Dry County
Intro: Dm C Am Bb
Dm C Am Gm/Bb
Dm
C
Across the border they turn
Am
G
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
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
G
All good things take some time
Dm
C
I made my bed I'll lie in
it
G
Dm
To die in it's the crime
F
You can't help but prosper
Gm/Bb
Where the streets are paved
with gold
C
they say the oil wells ran
depper here
Bb/D
Than anybody's known
F
Now I packed up on my wife
and kid
Gm/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
C
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
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
Dm
As I head out to the night
F
I cursed the sky to open
Gm/Bb
I begged the clouds for
rain
C
I prayed to God for water
Bb/D
For this burning in my
viens
F
It was like my soul's on
fire
Gm/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 C
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
F
And no one's getting out of
here alive
(Guitar Solo)
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 has run dry
Bb
Where nobody cries
Bb
Dm C
Am Bb
And no one's getting out of
here alive