Intro
Em D Bm C
Em D Bm Am/C
[Verse 1]
Em D
Across the border they turn
Bm C
Water into wine
Em D
Some say it's the devil's blood
A
They're squeezing from the vine
Em D
Some say it's a saviour
Bm C
In these hard and desperate times
Em D
For me it helps me to forget
A Em D Bm C
That we're just born... to die
Em D
I came here like so many did
Bm C
To find the better life
Em D
To find my piece of easy street
A
To finally be alive
Em D
I knew nothing good comes easy
Bm A
All good things take some time
Em D
I made my bed I'll lie in it
A Em
To die in it's the crime
G
You can't help but prosper
Am
Where the streets are paved with gold
D
they say the oil wells ran depper here
C
Than anybody's known
G
Now I packed up on my wife and kid
Am
And left them back at home
D
Now there's nothing in this paydirt
C
The ghosts are all I know
Em
Now the oil's gone
Em/D
And the money's gone
Em/A
All the jobs are gone
C D
still we're hangin' on down in
[Chorus]
G
Dry county
D
They're swimming in the sand
C
Praying for some holy water
Am C
to wash the sins from off our hands in
G
Dry county
D
The promise has run dry
C
Where nobody cries
C Em D Bm C
And no one's getting out of here alive
[Verse 2]
Em D
In the blessed name of Jesus
Bm C
I heard a preacher say
Em D
That we are all God's children
A Em
And that he'd be back, back someday
Em D
And I hoped that he knew something
Bm C
As he drank his cup of wine
Em D
Didn't have too good a feeling
A Em
As I head out to the night
G
I cursed the sky to open
Am
I begged the clouds for rain
D
I prayed to God for water
C
For this burning in my viens
G
It was like my soul's on fire
Am
And I had to watch the flames
D
All my dreams went up in ashes
C
And my future blew away
Em
Now the oil's gone
Em
And the money's gone
Em
All the jobs are gone
C D
Still we carry on down in
[Chorus]
G
Dry county
D
They're swimming in the sand
C
Praying for some holy water
Am C
to wash the sins from off our hands in
G
Dry county
D
The promise has run dry
C
Where nobody cries
C G
And no one's getting out of here alive
[Verse 3]
Em D
Men spend their whole lives waiting
Bm C
Praying for their big reward
Em
but It seems sometimes
D A
The payoff leaves you feeling
Em
Like a dirty whore
Em D
If I could choose the way I'll die
Bm C
Make it by the gun or knife
Em D
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
A
Night after night after night
[Chorus]
G
Down in Dry county
D
They're swimming in the sand
C
Praying for some holy water
Am C
to wash the sins from off our hands in
G
Dry county
D
The promise has run dry
C
Where nobody cries
C Em D Bm C
And no one's getting out of here alive