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