Reason to Believe

Seen a man standing over a dead dog
Down by the highway in the ditch
He's looking down and kinda puzzled
Poking that dog with a stick

Got his car door flung open
He's standing on highway 31
Like if he stood there long enough
That dog would get up and he'd run

Struck me kind of funny
Yeah, funny to me
At the end of every hard day
People find some reason to believe

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 got up and left her
And ever since that
She waits down at the end of the road
For young Johnny to come back

It struck me kind of funny
Funny indeed
At the end of every hard day
People find some reason to believe

Take the baby down to the river
Kyle William they called him
Washed the baby in the water
Took away little Kyle's sin

In a whitewashed shotgun shack
An old man passes away
Take the body to the graveyard
And over him they will pray

Lord won't you tell us
Tell us what does it mean
At the end of every hard day
People find some reason to believe

The congregation gathers
Down by the river side
The preacher stands with the Bible
And the groom stands waiting for his bride

Congregation gone and the sun sets
Behind the weeping willow tree
The groom stands alone
And watches the river rush on so effortlessly

Wondering where his baby
His baby can be
Still at the end of every hard day
People find some reason to believe