Forty shades of green.

This is credited to Johnny Cash (words and music)but could this be a traditional Irish number? does anyone know?

6    6   5   5   -4   5   5    7   7  -6  -6  6
I /close my eyes and/pic-ture the em-rald of the/

-6   7    7   7    7    -7  7   -6  6  6   6
sea from the/fish-ing boats at/Din-gle to the/

  -6   -4 -4  5  -4  6  6    5   5  -4
shores of Dun-a-/dee I/miss the riv-er/

  5   5   7   7   7    -6  -6  6  -6   7
Shan-non and the/folks at Skip-pa/ree the/

  7     7   -7   7   -6  6    5     5
 moor lands and the/mea-dows with their/

 -5 -5   5    -4   4    7
for-ty shades of/green but/ 

  7    7  7  7   -7 -7  -6  6   6   7  6 -5   
 most of all I/ miss a girl in/Tip-per-ar-y/

 5    7   7   7   7  7  -7  -7   -6  6
town and/most of all I/miss her lips as/

 6   7  6   5    -4  6   6   5  5   -4
soft as ei-der-/down a-/gain I want to/

 5  -4  5~~  7    7     -5    -6   6   -6~~  7
see and do- the/things we've done and seen/-where

 7    7    7   -7   7   -6 -6  6   5    -5
the/breeze is sweet as/Shal-i-mar and there's/

-5  -5   5    -4   4   
for-ty shades of/green   / to verse 2 

v2.
7  6    5   5  -4     5   5   5   7 
I wish that I could/spend an hour at/

 7   -6    -6    6   -6   7
Dub-lin's churn-ing/surf I'd/

 7    7  -7    7   -6   6    6    6
love to watch the/farm-ers drain the/

 -6  -4   -4    5   -4  6   6  5  5   -4
bogs and spade the/turf to/see a-gain the/

  5     5  7   7    7   -6  -6  6   -6    7
thatch-ing of the/straw the wo-men/glean I'd/

 7    7    -7  7   -6   6   5   5
walk from Cork to/Lairn to see the/

 -5 -5   5    -4   4 (To "but/most of all I" etc)
for-ty shades of/green /

Yours Harmusman.