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