Chords for Christy Moore. Bright Blue Rose, Vicar Street, Dublin 2021

to go on [D] with _ this.
_ _ _ _ I say, across the black water,
[G]
the air was so virgin,
[D]
all the nights of an early [A] morning.
_ _ _ _ The hum, _ _ the first [G] light was so much more
than [D] the mountains _ _ ever knew.
_ _ _ And she, like [A] a ghost beside [G] me,
goes down beneath the water,
[D]
and _ _ emerges [B] on [Em] land of stable [A] hand.
_ _ [D]
She is the perfect creature,
[G]
natural in every feature,
[D] and I [A] am the geek,
who wets the _ _ [D] alchemist's soul. _ _
_ _ [B] _ For all [A] of you who must [D] _ discover, _
_ _ _ [Em] for all [A] who seek to [D] understand, _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ for how [A] you neglect the path [D] of _ _ others,
_ [C] _ you [G] find a very [A] special path. _
She [D] is _ a holy [G] name,
and is a precious [D] diamond.
It is the _ [A] only way. _
_ For when we must [D] come under snow,
[G] it's always been,
and so it goes,
[A] to punish _ death,
and this life _ [D]
eternally.
_ _ _ What bright blue rose,
how pure it all glows,
two [G] thousand years,
and still it flows,
[Dm] to punish death,
[A] and this life _ _ [D] eternally. _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _