Christy Moore – Bright Blue Rose (Guitar)

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I skimmed across black water without once submerging, onto the banks of an urban morning

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That hungers the first light, much much more than, the mountains ever do.

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And she like a ghost beside me goes down with the ease of a dolphin,

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And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed.

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For she is perfect creature, natural in every feature

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And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone.

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For all of you who must disc-o-ver,……. for all who seek to understand,

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For having left the path of o-o-thers,…. you'll find a very special hand.

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And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.

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Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, 

D                   G
and his life eternally.

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And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time, and it is the o-o-only way.

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Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes, to ponder his death, 

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and his life eternally.

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One bright blue rose outlives all those, two thousand years and still it goes,

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To ponder his death and his life eternally.