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