Australian singles charts:
Green, Green Grass of Home entered the Kent charts on 3 December 1966 and was a #1 hit. The song was #4 on the Top 100 of 1967.
Album:
The song is on Green, Green Grass of Home which entered the Kent album charts on 15 July 1967 and peaked at #7.
Songwriter:
Curly Putman
Producer:
Peter Sullivan
Record label of Australian release:
Decca
Songfacts:
This country song about a condemned prisoner who longs to escape to the green, green grass of home was inspired by a crime scene in the film The Asphalt Jungle. Nashville songwriter Curly Putnam wrote it in 1964 and it was initially recorded by country singer Johnny Darrell.
Tom Jones decided to record this after hearing a version by Jerry Lee Lewis, a legendary rocker who had started making country records.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/tom-jones/green-green-grass-of-home
Lyrics:
The old home town looks the same as I step down from the train
And there to meet me is my mama and papa
Down the road I look and there runs Mary hair of gold and lips like cherries
It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home
Yes, they’ll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly
It’s good to touch the green, green grass of home
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