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DRY COUNTY - BON JOVI

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Transcribed by Steve Shulman - Johannesburg, South Africa.



Please Note: This transcription was done by ear only - 

             some of these chords may be way off.



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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





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Any feedback / corrections are welcomed.



Steve Shulman 

Johannesburg, South Africa

shulman@odie.ee.wits.ac.za