After All This Time Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays407

After All This Time by Rodney Crowell is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, Am, F, G, Em and Dm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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C
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16
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  			C   | 
 
C              |      |             |  
    There were trains    And we out-run `em. 
 
c, b,         Am    |             | 
   There were songs    And we out-sung `em. 
 
a, g,         F     |     G    |     C     |   G 
   There were brigh...ter days never ending 
 
a, b,        C    |              | 
   There was time    And we were burnin' 
 
c, b,         Am     |             | 
   There were rhymes   And we were learnin' 
 
a, g,        F   |      G    |                C    |  |  | 
   There was all... the love two hearts could hold 
 
 
    F              |     |  |        Em           |      |   | 
And after all this time...    You're always on my mind 
 
    F             |                  Dm                | 
Hey I could never let it end  `Cause my heart takes so long to mend 
 
G                         F             Dm                    G 
The dream that keeps your hopes alive   The lonely nights you hold inside 
 
    F              |             G            | 
And after all this time   You're always on my mind 
 
G                C    |    | 
    I still want you 
 
 
C             |    |            | 
    There was rain   That we outlasted 
 
c, b,        Am   |           | 
   There was pain   But we go past it 
 
a, g,         F    |       G     |              C      |   G 
   There were last... good-byes... still left unspoken 
 
a, b,         C     |               | 
   There were ways... I should have thrilled you 
 
c, b,          Am      |                 | 
    There were days... when I could have killed you 
 
a, g,          F    |   G      |             C      |   |   | 
   Your're the only...  love...  my life has known 
 
 
    F              |     |  |          Em           |     |    | 
And after all this time...     Your're always on my mind 
 
    F             |              Dm                | 
Hey I could never let you go   A broken heart that heals so slow 
 
G                    F             Dm                     G 
Could never beat for someone new   While you're alive and I am too 
 
    F              |             G            | 
And after all this time   You're always on my mind 
 
G                C    |   | 
    I still miss you 
 
 
(Instrumental) 
 
 
    F             |                  Dm                |    
And I could never let it in   'Cause my heart takes so long to mend 
 
G                         F             Dm                    G 
The dream that keeps your hopes alive   The lonely nights you hold inside 
 
    F              |               G            | 
And after all this time    Your're always on my mind 
 
G               C     |   | 
   I still want you 
 
    F              |             G            | 
Hey after all this time  Your're always on my mind 
 
G                C    |   | 
    I still love you. 
 
 
Submitted by: 
 
Lynn R. Francis 
[email protected] 
Texas State Technical College 
Network Services 
 
 

    	

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