Chords for Sting - All This Time

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I looked out across _ the _ river today _ [D] Saw _ [C] _ [G] a city in the fog and a mortuary tower
where the seagulls play _ Saw _ _ the sad, shy horses walking home
Saw them light _ [D]
two [G] _ priests and a fairy October geese and a cold winter's night
[D] Saw _ _ [Em] _ this time _ _ _ _ the river [A] _ _ [C] _
flowed _ [G] endlessly [D] _ _
To _ [G] the sea _ _ two _ _ priests came around
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[G] _ I asked tonight one _ _ _ young one old I would [D] praise for the [G] dying to serve the final rite
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[G] _ One to learn, one to teach [D] _
_ [G] Which way the cold wind blows
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_ [C] _ [G] Blushing and flapping and [D] peacefully [G] black like a murderous crow
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Saw _ [Em] _ this time _ _ the _ [D] river [A] _ [C] flowed _ _ _ [D] endlessly _ _ To _ [G] the sea _ _
_ If [Em] I were to _ take a boat from the [C] river _ _ [G] I'd bury the [D] old man, _ _ I'd bury [G] him at sea _ _
[C] Blessed [G] are the poor _ [D]
for [C] _ [G] they shall inherit the earth
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_ [C] _ _ [G] But it's a bit poorer than being [D] a fat man [G] in the eye of a needle
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_ [C] As [G] these words are spoken [D] I swear _ [G] I hear the old man laugh
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[C] _ _ [G] My goodness, I used up [D] world and [C] I couldn't be worth [G] having
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_ _ [Em] All this time the _ _ river _ _ [C]
flowed _ _ [D] endlessly _ _ _ Like [G] a silent tear _ _
_ _ All this time _ _ the _ [A] river _ _ [C] _
flowed Father [G] if Jesus [D] exists
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Then I call me never again _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Jesus _
_ _ _ [A] called us, _ [E] _
_ [D] the [A] Romans built this place _
_ They built a wall and a temple and [E] an edge of [A] the empire garrisoned town
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They [A] _ lived and they died, [E] they prayed to [A] their gods But the stone god did not make a _ sound
And their empire crumbled to all those left What soever _ [Em] workmen found
_ _ [F#m] All this time _ the [B] _ river _ _
[D] flowed In the [Am] falling [E] light _
[A] _ _ of northern sun _
_ [D] At [F#m] far _ highway, _ _ _ _ [D] Jacob heard from the river _ Men go [A] crazy in [E] [A] convocations, they only get [E] down one [A] by one _ _
_ _ One by one _ _
_ _ One by one
One _ _ _ by one _ _
_ I looked down across the _ _ _ _ river to the water _
_ And saw a city in the far corner, gorgeous, high, where the sun don't go _ _ _
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