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@hadrenspicer9035 День назад

This has been sung by others ,but this is Tom's song

@Trails-sp1ox Месяц назад

Yes! You ladies get it.

@steveking2085 5 месяцев назад

Elvis loved this so much he phoned the radio station to get them to play it over and over

@susanfox6666 10 месяцев назад

My late Mother always got teary over this one.

@andreazemar4516 5 месяцев назад

THE WAY I DESCRIBE TOM JONES' PERFORMANCE IS THAT " HIS EMOTION IS ALWAYS IN SYNCH WITH HIS MOTION". I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER WAY TO EXPRESS THAT.

@davidhoward5392 Год назад

He is now 80 plus still has that voice

@Thornus_______ 3 месяца назад

This came out during Vietnam a lot of Sons and brothers went home that way

@ohiowrencher8650 3 месяца назад

MOM, great explanation. I heard both sides as a veteran, but was too young during Vietnam era. Beautiful, the way you explain it about family and seeing those "kids" who were headed for war. Thanks for the explanation and letting another generation know what this means.

@stephenhanft1226 Год назад

Tom Jones has an incredibly powerful voice and sings with such emotion. "Green Green Grass Of Home" is one of his best

@lavadamorrison4569 9 месяцев назад

I love watching the reactions to these video's

@stephenrichardson1623 Месяц назад

My proper dad was born in the same village as Tom Jones and went to the same school

@robertorielly9099 9 месяцев назад

I'm going soon lived it feel my life was thier and well love all my kids and thank god for this title song of life ❤

@donaldsmith283 Год назад

I've spent 2 years in Vietnam. And everybody I knew knew this song by heart. Everybody was wishing that they were home.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

Hi Donald, two years is a long time, I am sure it felt like an eternity. It’s an honor to read your comment. I’m glad you came home.

@FrankTaylor-gm1jj Год назад

One of my absolute favorites by Sir Tom Jones Yes he has been knighted. An amazing voice and an excellent human being.

@nautika1 Год назад

One of very best song ever Tom Jones is the best

@pat1cust2 3 месяца назад

Thanks for another burst of nostalgia from the UK (my mother was from England) in the 1960s, where I grew up from ages 7 in '64 to 18 in '75. Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck songs were all over TV and radio in England back then. As noted in my comment to your "Delilah" reaction just now, the story of "Green, Green Grass" is sung by a man on death row who's reminiscing about his youth just before being executed for murder ("For there's a guard and there's a sad, old padre...along that road I'll walk at daybreak...before they lay me...") Capital punishment (hanging) was officially abolished in the UK in 1969 after a 4-year suspension (according to my online research just now) but had been used less and less frequently anyway. I vaguely remember references to it in the news when I was a kid. Most Tom Jones songs are way more upbeat than this and "Delilah," but all of his music is great.

@musicaficionado2974 Год назад

So great you have caught the essence of the song. Some people get lost in the beauty of the music and don't realize the tragedy behind it. Yes, that's the magic of Tom Jones. Amazing and emotional reaction! Thanks and God Bless!

@lbd-po7cl Год назад

Oh my! I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid, maybe 50 years ago. I’m sure this was in my dad’s record collection, and I have a vague memory of him singing it as well (dad had a fine baritone voice, and did a bit of amateur musical theater). He is long gone now, so for me this has evoked memories of dad and his warm, rich singing voice. Thanks.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

How beautiful! So glad it was able to bring back some wonderful memories of your dad ☺️

@myviewmjs3632 8 месяцев назад

I agree with Mom sort of , as a Vietnam Vet, the green green grass of in the song was a grave so this is interpreted for me as being buried at home.

@rod370 8 месяцев назад

Hi, This song is about a man on death row. Going to be hung. Its His best song. Stay safe to you two and your loved ones.

@ronhall5395 Год назад

I was a Vietnam era young man. I always interpreted this song as him coming home in a casket. It was sad but very moving.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

Yes, I believe you’re right. However, people have different interpretations… that’s the beauty of this song…. It makes you think and wonder. 😊

@markflint2629 Год назад

@@generationgapreacts He is in a Mexican Prison

@donaldduck2139 Год назад

I must have sung this song 10 million times to myself over the years...must say I sounded every bit as good as ol Tom each time 😵‍💫 honest

@generationgapreacts Год назад

I’m sure it’s beautiful! 🤓

@donaldduck2139 Год назад

@@generationgapreacts thank you for believing me 😅

@generationgapreacts Год назад

@@donaldduck2139 Do you have any videos on RU-vid?

