Reason to Believe (Live at Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ)

[Verse 1]

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog

By the highway in a ditch

He's lookin' down, kinda puzzled

Pokin' that dog with a stick

Got his car door flung open

He's standin' out on Highway 31

Like if he stood there long enough

That dog'd get up and run

[Chorus]

Struck me kinda funny

Funny, sir, to me

Still at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Verse 2]

Mary Lou loved Johnny

With a love mean and true

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

Bring my money home to you"

One day, he up and left her

And ever since that

She wait down that dirt road

For young Johnny to come back

[Chorus]

Struck me kinda funny

Hmm, funny, yeah, indeed

How at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Harmonica Solo]

[Verse 3]

Take a baby to the river

Kyle William, they call him

They wash the baby in the water

Take away little Kyle's sins

In a whitewashed shotgun shack

An old man passes away

They take the body to the graveyard

And over him they pray

[Chorus]

Oh Lord, won't you tell us

Tell us, what does it mean?

How 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 waitin' for his bride

Congregation gone

The sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree

Groom stands alone and watches that river rush on

So effortlessly

[Chorus]

Mmm, he's wonderin'

Where can his baby be?

Still, at the end of every hard-earned day

People find some reason to believe

[Outro]

Heh

Woo

Hey

Hoo

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