Sol       Mim9      Re4      Do     x3
Re4   Sol/Si      Re4

Sol/Si                Sol  Mim  Re
I looked out across
    Do9      Sol    Mim  Re  Do9
The river today,
          Sol                    Mim           Re
I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
          Do9        Sol  Mim  Re  Do
Where the seagulls play,
             Sol      Mim        Re        Do9
I saw the sad shire horses walking home
         Sol         Mim  Re  Do9
In the sodium light
                 Sol
I saw two priests on the ferry
Mim      Re            Do9 Sol          Mim  Re   Do9
October geese on a cold winter's night
    Mim9           Re/Fa#  Mim
And all this time,
    La7          La7sus4  Do9
The river flowed
   Re4 Re Re4  Re         Sol   Mim9  Sol/Re  Do
Endlessly         to the sea.

Sol/Si                   Mim Re Do9     Sol      Mim  Re  Do9
Two priests came round     our house tonight
    Sol              Mim                Re         Do9
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying
             Sol         Mim  Re  Do9
To serve the final rites,
             Sol       Mim   Re  Do9
One to learn, one to teach,
              Sol              Mim  Re  Do9
Which way the cold wind blows
Sol           Mim                   Re
Fussing and flapping in priestly black
       Do9     Sol    Mim  Re  Do9
Like a murder of crows
    Mim9           Re/Fa#  Mim
And all this time,
    La7          La7sus4  Do9
The river flowed
   Re4 Re Re4  Re         Sol   Mim9  Sol/Re  Do
Endlessly         to the sea.
   Solsus4 Mim9           La7                  La7sus4  Do9
If i had my way ,take a boat from the river
        Re4    Re   Re4    Re        Sol     Mim9  Sol/Re  Do
And i,d bury the old man  ,Id bury him at sea
                Sol/Si Mim9 Re Do9                        Mim9 Re  Do9
Blessed are the poor,     for they shall inherit the earth
Sol          Mim           Re              Do9        Sol Mim9  Re  Do9
Better to be poor  than a fat man in the eye of the needle
                   Sol             Mim9    Re  Do9
And as these words were spoken I swear  
              Sol        Mim9  Re  Do9
I hear he old man laughing,
      Sol                 Mim9        Re
"What good is a used up world, and how could it be 
Do9        Sol  Mim9  Re
Worth having"
    Mim9               La7          La7sus4  Do9
And all this time the river flowed
   Re4 Re Re4 Re      Sol          Mim9  Sol  Solsus4
Endlessly        like a silent tear
    Mim9               La7          La7sus4  Do9
And all this time the river flowed
        Re4    Re
Father, if Jesus exists,
Re4            Re           Sol
Then how come he never lived here.

Mim9    Sol/Re   Do9   Sol   Mim9   Sol/Re   Do9   Sol
Mim9    Sol/Re   Do9   Re   Sol/Si   Re     Sol/Si

                  La  Fa#m7   Mi  Re9
The teachers told us, 
           La               Fa#m7  Mi  Re9
The Romans built this place
                        La
They built a wall and a temple, 
Fa#m7        Mi             Re9    La    Fa#m7  Mi  Re9
And an edge of the empire garrison town,
               La          Fa#m7        Mi            Re9
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
        La              Fa#m7       Mi     Re9
But the stone gods did not make a sound
          La                 Fa#m7    Mi            Re9
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
                La      Fa#m7      Mi   Re9
Were the stones the workmen found

        Fa#m       Mi  Fa#m
And all this time
    Si7           Si7sus4  Re
The river flowed
   Misus4                La           Fa#m  La
In the falling light of northern sun
Lasus4    Fa#m
If I had my way
           Si7                 Si7sus4  Re
I'd take a boat from the river
Misus4
Men go crazy in congregations
Misus4
But they only get better one by one

La  Fa#m   Mi    Re
        La  Fa#m
One by one.
       La      Re
One by one by one
       La   Fa#m
One by one
         La   Re
I looked out across