Intro: D#m C# A#m B D#m C# A#m B Verse: D#m C# Across the border they turn A#m B Water into wine D#m C# Some say itʼs the devilʼs blood G# Theyʼre squeezing from the vine D#m C# Some say itʼs a saviour A#m B In these hard and desperate times D#m C# For me it helps me to forget G# D#m C# A#m B That weʼre just born... to die D#m C# I came here like so many did A#m B To find the better life D#m C# To find my piece of easy street G# To finally be alive D#m C# I knew nothing good comes easy A#m G# All good things take some time D#m C# I made my bed Iʼll lie in it G# D#m To die in itʼs the crime Bridge: F# You canʼt help but prosper G#m Where the streets are paved with gold C# they say the oil wells ran depper here B Than anybodyʼs known F# Now I packed up on my wife and kid G#m And left them back at home C# Now thereʼs nothing in this paydirt B The ghosts are all I know D#m Now the oilʼs gone D#m And the moneyʼs gone D#m All the jobs are gone B C# still weʼre hanginʼ on down in Chorus: F# Dry county C# Theyʼre swimming in the sand B Praying for some holy water G#m B to wash the sins from off our hands in F# Dry county C# The promise has run dry B Where nobody cries B D#m C# A#m B And no oneʼs getting out of here alive D#m C# In the blessed name of Jesus A#m B I heard a preacher say D#m C# That we are all Godʼs children G# D#m And that heʼd be back, back someday D#m C# And I hoped that he knew something A#m B As he drank his cup of wine D#m C# Didnʼt have too good a feeling G# D#m As I head out to the night F# I cursed the sky to open G#m I begged the clouds for rain C# I prayed to God for water B For this burning in my viens F# It was like my soulʼs on fire G#m And I had to watch the flames C# All my dreams went up in ashes B And my future blew away D#m Now the oilʼs gone D#m And the moneyʼs gone D#m All the jobs are gone B C# Still we carry on down in F# Dry county C# Theyʼre swimming in the sand B Praying for some holy water G#m B to wash the sins from off our hands in F# Dry county C# The promise has run dry B Where nobody cries B F# And no oneʼs getting out of here alive D#m C# Men spend their whole lives waiting A#m B Praying for their big reward D#m but It seems sometimes C# G# The payoff leaves you feeling D#m Like a dirty whore D#m C# If I could choose the way Iʼll die A#m B Make it by the gun or knife D#m C# ʼCause the other way thereʼs too much pain G# Night after night after night F# Down in Dry county C# Theyʼre swimming in the sand B Praying for some holy water G#m B to wash the sins from off our hands in F# Dry county C# The promise has run dry B Where nobody cries B D#m C# A#m B And no oneʼs getting out of here alive
