Bright blue rose (video) (intro)

Am - D - G - F - C - D

G C

1. I skimmed across Blackwater without once submerging

G D

onto the banks of an urban morning,

G C

that hungers the first light much, much more

G D G

than the mountains ever do.

G

2. And she like a ghost beside me

C

goes down with the ease of a dolphin

G D

and emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed,

G C

for she is the perfect creature, natural in every feature

G D G

and I am the geek with the alchemist’s stone.

Am D G

For all of you who must discover,

Am D G

for all who seek to understand,

Am D G

for having left the path of others,

F C D

you find a very special hand.

G C

3. And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,

G D

and it is the only way,

G C

forget-me-nots among the snow, it’s always been and so it goes

G D G

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.

+ CHORUS

G C

4. And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time,

G D

and it is the only way,

G C

forget-me-nots among the snow, it’s always been and so it goes

G D G

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.

+ Am - C - D

G

One bright blue rose outlives all those

C

two thousand years, and still it goes

G D G

to ponder his debt and his life eternally.

+ repeat verse 4 as instrumental (2x)

(Christy Moore)