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REASON TO BELIEVE from Nebraska
HARMONICA INTRO: F#
B F#
Seen a man standing over a dead dog by the highway in a ditch
C#
He's looking down kinda puzzled poking that dog with a stick
F# B F#
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
B F# C# F#
Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
B F# C# F#
Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
B F# C# F#
Still at the end of every hard day people find some reason to believe
B F#
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
C#
She said baby I'll work for you every day and bring my money home to you
F# B F#
One day he up and left her and ever since that
B F# C# F#
She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
B F# C# F#
Struck me kinda funny seemed kind of funny yeah indeed
B F# C# F#
How at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
HARMONICA: B C# F#
B C# F#
B F#
Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
C#
Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
F# B F#
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away
B F# C# F#
Take his body to the graveyard over him they pray
B F# C# F#
Lord won't you tell us, tell us what does it mean
B F# C# F#
At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
B F#
Congregation gathers down by the riverside
C#
Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waiting for his bride
F# B F#
Congregation gone the sun sets behind a weeping willow tree
C# F#
Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
B F# C# F#
Wondering where can his baby be
B F# C# F#
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
HARMONICA OUTRO: B F# C# F#
B F# C# F#
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NOTES:
TUNING: The tuning to play in the key above is slightly flat, not quite a whole
semitone. Live the song is played in 'G' which makes me think that this was
possibly played in 'G' but his guitar was maybe out of tune. To transpose F#=G,
B=C and C#=D...or tune down slightly.
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CHORDS: EADGBE
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F# 244322
B X24442
C# X46664
