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Thread #113867 Message #3102798
Posted By: GUEST,Jane Ann Liston
25-Feb-11 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Forty Shades of Green (Johnny Cash)
Subject: RE: Origin: Forty Shades of Green (Johnny Cash)
I recall from 'Junior Choice' a song about an Irishman's car - was the name O'Rafferty?
As far as I can recall, the refrain included the lines:
'Oh, what a wonderful motor-car, t'was the greatest ever seen It used to be black as my father's hat, now it's forty shades of green On TV and on radio and in every public bar The burning question of the day was O'Rafferty's motor-car'.
I think it may have been sung by the same man who rendered 'Paddy McGinty's Goat' - was it Val Doonican?