A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

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Song Title: A Thousand Years
        by: Christina Perri
Capo on 3rd fret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWSs5qXeiko

Chords: (Relat
      
e|--3--|--3--|
B|--3--|--3--|
G|--0--|--0--|
D|--2--|--0--|
A|--3--|--2--|
E|--x--|--x--|

ive to capo)
       
--3--|--3--|--
--3--|--3--|--
--0--|--2--|--
--2--|--0--|--
--2--|--0--|--
--0--|--2--|--

         
3--|--0--|--0-
3--|--1--|--0-
0--|--2--|--0-
0--|--2--|--2-
2--|--0--|--2-
3--|--x--|--0-

       
-|--2--|--3--|
-|--3--|--3--|
-|--2--|--2--|
-|--0--|--0--|
-|--x--|--x--|
-|--x--|--x--|

Intro:
e|-7---7---7--
B|-8---8---8--
G|------------
D|------------
A|------------
E|------------

-5---7---7---7
-7---5---5---5
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---5---8---8--
---3---8---8--
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-8-------7---7
-8---8---8---8
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---5---------|
---7---8-7---|
-----------7\|  \ = slide down
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Verse:
   Cadd9 (x4) 
e|------------
B|----------3-
G|----0-------
D|------------
A|-3-----3----
E|------------

          G/B 
--------|-----
--------|-----
----0---|----0
--------|-----
-3------|-2---
--------|-----

(x4)          
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-----3--------
-----------0--
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--2-----2-----
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   Em7 (x2)
-|------------
-|----------3-
-|----0-------
-|------------
-|------------
-|-0-----0----

--------|
--------|
----0---|
--------|
--------|
-0------|

          
e|------------
B|----------3-
G|----0-------
D|------------
A|------------
E|-2-----2----

         
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----0-------0-
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--------------
-2-------3----

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----3---------
----------0---
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-3-----3------

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[Intro]

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[Verse 1]


Heart beats fa

st
           
Colors and pro

mises
           
How to be brav

e
          
How can I love

          
 when I'm afra


id to fall
              
But watching y

   
ou stand alone
           
All of my doub

           
t suddenly goe

#         
s away somehow
            
One step clo -

 
 ser


[Chorus]

             
I have died ev

              
ery day waitin

  
g for you
           
Darling, don't

              
 be afraid, I 

      
have loved you
      
For a thousand

 years
              
I'll love you 

         
for a thousand

 
 more


 ...


[Verse 2]


Time stands st

ill
          
Beauty in all 

she is
          
I will be brav

e
           
I will not let

#        
 anything take


 away
              
What's standin

     
g in front of 

me
      
Every breath
          
Every hour has

        
 come to this
            
One step clo -

 
 ser


[Chorus]

             
I have died ev

              
ery day waitin

  
g for you
           
Darling, don't

              
 be afraid, I 

      
have loved you
      
For a thousand

 years
              
I'll love you 

         
for a thousand

 
 more

             
And all along 

              
I believed I w

     
ould find you

Time has broug

ht your heart 

to me
             
I have loved y

         
ou for a thous

and years
              
I'll love you 

         
for a thousand

 
 more


[Instrumental]

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[Bridge]

          
   One step cl

    
o - ser
          
   One step cl

    
o - ser


[Chorus]

             
I have died ev

              
ery day waitin

  
g for you
           
Darling, don't

              
 be afraid, I 

      
have loved you
      
For a thousand

 years
              
I'll love you 

         
for a thousand

 
 more

             
And all along 

              
I believed I w

      
ould find you

Time has broug

ht your heart 

to me
             
I have loved y

         
ou for a thous

and years
              
I'll love you 

         
for a thousand

 
 more


[Outro]

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