Slavný americký zpěvák (též pianista a kytarista) oblasti country a popu. Vl. jm. Kenneth Donald Rogers, původem z Houstonu (nar. 1938). Na střední škole, t.j. v pol. 50. let, zakládá combo The Scholars, se kterým pořizuje i první nahrávky....

Píseň: Green Green Grass Of Home

Interpret:
Kenny Rogers
Album:
Daytime Friends - The Very Best of Kenny Rogers
The old hometown looks the same
as I step down from the train
And there to meet me 
is my mama and papa


And down the road I look 
and there runs Mary
her golden lips like cherries
It's good to touch 
the green green grass of home.




Yes they've all come to meet me
arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's so good to touch 
the green green grass of home.




The old house is still standing
though the paint is cracked and dry
And there's that old oak tree 
that I used to play on


Down the lane I'd walk with my sweet Mary
her golden lips like cherries
It's good to touch 
the green green grass of home.




Yes they've all come to meet me
arms reaching smiling sweetly
It's so good to touch 
the green green grass of home.


Then I awake and look around me
at the gray walls that surround me
And I realized that 
I was only dreaming


For there's a guard and there's 
a sad old padre
arm in arm we'll walk at daybreak again
I'll touch the green green grass of home.




Yes they'll all come to see me i
n the shade of that old oak tree
As they lay me neath 
the green green grass of home.