All This Time Chords by Sting

_ We plan to do a song called All This Time, which is really about my father, who left us a long time ago.
So I'm going to sing it for him.
_ _ Okay, Manu.
Manu Katcher.
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
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_ [C] _ [Gm] _ _ [C] looked [G] out across _ _ _ _ [C] the river [G] today
_ _ Saw [Am] _ [Bb] a city in the fog and an old church [Am] tower where [Bb] the seagulls bleat
_ _ _ _ _ [Gm] Saw a sad child, horses walking on _ [G] a mausoleum light
_ [Fm] _ _ _ [Gm] Two priests on a ferry, October geese on a cold winter's night
[G] _ _ All [Em] this time _ _ _ _ [A] the river _ _ [C] flowed _ [D] in the sea
_ _ _ To [Gm] the [Bb] sea
_ _ Two _ _ [Gm] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ priests [G] came around _ [F] our [Gm] _ _ house tonight
_ _ _ _ One young, one old to offer prayers for the dying to [C] serve the final rites
_ [Db] _ [C] _ [Dm] One to [Bb] learn, one to teach _ [C] which [Bb] way the cold wind blows
[F] _ _ _ [Dm] Fussing and flapping and priests leave black [C] like a murderer [G] crows
_ _ _ All this [Em] _
time _ _ _ _ [A] the river _ _ [C] _ flowed [D] in the sea
_ To [G] the sea
_ _ If I [Em] had my way
_ _ _ _ [A] I'd take a boat from the river
[C] _ And [D] I'd bury the old man
_ _ I'd bury [G] him at sea _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Em] _ [Bb] Blessed [F] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ are the poor _
_ For _ [G] they shall inherit the _ _ earth
_ It's better to be poor than be a fat man in the eye of a [Fm] needle
[Bb] _
[B] As _ _ _ _ [Gm] his words are spoken, I swear
_ _ I hear the old man [C] laughing
_ [Bb] What _ _ good is a used up world and how could it be worth [G] having _
All _ _ this [Em] time
_ _ _ _ _ [A] The river _ [C] _ flowed _ [D] in the sea
_ _ Like [G] a silent tear
_ _ _ All _ [Em] this time
_ _ _ _ [A] The river _ [C] flowed
The father [D] of Jesus exists and how come he never [G] lives _
_ [Bb] Yeah, _ _ [G] yeah, yeah
_ Yeah, _ _ yeah, [C] yeah
_ [Dm] Yeah, [F] _ [D] yeah, yeah
[G] _ _ [D] _ [G] Jesus [A] told us
_ _ _ Rome was filled with space
_ Built from wood and a temple and an edge of the empire carousel town _
_ _ _ Then they died
They prayed to their gods but some god did not make a [D] sound
[A] And the empire crumbled to all that [D] was left
Were [A] a school of workmen found
All this [Gbm] time _ _
_ _ _ [B] The river [D] flowed _ _ _ [E] in the sea _
To [A] the sea _ _ _
If I had my [Gbm] way _ _
_ _ [B] I'd take a boat from the [D] river
_ Men go [E] crazy in congregations, they only get better
Go [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [E] crazy in congregations, they only get
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [C] Yeah, yeah, [A] yeah _ _ _
Yeah, yeah, yeah
_ [Gbm] _ [C] Yeah, [G] yeah, [A] yeah
_ [Eb] _ _ [Am]
[D] Yeah, [A] yeah, yeah
_ [B] _ [Am] _
Yeah, yeah, yeah
_ _ [Gbm] _ [A] Yeah, [D] yeah, [Am] yeah
[Em] _ [Am] _ Yeah, [E] yeah, [D] _ [A] yeah
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All [A] this _ _ time _ _
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