@bobbyboko6317 Год назад

Did you sound like Donald Duck when you sang it 🤣

@donaldduck2139 Год назад

@@bobbyboko6317 😅yeah bud, like a quacked record, "down the road I look and there runs Daisy"

@myviewmjs3632 Год назад

Yes, this song had a particular meaning or even meanings for Vietnam vets. Coming home safely or maybe to be buried.

@markmurphy558 11 месяцев назад

This song is one of my earliest musical memories. My mother LOVED Tom Jones, and played his What's New Pussycat album, and it stayed on the turntable, playing incessantly.

@nyneeveanya8861 Год назад

I love moms take on it. Also being a military brat I related the same way as her to this song. Barricks were often painted grey and had a guard at the door, most squadrons had a chaplain, priest, or padre who also went on patrols. Patrols often started at daybreak. This is sad as he dreamt of home, family, and his love then woke to the war, went on patrol and died, almost as if the dream had been an omen.

@badrigravesande6952 Год назад

Another great artist he and Rngelbert

@mlhesler68 Год назад

1973 the Vietnam War was ending and Tony Orlando and Dawn hit big with Tie A Yellow Ribbon Around The Old Oak Tree as many returned from the War after doing their time. 3 long years for those who joined.

@susieq9801 Год назад

He actually did do a video of this song from inside a jail cell on his own TV show. Definitely about going to execution in the morning. "Then I awake and look around me at four grey walls that surround me" "There's a sad old padre, on and on we'll walk at daybreak" as "they'll lay me 'neath the green green grass of home".

@patriciaewing8164 10 месяцев назад

Helene Fischer, Tom Jones - Sexbomb (Live - Die Helene Fischer Show) aged 80 in this video it’s a must for you both please watch 👍🏻😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@GingerLady57 Год назад

Love Sir Tom Jones, actually more now than when he was touring. Of course he is in his 80’s now but his voice is as good as ever.

@2727rogers Год назад

Where I lived we use to get the TV shows from the B.B.C. and This is Tom Jones was a show the whole family use to watch. Thanks for the memories.

@thomastimlin1724 Год назад

I was in a band and we used to cover this song. The bass player one night sang "and there's the old oak tree, the one I used to pee on..." we all lost it and couldn't do the rest of the song...only Tom Jones could sing this right and that is why it became a big hit. Yes, Tom's rendition is very emotional and touching. Appreciate the Viet Nam era interpretation and military's adaptation...I had forgotten that. However I hated tie a Yellow Ribbon 'young the Old Oak tree, a similar song only getting out of jail. It was a "happy happy" dumb song, and the military adapted that later during Desert Storm. Yuch! Hahaha

@encrypter46 Год назад

I, quite, agree!!!

@williamjordan5554 Год назад

Elvis also did a version of this song. He and Tom were pals.

@Djm8520 Год назад

This song was not written for Tom. It is not about his childhood. It is not about Wales, although Wales has adopted it as their own. It was written by legendary Nashville songwriter Curly Putnam and it was a country hit for Porter Waggoner in 1965. Jerry Lee Lewis put it on an album and that’s where Tom discovered it and, in 1966, turned it into one of his biggest hits which he still performs today. You can interpret the song anyway you want to, but it’s about a prisoner on death row who is to be hanged for his unspecified crimes and how, on the eve of his death, his thoughts are of home. This is a different version of the song, from his hit TV show and it clearly depicts the true meaning of the song: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hSajFnkUxQY.html

@penderyn8794 Год назад

Cymru am byth

@Djm8520 Год назад

@@penderyn8794 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@encrypter46 Год назад

Many people consider this to be the continuing and ending to "Delilah".

@Djm8520 Год назад

@@encrypter46 Well that would be fanciful thinking. Different writers. Way different time periods-writing wise. GGGH came before he kills Delilah, so he would already have been hanged before he ever met her. Also, Tom released GGGH BEFORE Delilah.

@encrypter46 Год назад

@@Djm8520 I understand that. I'm just mentioning what some people believe.

@geoffmower8729 Год назад

I played this song for year in my band and it was only recently I had to wright the words down for a friend. I had no idea is about someone on death row dreaming about his home and family.

@louiemann7499 Год назад

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon" is very similar to this song. I'm not American but I think it has become a tradition for families to tie ribbons around trees on their street or property to welcome loved one's home from the Military. Song is actually about a guy getting out of prison!

@anglosaxon5874 Год назад

One of my favourite songs of mine [of all time] when I was a child [and even now!] and remember by father always singing it [he was a soldier at the time]. I went to military schools too in the 60/70's [father based mainly in Germany]. A sad song beautifully sung by Tom.

