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