[Intro]

4x Dm  C  Am  Bb

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Dm         C
Across the border they turn
Am         Bb
Water into wine
Dm                C
Some say it's the devil's blood
        G                  Dm
They're squeezing from the vine
Dm              C
Some say it's a saviour
         Am                 Bb
In these hard and desperate times
    Dm             C
For me it helps me to forget
     G                     Dm  C  Am  Bb (2x)
That we're just born... to die

  Dm            C
I came here like so many did
   Am              Bb
To find the better life
   Dm               C
To find my piece of easy street
   G          Dm
To finally be alive
       Dm                 C
I knew nothing good comes easy
    Am                    Bb
All good things take some time
  Dm               C
I made my bed I'll lie in it
   G
To die in it's the crime

F
You can't help but prosper
            Bb
Where the streets are paved with gold
             C
They say the oil wells ran depper here
     Dm
Than anybody's known
      F
Now I packed up on my wife and kid
     Bb
And left them back at home
            C
Now there's nothing in this paydirt
    Bb
The ghosts are all I know

        Dm
Now the oil's gone
    Dm/C
And the money's gone
    Dm/G
All the jobs are gone
            Bb
Still we're hangin' on down in

F
Dry county
        C
They're swimming in the sand
        Bb
Praying for some holy water
   Gm                 Bb
To wash the sins from off our hands in
F
Dry county
    C
The promise has run dry
Bb
Where nobody cries
    Bb                           Dm  C  Am  Bb (2x)
And no one's getting out of here alive

       Dm              C
In the blessed name of Jesus
  Am               Bb
I heard a preacher say
     Dm               C
That we are all God's children
     G                 Dm
And that he'd be back, back someday
      Dm                 C
And I hoped that he knew something
      Am               Bb
As he drank his cup of wine
       Dm              C
Didn't have too good a feeling
     G
As I head out to the night

  F
I cursed the sky to open
  Bb
I begged the clouds for rain
  C
I prayed to God for water
         Dm
For this burning in my viens
       F
It was like my soul's on fire
      Bb
And I had to watch the flames
       C
All my dreams went up in ashes
       Bb
And my future blew away

    Dm
Now the oil's gone
    Dm/C
And the money's gone
    Dm/G
All the jobs are gone
           Bb
Still we carry on down in

F
Dry county
        C
They're swimming in the sand
        Bb
Praying for some holy water
   Gm                 Bb
To wash the sins from off our hands in
F
Dry county
    C
The promise has run dry
Bb
Where nobody cries
Bb
And no one's getting out of here alive

(Guitar Solo)

 F  C  Bb  Gm  Bb
 F  C  Bb  Bb
 Am  Bb
 Am  Bb
 Am  Bb  C  Dm

(Bridge)

8x Dm  C

(Second solo)

7x Dm  C  Am  Bb
    Dm  C  Bb  Gm  Bb

(Interlude)

2x Dm  C  Am  Bb

    Dm                      C
Men spend thier whole lives waiting
        Am           Bb
Praying for some big reward
   Dm
It seems sometimes
    C                 G
The payoff leaves you feeling
       Dm
Like a dirty whore
   Dm             C
If I could choose the way I'll die
        Am            Bb
Make it by the gun or knife
           Dm                C
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
G
Night after night after night


        F
Down in Dry county
        C
They're swimming in the sand
        Bb
Praying for some holy water
   Gm                 Bb
To wash the sins from off our hands in
F
Dry county
    C
The promise went dry
Bb
Where nobody cries
       C
And no one's getting out of here alive
F          C    Bb
Dry County
Gm               Bb
For no one... getting out of here
F            C         Bb
Dry County
Gm            Bb
No

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 Dm  C  Am  Bb