Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[E] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[Eadd9] [G#m7] [C#7sus4] If life is a
[F#] river,
[C#7sus4] and your heart is a
[F#] boat
[B] And just
[B/A#] like a
[G#m] water baby, baby
[E] born to
[F#] float
[C#7sus4] And if life is a
[F#] wild wind that
[C#7sus4] blows way on
[F#] high
[B] And your
[B/A#] heart is A-
[G#m]-melia
[E] dying to
[F#] fly
CHORUS:
[E] Heaven
[F#] knows
[D#m7] no fron-
[G#]-tiers
[E] And I've seen
[F#] heaven in your
[Eadd9] eyes
[G#m7] [C#7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[F#] bar room, in
[C#7sus4] which we must
[F#] wait
[B] Round the
[B/A#] man with his
[G#m] fingers on the
[E] ivory
[F#] gates
[C#7sus4] Where we sing until
[F#] dawn, of our
[C#7sus4] fears and our
[F#] fates
[B] And we
[B/A#] stack all the
[G#m] dead men in
[E] self addressed
[F#] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[B] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[F#] lark
That
[D#m] somehow this black
[G#m] night
Feels warmer for the
[E] spark, warmer for the
[B] spark
To hold us 'til the
[F#] day, when
[D#m] fear will lose its
[G#m] grip
And heaven has its
[E] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [Eadd9] [F#] [D#m7] [G#] /
[E] [F#]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[F#] rough bed, of
[C#7sus4] brambles and
[F#] nails
[B] And your
[B/A#] spirit's a
[G#m] slave to man's
[E] whips and man's
[F#] jails
[C#7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[F#] hunger for
[C#7sus4] justice and
[F#] right
[B] And your
[B/A#] heart is a
[G#m] pure flame of
[E] man's constant
[F#] night
REPEAT BRIDGE:
BRIDGE EXTENDED:
And heaven has its
[B] ways, when all will harmon-
[F#]-ise
And you
[D#m] know what's in our
[G#m] hearts, the dream will real-
[D#]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]