Reason to Believe

Tom: B
Intro: F#

                                           B            F#
Seen a man standing over a dead dog by the highway in a ditch
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He's looking down kinda puzzled poking that dog with a stick
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Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
                       B     F#         C#               F#
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
                B    F#          C#           F#
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
                          B    F#         C#                    F#
Still at the end of every hard day people find some reason to believe

                                      B        F#
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
                                                                     C#
She said baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you
                  F#      B               F#
One day he up and left her and ever since that
                                  B    F#   C#                       F#
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
                B    F#              C#           F#
Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny yeah indeed
                        B           F#         C#                    F#
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

HARMONICA:  B  C#  F#
            B  C#  F#

                         B                        F#
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
                                                   C#
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 
                     B    F#  C#             F#
Take his body to the graveyard over him they pray 
               B    F#          C#           F#
Lord won't you tell us, tell us what does it mean
                    B           F#         C#                    F#
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
                     B                F#
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
                                                            C#
Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waiting for his bride
             F#                  B                     F#
Congregation gone the sun sets behind a weeping willow tree
              C#                                              F#
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
B     F#        C#           F#
Wondering where can his baby be 
                          B           F#         C#                    F#
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

HARMONICA Outro:  B  F#  C#  F#
                  B  F#  C#  F#