Standard (EADGBE)

Little Annie Vickers is boarding up windows

And a rows all get stranded on a silos

 Hey, there Annie, don't even think it

So much water and you can't even drink it

Well, maybe by Christmas they'll dig up the rows

 Take whatever you can, girl, and leave the rest for the crows

 Leave the rest for the crows

 Living in Crawford for fifteen years

Nothing much ever happens round here

 And, no one believed the water would come

 Til the sky grew dark and it swallowed the sun

 And it rained for forty-two nights and forty-two days

 And everything that we love is floating away

(Chorus)

How long til our dreams run dry

 Don't know but we're staying

On our knees we raise our eyes

 Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

 Mrs. Wilson sits with an insurance adjuster

 Big city boy, she never did trust him

 Have you been getting the letters I'm sending

 Cause the preacher swears that the world is ending

 Well, if there's a way out, wish someone would show us

 We keep looking around here for some modern day Moses

(Repeat Chorus)

How long til our dreams run dry

 Don't know but we're staying

On our knees we raise our eyes

 Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

 We will dig in our heels hard as we can

 But the backyard looks like the Rio Grande

 And I wonder will it wash us clean or wash us away

(Repeat Chorus)

How long til our dreams run dry

 Don't know but we're staying

On our knees we raise our eyes

 Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

(Repeat Chorus)

 (How long til our dreams run dry)

 (Don't know but we're staying)

On our knees we raise our eyes

 Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

One blue sky