Reason To Believe chords by John McCutcheon

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Verse 1
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If I listen long enough to you,
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I'd find a way to believe that it's all true.
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Knowing that you're lying
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straight -faced while I cry
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Still I  look to find a reason to believe
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And if I gave you time to change my mind
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I'd find a way to leave the past behind
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Knowing that you lied straight
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-faced while I cried
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Still I  look to find a reason
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to believe
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Someone like you makes it hard to live
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without somebody else
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Someone like you makes it easy to give
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Never thinkin'

Verse 2

of myself

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Verse 3

if I listened long

enough to you

I'd find a way

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To believe that it's all true

Knowin'

Verse 5
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That you lied
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Straight -faced while I cried
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Still I look to find a reason to believe
I've seen a man sitting by a dead dog
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At a highway in a ditch
He's looking kind of puzzled
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He's poking that dog with a stick
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He's got his car door flung  open
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standing out on highway 31
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like if he stood there long enough
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that old dog get up and run
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don't you think it's kind of funny
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it's kind of funny sir to me
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at the end of every hard -earned day
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people find some reason to believe
Mary Lou loved Johnny
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with a love mean and true
She said, baby, I work for you every day
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and I bring all my money home to you
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One day he up and left her
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and ever since that
She sits at the end of that dirt road
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just waiting for young
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Johnny to come back
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And don't you think it's kind of funny,
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well it's kind of funny sir to me,
how at the end

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Because every hard -earned day
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people find some reason to
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believe
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Take the baby to the river,
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Kyle William they call him
Dip the baby in the water,
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it's wash away little Kyle's sins
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In a white washed shotgun shack,
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an old man passes away

Verse 7

They take his body to the

graveyard

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And over him they pray

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Saying, Lord, won't you tell us

Please tell us what does he need

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Still at the end of every

hard -earned day

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People find some reason to believe

Still

Verse 12
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at the end of every
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hard -earned day
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people find some reason believe.
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Still I look to find a reason.
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Still at the end of every
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hard earned day,
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people find some reason
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to believe.
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