[Intro]
G D/E G/D C (x4) D G/B
[Verse 1]
D G/B G Em7
I looked out across
D C G Em7 D
The river today,
C G Em7 D
saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
C G Em7 D
Where the seagulls play,
C G Em7 D C
saw the sad shire horses walking home
G D
In the sodium light
C G Em7
two priests on the ferry
D C G Em7 D
October geese on a cold winter's 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]
G Em7
Two priests came round
D C G Em7 D
our house tonight
C G Em7 D
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying
C G Em7 D
To serve the final rite,
C G Em7 D
One to learn, one to teach,
C G D C
Which way the cold wind blows
G Em7 D
And fussing and flapping in priestly black
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
A7sus A7 C
take a boat from the river
Dsus D Dsus D G D/E G/D C
and I'd bury the old man, I'd bury him at sea
[Verse 3]
G Em7
Blessed are the poor,
D C G Em7 D
for they shall inherit the earth
C G Em7 D C G Em7 D
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of the needle
C G Em7 D
As these words were spoken I swear
C G D
I hear The old man laughing,
C G Em7 D C G Em7 D
"What good is a used up world, and how could it be Worth having"
[Chorus]
Em
All this time
A C
the river flowed
Dsus D G D/E G
Endlessly like a silent tear
Em A
All this time the river flowed
C Dsus D
Father, if Jesus exists,
Dsus D G D/E
Then how come he never lived here.
G/D C G D/E
yeah yeah
G/D C G D/E
yeah yeah
G/D C D G/B D
yeah yeah
[Verse 4]
G/B A F#m7 E
Teachers told
D A F#m7 E
the Romans built this place
D A F#m7 E D A F#m7 E
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire Garrison town,
D A F#m7 E D
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
A F#m7 E
But the stone gods did not make a sound
D A F#m7 E D
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
D A
Were the stones the workmen found
[Chorus]
F#m
All this time
B D
The river flowed
Esus E A
in the falling light of a Northern sun
F#m
If I had my way
B7 D
take a boat from the river
Esus E
Men go crazy in congregations,
Esus E A E/F# Esus D
They only get better one by one
[Outro]
A E/F# Esus D
One by one
A E/F# Esus D
One by one by one
A E/F# Esus D
One by one
[Fade out]
A F#m7 E D
I looked out across...
