Reason to believe
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1. Seen a man standin’
over a dead dog by the highway in a
ditch,
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he’s lookin down kinda puzzled, pokin’ that dog with a stick.
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Got his car door flung open, he’s
standin’ out on highway 31,
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like
if he stood there long enough that dog’d get up
and run.
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Struck me kinda funny, seem kinda funny, sir, to me,
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still at the end of every hard day
people find some reason to believe.
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2. Now, Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true,
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she
said, baby, I’ll work for you every day,
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bring
my money home to you.
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One day he up and left her and ever since that,
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she
waits down at the end of that dirt road
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for
young Johnny to come back.
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Struck me kinda funny, kind of funny, yeah, to
me,
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how at the end of every hard
earned day
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people find some reason to believe.
+ D - G - A - D (4x)
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3. Take a baby to the river, Kyle William they called him,
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wash
the baby in the water, take away little Kyle’s sin.
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In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away,
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take
his body to the graveyard and over
him they pray.
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Lord, won’t you tell us, tell us what does it mean,
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that at the end of every hard
earned day
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people find some reason to believe.
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4. Congregation gathers down
by the riverside,
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preacher
stands with his Bible, groom stands waitin’ for his
bride.
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Congregation gone, sun sets
behind a weepin’ willow tree,
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groom
stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly.
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Lord and he’s wonderin’ where can his baby be,
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still at the end of every hard
earned day ,
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people find some reason to believe.
+ D - G - D - A - D (2x)
(orig. = capo 3rd; youtube acoustic version =
capo 5th)
(Bruce Springsteen)