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