Key: G major•
Intro 1
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Em
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D
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Verse 1
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the river today
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And an old church tower where
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the seagulls play
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Saw the sad shire horses walking home
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In the sodium light
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Two priests on a ferry
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October geese on a cold
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winter's night
Verse 2
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The river flowed
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Verse 3
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Two priests came 'round
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our house tonight
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To offer prayers for the dying,
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to serve the final rites
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One to learn, one to teach
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Which way the cold wind blows
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In priestly black like a
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Verse 4
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The river flowed
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Verse 5
Asus4
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I'd take a boat from the river
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I'd bury him at sea
Verse 6
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poor
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For they shall inherit the earth
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Than be a fat man in the
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eye of a needle
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As these words were spoken,
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I 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?
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Verse 7
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The river flowed
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Endlessly like a silent tear
Verse 8
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The river flowed
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Then how come He never lives here?
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Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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F#m
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us the Romans
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built this place
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And an edge of the empire
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garrison town
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They prayed to their gods
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But the stone gods did not make a sound
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And their empire crumbled
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till all that was left
Verse 10
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The river flowed
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Esus4
In the falling light
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Of a northern sun
Verse 11
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Bsus4
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I'd take a boat from the river
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Men go crazy in congregations
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F#m
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(all this time)
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One by one, by one
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One by one
Verse 12
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I looked out across the river today
I saw a city in the fog
And an old church tower
where the seagulls play
Two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night
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