Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[G] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[Gadd9] [Bm7] [E7sus4] If life is a
[A] river,
[E7sus4] and your heart is a
[A] boat
[D] And just
[D/C#] like a
[Bm] water baby, baby
[G] born to
[A] float
[E7sus4] And if life is a
[A] wild wind that
[E7sus4] blows way on
[A] high
[D] And your
[D/C#] heart is A-
[Bm]-melia
[G] dying to
[A] fly
CHORUS:
[G] Heaven
[A] knows
[F#m7] no fron-
[B]-tiers
[G] And I've seen
[A] heaven in your
[Gadd9] eyes
[Bm7] [E7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[A] bar room, in
[E7sus4] which we must
[A] wait
[D] Round the
[D/C#] man with his
[Bm] fingers on the
[G] ivory
[A] gates
[E7sus4] Where we sing until
[A] dawn, of our
[E7sus4] fears and our
[A] fates
[D] And we
[D/C#] stack all the
[Bm] dead men in
[G] self addressed
[A] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[D] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[A] lark
That
[F#m] somehow this black
[Bm] night
Feels warmer for the
[G] spark, warmer for the
[D] spark
To hold us 'til the
[A] day, when
[F#m] fear will lose its
[Bm] grip
And heaven has its
[G] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [Gadd9] [A] [F#m7] [B] /
[G] [A]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[A] rough bed, of
[E7sus4] brambles and
[A] nails
[D] And your
[D/C#] spirit's a
[Bm] slave to man's
[G] whips and man's
[A] jails
[E7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[A] hunger for
[E7sus4] justice and
[A] right
[D] And your
[D/C#] heart is a
[Bm] 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
[F#m] know what's in our
[Bm] hearts, the dream will real-
[F#]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]