Mary Black, No Frontiers (1989)
Key: :[D#] (w: Jimmy McCarthy)
VERSE 1:
[D#add9] [Gm7] [C7sus4] If life is a
[F] river,
[C7sus4] and your heart is a
[F] boat
[A#] And just
[A#/A] like a
[Gm] water baby, baby
[D#] born to
[F] float
[C7sus4] And if life is a
[F] wild wind that
[C7sus4] blows way on
[F] high
[A#] And your
[A#/A] heart is A-
[Gm]-melia
[D#] dying to
[F] fly
CHORUS:
[D#] Heaven
[F] knows
[Dm7] no fron-
[G]-tiers
[D#] And I've seen
[F] heaven in your
[D#add9] eyes
[Gm7] [C7sus4]
VERSE 2:
And if life is a
[F] bar room, in
[C7sus4] which we must
[F] wait
[A#] Round the
[A#/A] man with his
[Gm] fingers on the
[D#] ivory
[F] gates
[C7sus4] Where we sing until
[F] dawn, of our
[C7sus4] fears and our
[F] fates
[A#] And we
[A#/A] stack all the
[Gm] dead men in
[D#] self addressed
[F] crates
BRIDGE:
In your
[A#] eyes, faint as the singing of a
[F] lark
That
[Dm] somehow this black
[Gm] night
Feels warmer for the
[D#] spark, warmer for the
[A#] spark
To hold us 'til the
[F] day, when
[Dm] fear will lose its
[Gm] grip
And heaven has its
[D#] ways
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [D#add9] [F] [Dm7] [G] /
[D#] [F]
VERSE 3:
If your life is a
[F] rough bed, of
[C7sus4] brambles and
[F] nails
[A#] And your
[A#/A] spirit's a
[Gm] slave to man's
[D#] whips and man's
[F] jails
[C7sus4] Where you thirst and you
[F] hunger for
[C7sus4] justice and
[F] right
[A#] And your
[A#/A] heart is a
[Gm] pure flame of
[D#] man's constant
[F] night
REPEAT BRIDGE:
BRIDGE EXTENDED:
And heaven has its
[A#] ways, when all will harmon-
[F]-ise
And you
[Dm] know what's in our
[Gm] hearts, the dream will real-
[D]-ise
REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]
