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