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