Key: G
Introduction:
G= F
C= Bb
D= C
Reason to Believe (live)
Bruce Springsteen
G C G
Seen a man standin' over a dead dog by the highway in a ditch
G D
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
D G C G
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31
G C G D G
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
G C G D G
Man it struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
G C G D G
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
G C G
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
G D
She said "Baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you"
D G C G
One day he up and left her and ever since of that
G C G D G
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
G C G D G
Man it struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny sir to me
G C G D G
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
G C G
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
G D
They wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
D G C G
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away
G C D G
They take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray
G C G D G
Lord now won't you tell us tell us what does it mean
G C G D G
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
G C G
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
G D
Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride
D G C G
Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
G C D G
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
G C G D G
Lord and he's wonderin' where can his baby be
G C G D G
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
G C G D
G C G D G