C                                         C9
He hasn't seen a drop of rain for months it seems
F                                         F9
Rollin' river is nothing but a trickling stream
     C                               C9
The crops are dying in the harsh sunlight
F                          F9                    
The dust on his tongue is dry
    Am                               F
The fatted calf is down to skin and bones
         C  C9  C
We carry on

  C                                    C9
Alone in the city and she's only seventeen
         F                                    F9
The boy left her black and blue in the street so mean
      C                                         C9
Just twelve weeks along and she's got a life inside
F                               F9
Says she's never ever felt so alone
Am                                   F
She walks in the shelter, they say "welcome home"

             C
And we carry on
Dm        C/E    F
When our lives come undone
         C
We carry on
 Dm               C/E         F
Cause there's promise in the morning sun
         Am
We carry on
                       F           C/E
As the dark surrenders to the dawn
        Bb             F
We were born to overcome
         C
We carry on

           F
Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells
    C
The happy endings and the fairy tales
G                                      Dm
Is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams
         C  C9  C        F  F9  F (x2)  Bb F
We carry on       Carry on

          C                               C9
It's the family that grieves for a lost loved one
          F                                     F9
It's the soldier who won't leave til the job is done
          C                               C9
It's the addict trying to turn his life around
      F                                       
It's picking yourself off the ground when you've been knocked down

C  C9  C  F  F9  F

     C                                          C9
He stands in the field, cooled by the winds of change
      F                                     F9
She smiles as her baby moves and it starts to rain