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