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