Reason to Believe

[Verse 1]

Seen a man standing over a dead dog

By a highway in a ditch

He's looking down, kinda puzzled

Poking that dog with a stick

Got his car door flung open

He's standing out on Highway 31

Like if he stood there long enough

That dog'd get up and run

[Chorus]

Struck me kinda funny

Seemed kinda funny, sir, to me

Still at the end of every hard day

People find some reason to believe

[Verse 2]

Now, Mary Lou loved Johnny

With a love mean and true

She said, "Baby, I'll work for you every day

And bring my money home to you"

One day, he up and left her

And ever since that

She waits down at the end of that dirt road

For young Johnny to come back

[Chorus]

Struck me kinda funny

Funny, yeah, indeed

How at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Verse 3]

Take a baby to the river

Kyle William, they called him

Wash the baby in the water

Take away little Kyle's sin

In a whitewashed shotgun shack

An old man passes away

Take the body to the graveyard

Over him, they pray

[Chorus]

Lord, won't you tell us

Tell us, what does it mean?

At the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Verse 4]

Congregation gathers

Down by the riverside

Preacher stands with a Bible

Groom stands, waiting for his bride

Congregation gone

The sun sets behind a weeping willow tree

Groom stands alone, and watches the river rush on

So effortlessly

[Chorus]

Wondering

Where can his baby be?

Still, at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe