John Denver Chords and Lyrics - The Flower That Shattered the Stone

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The Flower That Shattered the Stone


Capo 3rd fret


Gmaj7   D/F#   Gmaj7   D/F#   Gmaj7   Asus4   D - Gadd9   D - Gadd9


    D            D/F#         G        D
The earth is our mother, just turning around,
         F#m          Bm         A7sus4     A
With her trees in the forest and roots underground.
    D       D/F#           G           D
Our father above us, whose sigh is the wind,
G           D/F#      A         D
Paints us a rainbow without any end.


       D          D/F#        G             D
As the river runs freely, the mountain does rise,
       F#m           Bm          A7sus4      A
Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes.
       G                         D/F#            Asus4 - A
In the hearts of the children, a pure love still grows,
       Gmaj7          D/F#        Gmaj7          D/F#
Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home,
         Em7 - /F# - G      Asus4          D - G6   D - Gadd9
Like the flo - wer     that shattered the stone.

Sparrows find freedom beholding the sun. In the infinite beauty, we're all joined in one. I reach out before me and look to the sky. Did I hear someone whisper? Did something pass by? As the river runs freely, the mountain does rise, Let me touch with my fingers and see with my eyes. In the hearts of the children, a pure love still grows, Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home, Like the flower that shattered the stone. Like a bright star in heaven that lights our way home, Like the flower that shattered the stone.


D - G6 - D - G6 - D - G6 - D

(Words and music by John Denver, 1990)

Notes: For the song's release in Japan, Akihiro Shoji and Kosetsu Minami rewrote the second verse in Japanese, which goes like this:

Subete o idaku taiyou no hiyo. （すべてを抱く太陽の日よ）
Kagirinai ai no utsukushi sa de, （限りない愛の美しさで）
Kotori wa jiyuu ni habataite, （小鳥は自由に羽ばたいて）
Soshite watashi wa ikiteiru. （そして私は生きている）

Kono kawa no nagare, yama no iro. （この河の流れ、山の色）
Ima, kokoro no naka ni toketeiku. （今、心の中に溶けていく）
Kodomotachi no kokoro ni mebaeteiru, （子供達の心に芽生えている）
Sono kiyorakana ai, hoshi ga terasu, （その清らかな愛、星が照らす）
Like the flower that shattered the stone.