The Bright Blue Rose Chords
The Bright Blue Rose by Maura O'Connell is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 1st fret. It uses the chords C, F, G, Am and Bb. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
verse 1
C F
I skimmed across black water, without once submerging
C G
Onto the banks of an urban morning
C F
That hungers the first light, much, much more than the
C G C
Mountains ever do
verse 2
C F
And she like a ghost beside me, goes down with the ease of a dolphin
C G
And emerges unlearned, unshamed, unharmed
C F
For she is perfect creature, natural in every feature
C Am G C
And I am the geek with the alchemists' stone
Bridge
F G C
For all of you who must discover,
F G C
For all who seek to understand,
F G C
For having left the path of others
Bb F G
You'll find a very special hand
verse 3
C F
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time
C G
And it is the only way
C F
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes
C Am G C
To ponder his death and his life eternally
verse 4
C F
And it is a holy thing, and it is a precious time
C G
And it is the only way
C F
Forget-me-nots among the snow, it's always been and so it goes
C Am G C
To ponder his death and his life eternally
Verse 5
C
One bright blue rose outlives all those
F
Two thousand years and still it goes
C Am G C
To ponder his death and his life eternally