Dry County Chords by Bon Jovi

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm C Bb Dm C Bb Dm C
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Bb Dm C Bb
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[Verse]
Dm     C                    Am         Bb  
Across the border they turn water into wine
Dm            C                
Some say it's the devil's blood
        G                  Dm  
They're squeezing from the vine
C                      
Some say it's a saviour
         Am       Bb             
In these hard and desperate times
    Dm           C           
You see it helps me to forget
           G            Dm 
That we're just born to die


[Intro]
C Bb Dm C Bb
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[Verse]
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
           C                      
And I knew nothing good comes easy
    Am          Bb            
All good things take some time
  Dm      C                 
I made my bed I'll lie in it
               G        
To die in it's the crime


[Chorus]
F                         
You can't help but prosper
          Bb                         
Where the streets are paved with gold
     C                                
They say the oil wells ran deeper here
Dm                  
Than anybody's known
    F                             
Now I packed up on my wife and kid
    Bb                         
And left them both back at home
    C                               
See there's nothing in this pay dirt
Bb                       
The ghosts are all I know
        Dm        
Now the oil's gone
        C           
And the money's gone
        Bm7          
All the jobs are gone
            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 these sins from off our hands
F            
In dry county
    C                  
The promise has run dry
Bb                
Where nobody cries
                                 Bb   
And no one's getting out of here alive
         Bb  
Not this time
Dm C Bb Dm C Am Bb
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[Verse]
       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 He'd be back back someday
  C                              
I hoped that he knew something as
   Am7        Am         
He drank that cup of wine
Bb       Dm       C                
I didn't have too good of a feeling
     G                    
As I head out to the night


[Chorus]
  F                     
I cursed the sky to open
  Bb                        
I begged the clouds for rain
  C                         
I prayed all night for water
         Dm                 
For this burning in my veins
   F                         
It was like my soul's on fire
      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
        C           
And the money's gone
        Bm7          
All the jobs are gone
            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 these sins from off our hands
F            
In dry county
C                      
The promise has run dry
Bb                
Where nobody cries
             F       C                
And no one's getting out of here alive


[Solo]
Bb Gm Bb F C Bb Am Bb
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[Break]
Am Bb Am Bb Dm Dsus4 Dm Dsus4
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[Inst]

[Solo]
Dm C Am7 Bb Dm C Am Bb
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Dm C Am Am7 Am Bb Dm C
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Am Bb Dm C Am Bb Dm C
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[Break]
Bb Gm Bb C Bb C Bb
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[Verse]
               C                                   Bb        
Man spends his whole life waiting praying for some big reward
             C                                       G   
But it seems sometimes the payoff leaves you feeling like
  Dm         
A dirty whore
           C                                      Bb          
If I could choose the way I'll die make it by the gun or knife
                C                        
Cause the other way there's too much pain
G                                        
Night after night after night after night


[Chorus]
F                 
Down in dry county
C                           
They're swimming in the sand
Bb                         
Praying for some holy water
Gm                      Bb           
To wash these sins from off our hands
F            
In dry county
    C               Bb 
The promise has run dry
             Bb   
Where nobody cries
C            F       C   Bb Gm    Bb  
And no one's getting out ■  ■  of here
F   C     
Dry county


[Solo]
Bb Gm Bb C Am Bb Dm C
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Bb Dm C Bb Dm C
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Bb Dm C Bb
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         Dm                 
No one's getting out of here
Dm        
Dry county
C 
No
Bb Dm C Bb Dm C Bb Dm
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[Outro]
C Am Bb
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[End]