Del Reeves - Green Green Gra** Of Home lyrics

It's good to touch the green, green gra** of home The old hometown looks the same As I step down from the train And there to meet me is my mama and papa And down the road I look and there runs Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green green gra** of home Yes they'll all come to meet me Arms a reaching smiling sweetly It's so good to touch the green, green gra** of home The old house is still standing Though the paint is cracked and dry And there's that old oak tree that I used to play on Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary Hair of gold and lips like cherries It's good to touch the green, green gra** of home Then I awake and look around me At the gray walls that surround me And I realize that I was only dreaming There's a guard and there's that sad old padre Arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak And again I'll touch the green, green gra** of home Yes they'll all come to see me in the shade of that old oak tree As they lay me neath the green, green gra** of home