Key: G majorDifficulty: Advanced
Intro 1
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Fm11
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Dbmaj9
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Dbmaj9
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Eb
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I looked out across
Verse 1
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Fm11
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Dbmaj9
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The river today
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I saw a city in the fog
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And an old church tower
Dbmaj9
Where the seagulls play
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Dbmaj9
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Fm11
Saw the sad shire horses
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Dbmaj9
Ab
Walking home in the sodium light
Fm11
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Dbmaj9
Ab
Two priests on the ferry
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Dbmaj9
Ab
October geese on a cold win- ter's night
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Chorus 1
Fm9
And all this time
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Dbadd9
The river flowed
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Endlessly
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Eb
To the sea
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Dbmaj9
Verse 2
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Two priests came round
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Dbmaj9
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Dbmaj9
Our house tonight
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One young, one old
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To offer prayers for the dying
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To serve the final rite
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Dbmaj9
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One to learn, one to teach
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Which way the cold wind blows
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Dbmaj9
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And fussing and flapping in priestly black
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Like a murder of crows
Chorus 2
Fm9
And all this time
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Dbadd9
The river flowed
Ebsus4
Eb
Endlessly
Ebsus4
Eb
To the sea
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Fm9
If I had my way
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I'd take a boat from the river
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Eb
And I'd bury the old man
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Eb
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I'd bury him at sea
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Dbmaj9
Verse 3
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Blessed are the poor
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For they shall inherit the Earth
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Better to be poor
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Than a fat man in the eye of a needle
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As these words were spoken I swear
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I hear the old man laughin
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Dbmaj9
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Fm11
What good is a used up world
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Dbmaj9
And how could it be worth having?
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Chorus 3
Fm9
And all this time
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Dbadd9
The river flowed
Ebsus4
Eb
Ebsus4
Endlessly
Eb
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Fm7
Ab
Like a silent tear
Fm9
All this time
Bb7
Dbadd9
The river flowed
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Eb
Father, if Jesus exists
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Eb
Then how come he never lived here?
Interlude 1
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Fm11
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Verse 4
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Ebmaj9
Teachers told us
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The Romans built this place
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They built a wall and a temple
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on the edge of the Empire Garrison town
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Ebmaj9
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They lived and they died
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They prayed to their gods
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But the stone gods
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Ebmaj9
did not make a sound
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Gm11
And their empire crumbled
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Ebmaj9
Till all that was left
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Gm11
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Were the stones the workmen found
Chorus 4
Gm9
And all this time
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Ebadd9
the river river flowed
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F
In the falling light
Fsus4
F
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Gm7
Bb
of a northern sun
Gm9
If I had my way
C7
Ebadd9
Take a boat from the river
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F
Men go crazy in congregations
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They only get better one by one
Outro 1
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Gm11
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Ebmaj9
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Gm11
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Ebmaj9
One by one
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Gm11
Bb/F
Ebmaj9
One by one, by one
Bb
Gm11
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One by one
Ebmaj9
Bb
Gm11
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I looked out across
Ebmaj9
Bb
Gm11
Bb/F
The river today
Ebmaj9
Bb
Saw a city in the fog
Gm11
Bb/F
And an old church tower
Ebmaj9
Bb
Gm11
Bb/F
Where the seagulls play
Ebmaj9
Bb
Gm11
Bb/F
Saw the sad shire horses walking home
Ebmaj9
Bb
In the sodium light
Gm11
Bb/F
Ebmaj9
[Fade out]
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