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