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Intro REm DO LAm SIb
REm DO LAm SOLm/SIb
REm DO
Across the border they turn
LAm SOL
Water into wine
REm DO
Some say it's the devil's blood
SOL REm
They're squeezing from the vine
REm DO
Some say it's a saviour
LAm SIb
In these hard and desperate times
REm DO
For me it helps me to forget
SOL REm DO LAm SIb
That we're just born... to die
REm DO
I came here like so many did
LAm SIb
To find the better life
REm DO
To find my piece of easy street
SOL REm
To finally be alive
REm DO
I knew nothing good comes easy
LAm SOL
All good things take some time
REm DO
I made my bed I'll lie in it
SOL REm
To die in it's the crime
FA
You can't help but prosper
SOLm/SIb
Where the streets are paved with gold
DO
they say the oil wells ran depper here
SIb/RE
Than anybody's known
FA
Now I packed up on my wife and kid
SOLm/SIb
And left them back at home
DO
Now there's nothing in this paydirt
SIb
The ghosts are all I know
REm
Now the oil's gone
REm/DO
And the money's gone
REm/SOL
All the jobs are gone
SIb DO
still we're hangin' on down in
FA
Dry county
DO
They're swimming in the sand
SIb
Praying for some holy water
SOLm SIb
to wash the sins from off our hands in
FA
Dry county
DO
The promise has run dry
SIb
Where nobody cries
SIb REm DO LAm SIb
And no one's getting out of here alive
REm DO
In the blessed name of Jesus
LAm SIb
I heard a preacher say
REm DO
That we are all God's children
SOL REm
And that he'd be back, back someday
REm DO
And I hoped that he knew something
LAm SIb
As he drank his cup of wine
REm DO
Didn't have too good a feeling
SOL REm
As I head out to the night
FA
I cursed the sky to open
SOLm/SIb
I begged the clouds for rain
DO
I prayed to God for water
SIb/RE
For this burning in my viens
FA
It was like my soul's on fire
SOLm/SIb
And I had to watch the flames
DO
All my dreams went up in ashes
SIb
And my future blew away
REm
Now the oil's gone
REm/DO
And the money's gone
REm/SOL
All the jobs are gone
SIb DO
Still we carry on down in
FA
Dry county
DO
They're swimming in the sand
SIb
Praying for some holy water
SOLm SIb
to wash the sins from off our hands in
FA
Dry county
DO
The promise has run dry
SIb
Where nobody cries
SIb FA
And no one's getting out of here alive
(Guitar Solo)
REm DO
Men spend thier whole lives waiting
LAm SIb
Praying for some big reward
REm
It seems sometimes
DO SOL
The payoff leaves you feeling
REm
Like a dirty whore
REm DO
If I could choose the way I'll die
LAm SIb
Make it by the gun or knife
REm DO
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
SOL
Night after night after night
FA
Down in Dry county
DO
They're swimming in the sand
SIb
Praying for some holy water
SOLm SIb
to wash the sins from off our hands in
FA
Dry county
DO
The promise has run dry
SIb
Where nobody cries
SIb REm DO LAm SIb
And no one's getting out of here alive
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