All This Time

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[Verse 1]
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I looked out across
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The river today,
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 saw a city in the fog and an 
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old church tower
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Where the seagulls play,
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 saw the sad shire horses 
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walking home
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In the sodium light
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  two priests on the ferry
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October geese on a cold winter's 
       Em7  D
night

[Chorus]
   Em
All this time,
     A            C
The river flowed
     Dsus D       G  D/E  G/D C
Endlessly to the sea.

[Verse 2]
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Two priests came round
D  C          G     Em7 D
  our house tonight
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  One young, one old, to offer 
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prayers for the dying
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To serve the final rite,
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 One to learn, one to teach,
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 Which way the cold wind blows
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And fussing and flapping in 
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priestly black
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                   G   Em7  D
Like a murder of crows

[Chorus]
        Em
And all this time,
    A            C
The river flowed
    Dsus   D      G
Endlessly to the sea.
        Em
If I had my way
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take a boat from the river
        Dsus          D  Dsus  D
and I'd bury the old man, I'd 
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bury him at sea * * * | * * * *|

[Verse 3]
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Blessed are the poor,
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  for they shall inherit the 
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earth
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  Better to be poor than a fat 
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man in the eye of the needle
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 As these words were spoken I 
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swear
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 I hear The old man laughing,
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 "What good is a used up world, 
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and how could it be Worth having"
G  Em7  D


[Chorus]
        Em
All this time
    A           C
the river flowed
    Dsus D         G         D/E G
Endlessly like a silent tear
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All this time the river flowed
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 Father, if Jesus exists,
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Then how come he never lived here.
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yeah * *| yeah * * |
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yeah * *| yeah * *| * *

[Verse 4]
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  Teachers told
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 the Romans built this place
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 They built a wall and a 
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temple, an edge of the empire 
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Garrison town,
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 They lived and they died, they 
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prayed to their gods
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But the stone gods did not make a 
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sound
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 And their empire crumbled, 'til
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 all that was left
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 Were the stones the workmen found

[Chorus]
    F#m
All this time
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The river flowed
           Esus     E           A
in the falling light of a Northern 
sun
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If I had my way
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take a boat from the river
       Esus           E
Men go crazy in congregations,
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They only get better one by one
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[Other]
        A  E/F#  Esus D
One by one
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One by one by one
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One by one

[Fade out]
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I looked out across...