Blood Of Emeralds chords by Gary Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🤘 Intro:
| F#m   D | A   | Bm   | D  E  | x2
| E     | E   | E    | E    |


| A     | C#m  | F#m   | E    |
| D     | F#m  | Bm   | E    |
| F#m    | F#m  | F#m   | F#m   |
| F#m    | F#m  | F#m   | A    | x2


🤘 Verse 1:
   A
I was born up on the North side
     F#m
Where the Lagan River flows
    A
When I came across the border
   F#m     E
I was following my nose
    F#m  A
Dublin city '69
   Bm
There could have been no better place
     D     E
There was no better time
      F#m       A
Through the thunder and the rain
  Bm
The deepest blood of emeralds
  D    E     F#m
Was running through my veins

Tag:
| F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |

    | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
Blood of emeralds


🤘 Verse 2:
   A
I was down and out on Skid Row
   F#m
But I held on to my pride
  A
The darkest son of Ireland
    F#m      E
He was standin' by my side
     F#m       A
We would sail the stormy seas
Bm
Never looking back
     D         E
We were afraid of what we'd see
      F#m       A
Through the thunder and the rain
  Bm
The deepest blood of emeralds
  D    E      F#m
Was running through our veins


🤘 Chorus:
C#m        E            A
  Some of us will win and some of us will lose
          F#m
The strong will survive
C#m        E
  Some of us will fall
      D       A    B
Some of us won't get out of here alive


Tag:
| F#m  | F#m    | F#m   | A   |
        Blood of emeralds
| F#m  | F#m    | F#m   | A   |
        Blood of emeralds


🤘 Interlude:
| F#m  | F#m    | F#m   | A   | x4
| F#m  | F#m    | F#m   | F#m  |


🤘 Bridge:
A       E   F#m  E
 I was angry, I was sad
   D         E
Just thinking about the times we had
A          E   F#m  E
 I felt so lost and lonely too
   D      E         D
What could I say, what could I do?
          E     F#m  D
And after all, the time goes by
         C#7   F#m  E
No one knows the reasons why
  D       E          F#m    E
You lived each day like there was no tomorrow
  D         E         F#m    E
You spent those years living on time you borrowed
  D       C#m         F#m
And in your eyes, all I could see was sorrow


🤘 Interlude:
| A   | C#m   | F#m   | E   |
| D   | F#m   | Bm   | E   |
| A   | C#m   | F#m   | E   |
| D   | F#m   | Bm   | E   |


🤘 Chorus:
C#m        E          A
  Some of us will win, some of us will lose
         F#m
The strong will survive
C#m         B
  Some of us will fall
      D       A    Bm
Some of us won't get out of here alive


Tag: (Fade out)
| F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |

    | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
Blood of emeralds
    | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
Blood of emeralds
    | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
Blood of emeralds

| F#m  | F#m     | F#m   | A   |
       (Blood of emeralds.)
          | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
The deepest blood of emeralds

| F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |

    | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
Blood of emeralds

     | F#m  | F#m  | F#m   | A   |
The deepest blood of emeralds