jones

Forty Shades of Green” is a song about Ireland, written and first performed by American country singer Johnny Cash. Cash wrote the song in 1959 while on a trip to Ireland; it was first released as a B-side of the song “The Rebel–Johnny Yuma” in 1961.

The Rebel-Johnny Yuma

It is also included in two of Cash’s albums: Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1963, and Johnny Cash: The Great Lost Performance – Live at the Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, New Jersey, recorded live in 1990 and released in 2007.

Cash once recalled performing the song in Ireland and being told by an old man afterwards, that it must have been an old Irish folk tune.

“Forty Shades of Green” has also been recorded by Daniel O’Donnell,

https://youtu.be/5r6o_if2BNs

Foster and Allen,

Foster & Allen – Forty Shades Of Green [Promo Video]

Roger Whittaker

Forty Shades Of Green

and Ruby Murray, among others.

Ruby Murray – Forty Shades Of Green

Irish guitarist Gary Moore quoted the song in the title track of his 1987 album, Wild Frontier, as a reference to a once innocent Ireland “before the wars began”: “The victims you have seen. You’ll never hear them sing again The Forty Shades Of Green”.

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Forty Shades Of Green – Instrumental

Forty Shades Of Green – Instrumental Cover

Bert Weedon – Forty Shades Of Green

https://youtu.be/6zZ9y6ZjZlg

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