Sting – All This Time (Guitar Live)

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Sting - All This Time (Live at Villa Il Palagio 2001) from the live album "All This Time". This version has a different jazzy rythm and slightly different chords compared to the original. [Intro] G7#9 Dm C [Verse 1]
G7#9       Dm     C
I looked out across

G7#9       Dm     C
The river today,

G7#9
I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower

G7#9       Dm     C  G7#9
Where the seagulls play,

G7#9                                      Dm  C  G7#9
I saw the sad shire horses walking home

G7#9                 Dm     C   G7#9
In the sodium light

G7#9
I saw two priests on the ferry

G7#9                    Dm     C   G7#9
October geese on a cold winter's night
[Chorus]
             Em9         
And all this time,

    A7           Cadd9
The river flowed

   Dsus4 D Dsus4  D         G7#9
Endlessly         to the sea.
[Verse 2]
G7#9                     Dm     C      G7#9
Two priests came round     our house tonight

    G7#9                       Dm    C
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying

             G7#9          Dm   C
To serve the final rites,

       G7#9                 Dm   C
One to learn, one to teach,

              G7#9             Dm   C
Which way the cold wind blows

G7#9                               Dm   C
Fussing and flapping in priestly black

                 G7#9    
Like a murder of crows
[Chorus]
    Em9           
And all this time,

    A7            Cadd9
The river flowed

   Dsus4       D         G   
Endlessly         to the sea.

     Em9                A7                  Cadd9
If i had my way ,take a boat from the river

        Dsus4    D                        G7#9     
And i,d bury the old man  ,Id bury him at sea
G7#9 Dm C G7#9 G7#9 Dm C G7#9 [Verse 3]
G7#9                         Dm     C      G7#9            Dm     C  
Blessed are the poor,     for they shall inherit the earth

G7#9                          Dm         C                G7#9  Dm  C
Better to be poor  than a fat man in the eye of the needle

             G7#9                        Dm   C
And as these words were spoken I swear

          G7#9                Dm  C
I hear he old man laughing,

      G7#9                                      Dm           C    G7#9
"What good is a used up world, and how could it be worth having"
[Chorus]
Em9               A7sus4  Cadd9
All this time the river flowed

   Dsus4  D             G         
Endlessly        like a silent tear

    Em9               A7           Cadd9
And all this time the river flowed

        Dsus4    D
Father, if Jesus exists,

Dsus4            D           G7#9
Then how come he never lived here.
[Link]
G7#9    Dm    C      G7#9
        Yea   yea    yea

G7#9    Dm    C      G7#9
        Yea   yea    yea
G7#9 Dm C D D/B D D/B [Bridge]
                  A    Dadd9/A
The teachers told us,

           A               Dadd9/A
The Romans built this place

             A
They built a wall and a temple,

                   Dadd9/A           A    Dadd9/A
And an edge of the empire garrison town,

               A                               Dadd9/A
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods

        A                              Dadd9/A
But the stone gods did not make a sound

          A                                  Dadd9/A
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left

         A                         Dadd9/A
Were the stones the workmen found
[Chorus]
        F#m
And all this time

    B7            Dadd9
The river flowed

   Esus4   E        A
Endlessly    to the sea

     F#m
If I had my way

           B7                  D9
I'd take a boat from the river

Esus4
Men go crazy in congregations, but they only get better one by one

B7    D
Ye-he-he

Esus4                                                            A7#9
Men go crazy in congregations, but they only get better one by one
[Outro]
A7#9  Em     D      A7#9
    Yea yea yea

A7#9  Em     D      A7#9
    Yea yea yea

A7#9  Em     D      A7#9
    Yea yea yea

A7#9  Em     D      A7#9
    Yea yea yea

D  A/C# Bm  A
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