Key: F major
Intro 1
F#
Verse 1
F#
Seen a man standin' over a dead dog
B
F#
lyin' by a highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled,
G
F#
C#
pokin' that dog with a stick
F#
Got his car doors flung open he's stand
B
F#
in' out on Highway thirty- one
B
F#
C#
Like if he stood there long enough
F#
that dog'd get up and run
B
Struck me kinda funny,
F#
seem kinda funny, sir, to me
B
F#
Still, at the end of every hard day people
C#
F#
find some reason to believe
Verse 2
F#
B
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with
F#
a love mean and true
She said "Baby, I'll work for you every day,
C#
bring my money home to you"
F#
One day he up and left her
B
F#
and ever since that
B
F#
She waits down at the end of that dirt road
C#
F#
for young Johnny to come back
B
Struck me kinda funny,
F#
funny, yeah, to me
B
F#
How at the end of every hard- earned day people
C#
F#
find some reason to believe
Interlude 1
F#
B
C#
F#
B
F#
Verse 3
F#
Take a baby to the river,
B
F#
Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water,
C#
take away little Kyle's sin
F#
In a whitewash shotgun shack
B
F#
an old man passes away
B
F#
Take his body to the graveyard
C#
F#
and over him they pray
B
F#
Lord won't you tell us,
tell us what does it mean
B
F#
At the end of every hard- earned day people
C#
F#
find some reason to believe
Verse 4
F#
B
Congregation gathers down
F#
by the riverside
Preacher stands with a Bible,
C#
groom stands waitin' for his bride
F#
Congregation gone,
B
F#
the sun sets be hind a weepin' willow tree
C#
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on,
so effortlessly
F#
B
F#
Wonderin' where can his baby be
B
F#
Still, at the end of every hard- earned day people
Outro 1
find some reason to believe
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B G C#
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