"Green, Green Grass of Home", written by Claude "Curly" Putman Jr., and first recorded by singer Johnny Darrell in 1965, is a country song made popular by Porter Wagoner the same year, when it reached No.

When he steps down from the train, his parents are there to greet him, and his sweetheart, Mary, comes running to join them.

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.

Welsh singer Tom Jones, who was appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1965, visited Colony Records while staying in New York City.

[7] In September 2006, Jones performed the song as a duet with Jerry Lee Lewis during the taping of the latter's Last Man Standing TV special in New York City, and credited Lewis with providing the inspiration for his own recording.