Bon jovi Dry Country Printable Guitar ChordsArtist: Bon jovi Song : Dry Country Type : Guitar Chords Printed From The Tabworld.Com - Internet's largest tablature & lyrics archive http://www.thetabworld.com #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## DRY COUNTY - BON JOVI ===================== Transcribed by Steve Shulman - Johannesburg, South Africa. Please Note: This transcription was done by ear only - some of these chords may be way off. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- Any feedback / corrections are welcomed. Steve Shulman Johannesburg, South Africa shulman@odie.ee.wits.ac.za