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