Key: F major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Seen a man standin' over a dead dog
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lyin' by a highway in a ditch
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled,
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pokin' that dog with a stick
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Got his car doors flung open he's stand
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in' out on Highway thirty- one
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Like if he stood there long enough
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that dog'd get up and run
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Struck me kinda funny,
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seem kinda funny, sir, to me
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Still, at the end of every hard day people
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find some reason to believe
Verse 2
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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,
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bring my money home to you"
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One day he up and left her
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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,
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funny, yeah, to me
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How at the end of every hard- earned day people
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find some reason to believe
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
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Take a baby to the river,
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Kyle William they called him
Wash the baby in the water,
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take away little Kyle's sin
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In a whitewash shotgun shack
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an old man passes away
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Take his body to the graveyard
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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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At the end of every hard- earned day people
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find some reason to believe
Verse 4
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Congregation gathers down
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by the riverside
Preacher stands with a Bible,
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groom stands waitin' for his bride
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Congregation gone,
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the sun sets be hind a weepin' willow tree
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Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on,
so effortlessly
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Wonderin' where can his baby be
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Still, at the end of every hard- earned day people
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find some reason to believe
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