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