Bon Jovi - Dry Countryadd

Intro:  Em  D   Bm  C
        Em  D   Bm  Am/C

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

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

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

        Em
Now the oil's gone
    Em/D
And the money's gone
    Em/A
All the jobs are gone
            C         D
still we're hangin' on down in

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

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

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

    Em
Now the oil's gone
    Em/D
And the money's gone
    Em/A
All the jobs are gone
         C       D
Still we carry on down in

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


(Guitar Solo)

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


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