Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[F#] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[F#add9] [A#m7] [D#7sus4] If life is a
[G#] river,
[D#7sus4] and your heart is a
[G#] boat
[C#] And just
[C#/C] like a
[A#m] water baby, baby
[F#] born to
[G#] float
[D#7sus4] And if life is a
[G#] wild wind that
[D#7sus4] blows way on
[G#] high
[C#] And your
[C#/C] heart is A-
[A#m]-melia
[F#] dying to
[G#] fly
CHORUS:
[F#] Heaven
[G#] knows
[Fm7] no fron-
[A#]-tiers
[F#] And I've seen
[G#] heaven in your
[F#add9] eyes
[A#m7] [D#7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[G#] bar room, in
[D#7sus4] which we must
[G#] wait
[C#] Round the
[C#/C] man with his
[A#m] fingers on the
[F#] ivory
[G#] gates
[D#7sus4] Where we sing until
[G#] dawn, of our
[D#7sus4] fears and our
[G#] fates
[C#] And we
[C#/C] stack all the
[A#m] dead men in
[F#] self addressed
[G#] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[C#] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[G#] lark
That
[Fm] somehow this black
[A#m] night
Feels warmer for the
[F#] spark, warmer for the
[C#] spark
To hold us 'til the
[G#] day, when
[Fm] fear will lose its
[A#m] grip
And heaven has its
[F#] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [F#add9] [G#] [Fm7] [A#] /
[F#] [G#]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[G#] rough bed, of
[D#7sus4] brambles and
[G#] nails
[C#] And your
[C#/C] spirit's a
[A#m] slave to man's
[F#] whips and man's
[G#] jails
[D#7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[G#] hunger for
[D#7sus4] justice and
[G#] right
[C#] And your
[C#/C] heart is a
[A#m] pure flame of
[F#] man's constant
[G#] night
REPEAT BRIDGE:
BRIDGE EXTENDED:
And heaven has its
[C#] ways, when all will harmon-
[G#]-ise
And you
[Fm] know what's in our
[A#m] hearts, the dream will real-
[F]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
