Tablature all this time - Sting

          



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  Subject: CRD: All This Time - Sting

  

  Posted by: sd021@diana.di.fc.ul.pt (SDII-Grupo_sd021)

  Subject: CRD: Sting: All This Time

  

  

  		All This Time  

  	     	   Sting  

  

       	   from "The Soul Cages" album

  

  

  

  

  G       Em      D      C (x4)

  

  

  	       G     Em  D

  I looked out across

      C       G    Em  D  C

  The river today,

       	  G                    Em           D

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

  	  C              G  Em  D  C

  Where the seagulls play,

             G        Em      D            C

  I saw the sad shire horses walking home

  	G            Em  D  C

  In the sodium light

            G

  I saw two priests on the ferry

   Em       D         C              G    Em  D

  October geese on a cold winter's night

  

  

          Em         D/F#  Em

  And all this time,

      A            C

  The river flowed

      D             G    Em  G  D

  Endlessly to the sea.

  

  

  ( Verses are just G-Em-D-C repeated;

    Chorus is as above, repeated till end of chorus )

  

  

  Two priests came round our house tonight

  One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying

  To serve the final rite,

  One to learn, one to teach,

  Which way the cold wind blows

  Fussing and flapping in priestly black

  Like a murder of crows

  

  

  Chorus:

  And all this time, the river flowed

  Endlessly to the sea

  If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river

  And I'd bury the old man,

  I'd bury him at sea

  

  

  Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth

  Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of the needle

  And as these words were spoken I swear I hear

  The old man laughing,

  "What good is a used up world, and how could it be

  Worth having"

  

  

  Chorus:

  And all this time the river flowed

  Endlessly like a silent tear

  And all this time the river flowed

  Father, if Jesus exist,

  Then how come he never lived here.

  

  

  (Now switch key to A - thus this verse is A-F#m-E-D)

  

  The teachers told us, the Romans built this place

  They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire

  Garrison town,

  They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods

  But the stone gods did not make a sound

  And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left

  Were the stones the workmen found

  

  

  Chorus:

          F#m        E  F#m

  And all this time

      B             D

  The river flowed

    E              A    F#m  A

  Endlessly to the sea

      F#m          E  F#m

  If I had my way

             B                D

  I'd take a boat from the river

         E

  Men go crazy in congregations

  

  But they only get better

  One by one

  

  

  (repeat A-F#m-E-D progression and fade)

  

  One by one

  One by one by one

  One by one

  

  I looked out across...  { Chorus: All this time... }

  

  

  

  

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  |                          |  "You see a city in the desert lies             |

  |       Luis Ferreira      |   The vanity of an ancient king                 |

  |                          |   But the city lies on broken pieces            |

  |   sd021@diana.fc.ul.pt   |   Where the wind howls and the vultures sing"   |

  |                          |           Sting  -  The Soul Cages              |

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