{"id":20834,"date":"2024-06-18T05:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T05:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=20834"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:18:50","slug":"green-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/green-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Green, Green"},"content":{"rendered":"

by new Christie minstrels<\/span>
\n[Barry McGuire and Randy Sparks – 1963]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[Intro]  [C] [G] [C] [G with run]\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - [C] Green, green, it's [F] green they say on the [C] far side of the hill. [G with run]  - - - [C] Green, green, I'm [F] goin' away to where the [C] grass is [G] greener [C] still.<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 1] - - - \r\nOh well, I [C] told my [Em] mama on the [F] day I was [C] born, \"Don't you [F] cry when you [G] see I'm [C] gone.\" [G] - - - You know there [C] ain't no [Em] woman gonna [F] settle me [C] down. - - - I just [F] gotta be [G] travelin' [C] on. A-singin'... [G with run]\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 2] - - - No, there [C] ain't no-[Em]-body in this [F] whole wide [C] world gonna [F] tell me how to [G] spend my [C] time. [G] - - -  [C] I'm just a [Em] good lovin' [F] ramblin' [C] man sayin, [F] buddy, can you [G] spare me a [C] dime?  [G with run]\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - [C] Green, green, it's [F] green they say on the [C] far side of the hill.  [G with run] - - - [C] Green, green, I'm [F] goin' away to where the [C] grass is [G] greener [C] still.<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 3] - - - Yeah, [C] I don't [Em] care when the [F] sun goes [C] down, or where I [F] lay my [G] weary [C] head.  [G] - - - \r\n[C] Green, green [Em] valley or [F] rocky [C] road. It's [F] there I'm gonna [C] make my [C] bed.  [G with run]\r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n<\/span><\/span>Everybody, I want to hear it now...\r\n{ CHORUS }<\/span>\r\n\r\n[Outro]\r\nTo where the [C] grass is [G] greener [C] still.\r\nTo where the [C] grass is [G] greener [C] still.\r\nTo where the [C] grass is [G] greener [C] still.\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n
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by new Christie minstrels [Barry McGuire and Randy Sparks – 1963] Capo:5th fret [Intro] [C] [G] [C] [G with run] { CHORUS } – – – [C] Green, green, it’s [F] green they say on the [C] far side of the hill. [G with run] – – – [C] Green, … CLICK TO VIEW SONGGreen, Green<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27455,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20834\/revisions\/27455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}