Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[G#] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[G#add9] [Cm7] [F7sus4] If life is a
[A#] river,
[F7sus4] and your heart is a
[A#] boat
[D#] And just
[D#/D] like a
[Cm] water baby, baby
[G#] born to
[A#] float
[F7sus4] And if life is a
[A#] wild wind that
[F7sus4] blows way on
[A#] high
[D#] And your
[D#/D] heart is A-
[Cm]-melia
[G#] dying to
[A#] fly
CHORUS:
[G#] Heaven
[A#] knows
[Gm7] no fron-
[C]-tiers
[G#] And I've seen
[A#] heaven in your
[G#add9] eyes
[Cm7] [F7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[A#] bar room, in
[F7sus4] which we must
[A#] wait
[D#] Round the
[D#/D] man with his
[Cm] fingers on the
[G#] ivory
[A#] gates
[F7sus4] Where we sing until
[A#] dawn, of our
[F7sus4] fears and our
[A#] fates
[D#] And we
[D#/D] stack all the
[Cm] dead men in
[G#] self addressed
[A#] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[D#] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[A#] lark
That
[Gm] somehow this black
[Cm] night
Feels warmer for the
[G#] spark, warmer for the
[D#] spark
To hold us 'til the
[A#] day, when
[Gm] fear will lose its
[Cm] grip
And heaven has its
[G#] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [G#add9] [A#] [Gm7] [C] /
[G#] [A#]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[A#] rough bed, of
[F7sus4] brambles and
[A#] nails
[D#] And your
[D#/D] spirit's a
[Cm] slave to man's
[G#] whips and man's
[A#] jails
[F7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[A#] hunger for
[F7sus4] justice and
[A#] right
[D#] And your
[D#/D] heart is a
[Cm] pure flame of
[G#] man's constant
[A#] night
REPEAT BRIDGE:
BRIDGE EXTENDED:
And heaven has its
[D#] ways, when all will harmon-
[A#]-ise
And you
[Gm] know what's in our
[Cm] hearts, the dream will real-
[G]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