@1951woodygeo Год назад

Tom is a Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and UK 🇬🇧 legend with the most powerful voice I have ever heard he can sing RocknRoll ballads you name it he could sing it I’d even say he could sing opera if he chose .

@MrMustard2U Год назад

React to Tom Jones video- I Wanna Get Back With You ft. Tori Amos... awesome Tune, under rated... it's a love song, you ladies will Dig it...

@TheFrem1 Год назад

Thank you for that ladies, It just reminds me of my dear late mother (RIP) she was such a Tom Jones fan and when she finally managed to see him live she was just so so happy, Made me tear up a bit thinking of her now she's not here anymore, Again thank you both.

@edwinsemidey1992 Год назад

He still sounds the same today

@jwrow350 Год назад

He was waiting to walk the green mile

@user-ml3un8xw1t 4 месяца назад

Your mom is beutiful am South African India

@julieet52 Год назад

I always cry at this song 🎵 😭 its a truly beautiful song and Tom is an amazing singer and performer. Thankyou for playing one of my favourites and yes I still shed a tear, such vivid imagery as he sings ♥️

@TheReuby667 Год назад

I love how your lyrical dissections can teach me new things about songs I've listened to for 20years. I too loved this song when I was in the military. This one and 'Leaving on a jet plane'

@user-pk2fg8im4u Год назад

My mom would request this song when sitting around a campfire with my guitar. Good old days, I miss her. Bobby Bare did this song too, very good. Thank you.

@dagmar.6954 Год назад

Tom Jones is a Welsh singer who has one of the smoothest powerful voices around. And he was a showman too, in fact he was a big heart-throb with the ladies. He has so many hits such as "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Delilah", "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat?", "She's a Lady" etc. He covers a lot of genres. He is still performing & is a coach on "The Voice" UK version. He also had a variety show from 69 - 71 & had some of the biggest music stars at the time.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

All great songs! 😃

@michaelasay8587 Год назад

Dagmar, I think Englebert was better.

@dagmar.6954 Год назад

@@michaelasay8587 I like both of them.

@alistairgraham1167 12 дней назад

His latest album, which is out now ,has a song on it called I won't crumble, it is on the uk .the Voice, on you tube, explains about his life worth a listen to

@thomasbradley2225 День назад

Vietnam veteran; however, Jones sings a convict awaiting execution. Burial at home.

@festidious2644 Год назад

Sometimes you can never go back to the green , green grass of home. I am so thankful that I have The Lord with me every day to comfort me. Baby Gap, you should see your face! This one and Without Love, I think are my two favourite Tom Jones songs. I was at the Towers store around 1969 or thereabouts and an older woman was asking the record salesman if he had Without Love. She was cooling herself down with her hands while she exclaimed, "What a man!".

@generationgapreacts Год назад

I understand! This one hit me in the emotions

@festidious2644 Год назад

@@generationgapreacts I hope everyone got through that storm okay. My great grandfather married a Nellie Jones from Wales so I might be related to Tom!

@matskarlsson3219 Год назад

Hi! "Green Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr, and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrel in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No.4 on the Country chart. It was also recorded by Bobby Bare and by Jerry Lee Lewis. Tom Jones learned the song from Lewis version and, in 1966, he had a worldwide No.1 hit with it. Some other artists who has recorded the song. "Roger Miller", "Dean Martin", "Johnny Cash", "Joan Baez", "Frankie Laine", "Trini Lopez", "Elvis Presley", "Kenny Rogers", and many more. "Tom Jones - Green Green Grass of Home" will always be the (Number one)

@encrypter46 Год назад

Many people consider this to be the continuing and ending to "Delilah".

@lloydjamesgillies1145 Год назад

Excellent

@ljw5768 Год назад

Some years ago Tom came home to Pontypridd to do a concert in the park. When he sang ‘the old house is still standing’ he pointed to it as his home village of Treforest is visible from the park.

@grigoriorifiel Год назад

One of my favorite songs from my childhood. The original version was performed by Johnny Darrell. I grew up listening to the Merle Haggard version. He was one of my mom's favorite singers. This song has literally been covered by everyone who is anyone, these versions and many others including; Elvis, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagner, Roger Miller, and The Grateful Dead. Thanks for the great reaction.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

Thank you! 😃

@steelers6titles Год назад

Dream of a condemned man. Still packs a punch.

@johnthegreek5836 Год назад

Tom Jones is awesome and he’s still going strong in his 80’s, just look how he’s dressed, that’s class

@christinelegate8137 Год назад

I loved this song as a kid. It was a gigantic hit. I haven’t seen this footage of him sing it so thanks for this. You can here his Welsh accent in parts of this.

