Am - G - Em - F (4x)
Am G Em F
1. Across the border they turn water into
wine,
Am G D Am
some say it’s the
devil’s blood they’re squeezing from the vine.
Am G Em F
Some say it’s a
saviour in these hard and desperate times,
Am G D Am
you
see it helps me to forget that we’re just born - - - to die.
+ Am - G - Em - F (2x)
Am G Em F
2. I came here like so many did, to find a better life,
Am G
D Am
to find my piece of easy street, to finally
be alive.
Am
G Em F
I knew nothing good comes easy, all good
things take some time,
Am G D
I made my bed, I‘ll lie in it,
to die in it’s a crime.
C F
You can‘t help
but prosper, where the streets are paved with gold,
G F
they say the oil
wells drained deeper here than anybody’s known.
C F
I packed up on my
wife and kid and left them both back home,
G
F
see there’s nothing in this paydirt,
the ghosts are all I know.
- Am - G
Now the oil’s gone, and the money’s gone,
- D - F
all
the jobs are gone, still we’re hangin‘ on down
in ....
C G
Dry County, they’re swimming
in the sand,
F
praying for some holy water,
Dm
F
to wash these sins from off our
hands, in
C G
F
Dry County, the promise has
run dry, where nobody cries,
Dm
Am
and no one’s getting out of here
alive.
+ Am - G - Em - F (2x)
Am
G Em F
3. In the blessed name of
Jesus, I heard a preacher say,
Am G
D Am
we’re all God’s
children, and he’d be back, back some day.
Am
G Em F
I hoped that he knew something as he drank
that cup of wine,
Am
G D
didn’t
have too good a feeling as I head out to
the night.
C F
I cursed the sky
to open, I begged the clouds for rain,
G Am
I prayed to God
for water for this burning in my veins.
C F
It was like my
soul’s on fire, and I had to watch the flames,
G F
all my dreams went up in ashes, and my
future blew away.
- Am - G
Now the oil’s gone, and the money’s gone,
- D - F
all
the jobs are gone, still
we’re hangin‘
on down in ...
C G
Dry County, they’re swimming
in the sand,
F
praying for some holy water,
Dm F
to wash these sins from off our
hands, in
C G F
Dry County, the promise has
run dry, where nobody cries,
Dm C
and no one’s getting out of here
alive.
+ C - G - F - Dm - C - G - F - - -
+ Em - F - Em - F - C - F -
Am - - -
+ Am - G - Am - G (4x) + Am - G - Em - F (5x)
+ Am - G - F - Dm - F - - - +
Am - G - Em - F (2x)
Am G Em F
4. Man spends his whole life waitin‘, prayin‘ for some big
reward,
Am G D
Am
it seems sometimes that payoff leaves you feeling like a dirty
whore.
Am G Em F
If I could choose the way I’ll
die, make it by the gun or knife,
Am G
’cause in another way, there’s
too much pain,
D
night after night after night after night.
C G
Dry County, they’re swimming
in the sand,
F
praying for some holy water,
Dm F
to wash these sins from off our
hands, in
C G F
Dry County, the promise has
run dry, where nobody cries,
G
and no one’s getting out of here.
C - G - F Dm F
+ Dry County, no one’s getting out of here.
C
- G - F - Dm - F
Dry Country. Oh !
+ Am - G - Em - F (4x) ….
(orig. = capo 5th; live = capo 4th) (Bon Jovi)