Writers: Tom Douglas/James T. Slater 
 
 
Intro:  C  C9  C  F  F9  F 
 
   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" 
 
 
Chorus: 
             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 
 
 
CHORUS (x2) 
 
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