Talk:Green, Green Grass of Home

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An infobox for the Tom Jones version was requested at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_notable_songs/5

@will stay there for the rest of his life.: IIRC he really can't, on account of being on death row. Shinobu 18:10, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Jones tied the Beatles[edit]

How big was Tom Jones? When this song stayed Number 1 on the UK charts for 7 weeks, it equalled the Beatles's 7 week record, which they'd held for three years. ( "From Me to You.") I remember a NY AM disk jockey (Scott Muni?) exclaiming at the time, "Number One on the English charts for seven weeks! Only the Beatles have done that in England." He couldn't help blurting out, "Which shows you how much THEY know." Profhum (talk) 21:26, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Who's Mary?[edit]

Isn't there the implication that it is Mary whom he has done to death, it happened in his home town, hence they took him away to prison and execution and they will be taking him back to be buried? It does not say so explicitly, but surely it is that psychological undertone which struck a note with the public and explains why what is a somewhat mawkish and sentimental song had such a wide appeal. Guy 16:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Are you implying it's a murder ballad? – Hattrem 03:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had never thought about that, but no, I don't think so. I think Mary is simply an old sweetheart.Garr1984 01:29, 3 April 2007 (UTC)§[reply]

Do you really think Mary's parents/whoever, or anyone is going to let him be buried in the green green grass of home if he murdered Mary there? Okay he's always likely to have a problem getting buried at home but much more so if he murdered his sweetheart at home Nil Einne (talk) 17:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You know, considering the fact that this song originally came out during the Vietnam War, I have always thought that the man in the song was a prisoner of war, about to be put to death by the enemy97.125.58.19 (talk) 04:42, 13 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE: If you listen carfully to the backing singers on the Tom Jones version (The Mike Sammes Singers) they sing "for there's a garden and a sad old pardre" rather than "Guard" as Tom sings. I believe this was due to a lyric recording error when Tom's Manager was listening to the the original Country version on a wireless. TheLexTalionis (talk) 17:41, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The song doesn't say anything about the crime(s) he is being executed for. Presumably it is murder, as I don't think people were executed in the Western world for any other crimes during the 1960s. In the first verse he introduces his parents; in the second verse he introduces Mary, who is obviously his girlfriend. We can rule out him having killed her, due to the last verse, which is about his burial:

Yes, they'll [parents, Mary and some others] all come to see me
In the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me 'neath the green green grass of home

Jim Michael (talk) 00:27, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Asphalt Jungle[edit]

I read somewhere that the song writer was inspired to write the song when watching The Asphalt Jungle on TV. The final scene has the hero dying as he approched the "green, green grass" of his ideal home and love. MBG119.11.39.181 (talk) 13:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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