Bright Blue Rose chords by Christy Moore

G                            C                        G                          D       D7
I skimmed across black water without once submerging, onto the banks of an urban morning.
     G                        C                         G             D
That hungers the first light, much much more than, the mountains ever do.
    G                          C
And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin,
G              D                     D7
And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.
    G                        C
For she is perfect creature, natural in every feature
    G        Em             D           G
And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone.


Chorus
C           D                G Em          C                      D
For all of you who must disc-o-ver,??. for all who seek to understand,
C          D                G  Em      F               C             D      D7
For having left the path of o-o-thers,?. you'll find a very special hand.

    G                       C                          G                   D
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.
    G                               C                               G          Em             D          G
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, and his life eternally.


Chorus

    G                       C                          G                   D
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.
    G                               C                               G          Em             D          G
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, and his life eternally


Instrumental: G ,C, G, D,   G, C, G, Em, D, G


     G                                       C
One bright blue rose outlives all those, two thousand years and still it goes,
     G        Em            D           G
To ponder his death and his life eternally.