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Reason to Believe

Bruce Springsteen, as performed by Aimee Mann and Michael Penn

Capo 1

Intro:  G x4

                                          G         Cadd9                             G (4)

Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch

                                                                                 D (2)
He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick

                                   G              Cadd9                          G (2)
Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on Highway 31

                                 Cadd9 (½)  G (½)    D                                     G (2)
Like if he stood there long       enough         that dog'd get up and run

                            Cadd9 (½)   G (1)                            D (½)            G (2)
It struck me kinda fu       -       nny, seemed kinda funny sir to me

                                   Cadd9 (½)  G (½)             D                               G (4)
Still at the end of every hard          day people find some reason to believe

                               G       Cadd9                                G (4)
Now Mary Lou loved Johnny       with a love mean and true

                                                                                                       D (2)
She said "Baby I'll work for you every day, bring my money home to you"

                               G      Cadd9               G (2)
One day he up and left her and ever since that

                                             Cadd9 (½)  G (½)    D                                          G (2)
She waits down at the end of that dirt road            for young Johnny to come back

                         Cadd9 (½)   G (1)  D (½)              G (2)
Struck me kinda funny,                funny yeah indeed

                                      Cadd9 (½)  G (½)              D                                G (2)       
How at the end of every hard-earned day you can find some reason to believe

Interlude:  / G - - - / Cadd9 - - - / D/F# - - - / G - - - / x2

G (2)                             Cadd9                    G (4)
  Take a baby to the river, Kyle William they called him

                                                                   D (2)
Wash the baby in the water, take away little Kyle's sin

                               G          Cadd9                        G (2)
In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away

                                  Cadd9 (½)  G (½)    D                                 G (2)
Take the body to the grave   -     yard          and over him they pray

                       Cadd9 (½)   G (1)                   D (½)           G (2)
Lord won't you tell                 us, tell us what does it mean

                              Cadd9 (½)    G (½)           D                                 G (6)
At the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe

                      G      Cadd9                    G (4)
Congregation gathers down by the riverside

                                                                                         D (2)
Preacher stands with his Bible, groom stands waitin' for his bride

                       G                        Cadd9                     G (2)
Congregation gone, sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree

                             Cadd9 (½)  G (½)             D                               G (2)
Groom stands all alone and    watches the river rush on effortlessly

                          Cadd9 (½)   G (1)                            D (½)    G (2)
Wonderin' where can              his                        baby    be

                                   Cadd9 (½)   G (½)             D                                G (4)
Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe

End on G