@JimD56 4 месяца назад

You might be confusing this song with Tie A Yellow Ribbon ('Round the Old Oak Tree), which is about a man returning from prison, but many people, including the Military, have adopted it as a song about a man coming home from war. Green Green Grass is definitely about a man in prison, who will be executed in the morning.

@matthewlee6168 Год назад

I have been waiting for years for someone to react to this song! So glad y'all took the time to do so.

@timothyparsons8327 Год назад

Reminds me of my schoolboy years. My favourite by him is Never Gonna Fall In Love ( again), and I urge you to react to that?.

@andreazemar4516 5 месяцев назад

NOTE THAT IN OTHER FOREIGN LANGUAGES, THEY JUST DROP THAT PART THAT TALKS ABOUT BEING BURIED IN THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME. FOR EXAMPLE THE FRENCH VERSION JUST TALK ABOUT THE SOLDIER RETURNING HOME FROM THE WAR AND CONCLUDES THAT "C'EST BON D'OUVRIR LES MURS DE SA MAISON" WHICH MEANS "IT FEELS GOOD TO OPEN THE GATE OF HIS SWEET HOME AGAIN". SO THE FOREIGN VERSIONS COMPLETELY OMIT THE TRAGIC PART, THEY EXPRESS ONLY THE JOY OF A SOLDIER RETURNING BACK HOME. IN THAT REGARD, WHAT MOMMY EXPRESSED IS RIGHT.

@richardmayville7738 Год назад

awesome song ... by tom I loved it , speaking of the MILITARY - GO CHECK OUT HOMEFREE'S -GO REST HI UPON THE MOUNTAIN , WOW WHAT A BACK STORY . THANKS MAMA GAP AND BABY GAP YOU 2 MAKE ARE DAY'S AND NIGHTS JUST MUCH MORE BETTER ...

@Isleofskye Год назад

Deservedly and undeniably FIRST. This is all about Tom's homeland of Wales:)

@Brian-om2hh 6 месяцев назад

The pride of Wales, and still current 50+ years on.....

@johnhilliard7023 Год назад

Tom is his usual greatness with this song, but if you really want to be blown away, check out Elvis singing it.

@danielmillward9947 11 месяцев назад

I'm sorry but elvis can't hold a candle to these level of singers, Tom Jones, engelbert, Andy Williams, matt monro etc

@Johnnycdrums 9 месяцев назад

When he walked with the old Padre at daybreak, he was thinking of sweet Mary, not Delilah.

@joepangia4413 Год назад

Great reaction ladies! Please remember to do “Try a little Tenderness” if you get a chance. 1969 live colour version. Many of us true Tom Jones fans feel it’s his best performance, however very few find it and do it here on RU-vid. But when they do it’s an instant soul touching favourite!

@dalepettiner5036 Год назад

One of the most powerful voices of my generation.

@wayne_twentyfive Год назад

Great reaction, ladies .. I just knew that you were going to get emotional, Baby Gap, when Tom revealed what his actual situation was in the song .. Even after having listened to it many times over the years, It still gets to me at times .. Any song that connects us to our own mortality and the final separation that it will bring between us and our loved ones is bound to hit hard .. Wayne

@generationgapreacts Год назад

Lovely sentiment Wayne, and so true. That was an emotional rollercoaster song.

@Debbie338 Год назад

I’ve always thought of this as the sequel to Delilah.

@charlesvaughn2192 Год назад

My favorite song by him!

@davidsewellclarke4997 Год назад

This was one my favourite songs since the was knee high to a grasshopper, find the video of Petula Clark, Down town it was played every Christmas in Bielefeld in Germany as my late Father was ex Major retired now deceased of the the Royal Engineers. Also Tom Jones singing I'll never fall in love ❤️ again. I was born in Singapore and grew up also in Malaysia Penang Kuala Lumpur. The sons Tom Jones sang was writing by Lonnie Donegan a well known musician here in England.

@dean828 Год назад

Songs can often be interpreted many ways... but I have always taken this one straight forward... the man has done wrong and laments the choices he made... he has to pay for it and that is how he will be returning home... Tom Jones owns it... Elvis Presley version is a winner to... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green,_Green_Grass_of_Home

@donaldsmith283 Год назад

This song was popular During the Vietnam war. I was in saigon when I 1st heard the song.. Thank you

@Titus-as-the-Roman Год назад

Mam, you and I shared a similar childhood, From my first breath to graduation I too was either on a military base or we lived in a military community. Born at Sewart Air force base in Tennessee (which is now Smyrna Airport), moved to Myrtle Beach A.F.B., then onto Wright-Patterson A.F.B., summers I was at the family farm in South Central Kentucky, THAT was home. 😀 P.S.- I also graduated in '76

@kimbirch1202 Год назад

Although I'm not a singer, I used to live singing along to this song

@billshine401 Год назад

Great color coordination with this song.

