Merle Haggard — Green Green Grass of Home

[Verse] The old hometown looks the same as I step down from a train And there to meet me is my mama and papa Down the lane, I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherry It's good to touch the green, green grass of home [Verse] The old house is still standing though the paint is cracked and dry There's the old oak tree that I used to play on Down the lane, I walk with my sweet Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherry It's so good to touch the green, green grass of home [Chorus] Yes they'll all come to meet me Arms out-reached smiling sweetly It's so good to touch the green, green grass of home [Verse] Then I awake and I look around me At the four grey walls that surround me And I realized that I was only dreaming For there's a guard and there's the sad old padre Arm in arm, we'll walk at daybreak When again I'll touch the green, green grass of home [Chorus] Yes, they'll all come to see me In the shade of that old oak tree When they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home