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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

-first letter-A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

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	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	aliv	e

	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 t	hat 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

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Any feedback / corrections are welcomed.

Steve Shulman

Johannesburg, South Africa

shulman@odie.ee.wits.ac.za