Bon Jovi - Dry Countryadd

Intro:  C#m  B   G#m  A
        C#m  B   G#m  F#m/A

C#m         B
Across the border they turn
G#m         F#
Water into wine
C#m                B
Some say it's the devil's blood
        F#                  C#m
They're squeezing from the vine
C#m              B
Some say it's a saviour
         G#m                 A
In these hard and desperate times
    C#m             B
For me it helps me to forget
     F#                     C#m  B  G#m  A 
That we're just born... to die

  C#m            B
I came here like so many did
   G#m              A
To find the better life
   C#m               B
To find my piece of easy street
   F#          C#m
To finally be alive
       C#m                 B 
I knew nothing good comes easy
    G#m                    F#
All good things take some time
  C#m               B
I made my bed I'll lie in it
   F#               C#m
To die in it's the crime

E
You can't help but prosper
          F#m/A
Where the streets are paved with gold
             B
they say the oil wells ran depper here
     A/C#
Than anybody's known
      E 
Now I packed up on my wife and kid
    F#m/A
And left them back at home
            B
Now there's nothing in this paydirt
    A
The ghosts are all I know

        C#m
Now the oil's gone
    C#m/B
And the money's gone
    C#m/F#
All the jobs are gone
            A         B
still we're hangin' on down in

E   
Dry county
        B
They're swimming in the sand
        A
Praying for some holy water
   F#m                 A
to wash the sins from off our hands in
E
Dry county
    B
The promise has run dry
A
Where nobody cries
    A                           C#m  B  G#m  A 
And no one's getting out of here alive

       C#m              B
In the blessed name of Jesus
  G#m               A
I heard a preacher say
     C#m               B
That we are all God's children
     F#                 C#m
And that he'd be back, back someday
      C#m                 B
And I hoped that he knew something 
      G#m               A
As he drank his cup of wine
       C#m              B
Didn't have too good a feeling 
     F#               C#m
As I head out to the night

  E
I cursed the sky to open
  F#m/A
I begged the clouds for rain
  B
I prayed to God for water
         A/C#
For this burning in my viens
       E
It was like my soul's on fire
      F#m/A
And I had to watch the flames
       B
All my dreams went up in ashes
       A
And my future blew away

    C#m
Now the oil's gone
    C#m/B
And the money's gone
    C#m/F#
All the jobs are gone
         A       B
Still we carry on down in

E   
Dry county
        B
They're swimming in the sand
        A
Praying for some holy water
   F#m                 A
to wash the sins from off our hands in
E
Dry county
    B
The promise has run dry
A
Where nobody cries
A                               E
And no one's getting out of here alive


(Guitar Solo)

    C#m                      B
Men spend thier whole lives waiting
        G#m           A
Praying for some big reward
   C#m
It seems sometimes
    B                 F#
The payoff leaves you feeling
       C#m
Like a dirty whore
   C#m             B
If I could choose the way I'll die
        G#m            A
Make it by the gun or knife
           C#m                B
'Cause the other way there's too much pain
F#
Night after night after night


        E   
Down in Dry county
        B
They're swimming in the sand
        A
Praying for some holy water
   F#m                 A
to wash the sins from off our hands in
E
Dry county
    B
The promise has run dry
A
Where nobody cries
A                               C#m   B   G#m  A
And no one's getting out of here alive