Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[B] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[Badd9] [D#m7] [G#7sus4] If life is a
[C#] river,
[G#7sus4] and your heart is a
[C#] boat
[F#] And just
[F#/F] like a
[D#m] water baby, baby
[B] born to
[C#] float
[G#7sus4] And if life is a
[C#] wild wind that
[G#7sus4] blows way on
[C#] high
[F#] And your
[F#/F] heart is A-
[D#m]-melia
[B] dying to
[C#] fly
CHORUS:
[B] Heaven
[C#] knows
[A#m7] no fron-
[D#]-tiers
[B] And I've seen
[C#] heaven in your
[Badd9] eyes
[D#m7] [G#7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[C#] bar room, in
[G#7sus4] which we must
[C#] wait
[F#] Round the
[F#/F] man with his
[D#m] fingers on the
[B] ivory
[C#] gates
[G#7sus4] Where we sing until
[C#] dawn, of our
[G#7sus4] fears and our
[C#] fates
[F#] And we
[F#/F] stack all the
[D#m] dead men in
[B] self addressed
[C#] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[F#] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[C#] lark
That
[A#m] somehow this black
[D#m] night
Feels warmer for the
[B] spark, warmer for the
[F#] spark
To hold us 'til the
[C#] day, when
[A#m] fear will lose its
[D#m] grip
And heaven has its
[B] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [Badd9] [C#] [A#m7] [D#] /
[B] [C#]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[C#] rough bed, of
[G#7sus4] brambles and
[C#] nails
[F#] And your
[F#/F] spirit's a
[D#m] slave to man's
[B] whips and man's
[C#] jails
[G#7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[C#] hunger for
[G#7sus4] justice and
[C#] right
[F#] And your
[F#/F] heart is a
[D#m] pure flame of
[B] man's constant
[C#] night
REPEAT BRIDGE:
BRIDGE EXTENDED:
And heaven has its
[F#] ways, when all will harmon-
[C#]-ise
And you
[A#m] know what's in our
[D#m] hearts, the dream will real-
[A#]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]