The green green grass of home

The green green grass of home -Tom Jones - cover

The singer returns to his childhood home for what seems to be his first visit there since leaving in his youth. When he steps down from the train, his parents are there to greet him, and his sweetheart, Mary, comes running to join them. They meet him with "arms reaching, smiling sweetly". With Mary, the singer strolls at ease among the monuments of his childhood, including "the old oak tree that I used to play on", feeling that "it's good to touch the green, green grass of home".

Abruptly, the singer switches from song to recitation, as he awakens and sees "four grey walls" surrounding him and realizes that his return home was only a dream and that he is actually in prison. As he resumes singing, we learn that the singer is waking on the day of his scheduled execution. He sees a guard and "a sad old padre" who will walk with him to his execution at daybreak, and then he will return home "in the shade of that old oak tree, as they lay me 'neath the green, green grass of home".


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