@Eric_L_Laney Год назад

I saw the sheet music to this song frequently on the piano growing up. My mom used to play it every now and then.

@kevcall Год назад

A great song and a wonderful reaction

@georgiaann4402 Год назад

The Delilah song before this one, makes a full story.

@keridenner2187 Год назад

Try listening to Tom’s duets from his show…. Good one to start with is Stevie Wonder…. I also like his cover of “ mama told me not to come” sing with the band The Stereophonics ( great band btw)….. enjoy…….. love your reviews.

@andrewwells3367 Год назад

I can see why the song resonates with the families of soldiers away from home, but the lyrics clearly speak of a prisoner being executed and taken home to be buried.

@johnmignosi2892 Год назад

Your reactions are wonderful.

@Isleofskye Год назад

2 brilliant music videos to react to are both Gary Moore: 1/ "I've Still Got The Blues For You" LIVE In Paris 2/ "Parisienne Walkways" KIVE In Montreux. Enjoy Ladies:)

@peterericakaiser1717 Год назад

Both very good. Gary Moore is so underrated, he could make a guitar speak like no one else.

@Isleofskye Год назад

@@peterericakaiser1717 I bought my first records in London in 1960 and these are 2 of the finest Live performances I have seen on RU-vid and no spoilers but I love the "surprise" at Montreux which could have deceived fans not familiar with Gary's mischievousness😀

@richardconnolly4835 Год назад

You gals would like Michael Martin Murphy's Wildfire, a moving, supernatural story song. Get the tissues ready.

@philipwilkin1975 Год назад

You're not the only woman to think that Tom Jones was sexy, during his live performances, women would often throw their knickers onto the stage!!

@luster2233 Год назад

React to Bill withers I can’t write left handed! It’s a beautiful song written about the Vietnam… My uncle is bill withers and he served 9 years in the navy!! I’m sure you guys will love it…

@Peter-oh3hc Год назад

Johnny cash sang this ant folsom prison. I thought it was bold to talk about the green grass and Mary's lips and then heard the ending. I can't imagine what it was like to be one of those men in that room that night

@chrisinnes2128 Год назад

I've always thought it was a song about a soldier who woke up in his barracks in the morning dreaming of home and on the same morning went in to battle and died

@charlesstraight5499 Год назад

Better get your tissues and have them on standby because the last verse of this song will have you in tears. It's a great song with a very sad ending.

@edwardmason930 Год назад

I always interpreted it as him serving his time and returning home rather than being executed.

@MarkMcLT Год назад

Daughter's interpretation 100%

@davidclarke2513 4 месяца назад

This song is about a man in prison dreaming about his past good life,then he wakes up and relises that he's been dreaming and is going to be executed then is buried next to the tree he once played on,it has nothing to do with the military whatsoever

@charlesstraight5499 Год назад

From watching several of your videos now I can always tell when you need that box of tissues cuz I kind of have figured out what songs trigger you the most and I knew this one would trigger you because you weren't expecting him to be talking about the last time being buried underneath the Green Green Grass of Home. Like I said previously beautiful song I Love It but my God is at one of the saddest last verses I've ever heard I think the only person who's ever moved me that much was Karen Carpenter.

@generationgapreacts Год назад

Yes you must know me! That song definitely got me emotional. Beautifully sung heart breaking song.

@festival5920 Год назад

I always wondered what the guy did to end up on death row

@deborahlewis656 Год назад

My momma( rip sweet darma); used to tell me about seeing tom in concert, and seeing bras and panties actually thrown on stage multiple times; I know my momma did too😉🥰🥰🙏

@TesseRact7228 Год назад

Talking about the military and military songs - try "Ballad of the Green Beret" by Sgt. Barry Sadler

@anitaherbert1037 Год назад

Have you listened to his new album in his eighties. My favourites NO HOLE IN MY HEAD, and the must watch psychedelic photo and video montage REALITY TELEVISION BLUES which is a fast forward commentary on the development of modern media.

@ds8680 Год назад

🙏🏿🌹🌷💐🌺

@davidspicer4330 Год назад

This song belongs to Tom.others have recorded it but Tom's delivery with the orchestration in the the background is outstanding.no one comes close to Tom delivery