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[00:19.11]Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
[00:26.09]He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
[00:32.84]Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
[00:40.08]Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
[00:47.81]Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
[00:54.23]Still at the end of every hard day people find some reason to believe
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[01:05.28]Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
[01:11.96]She said baby I'll work for you everyday and bring my money home to you
[01:19.32]One day he up and left her and ever since that
[01:26.01]She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
[01:33.89]Struck me kinda funny funny yea indeed
[01:40.51]How at the end of every hard earned day you can  find some reason to believe
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[02:05.53]Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
[02:12.27]Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
[02:19.38]In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man
[02:23.77]Passes away take the body to the graveyard and  over him they pray Lord won't you tell us
[02:36.80]Tell us what does it mean
[02:40.37]At the end of every hard earned day
[02:43.23]People find some reason to believe
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[02:48.35]Congregation gathers down by the riverside
[02:54.72]Preacher stands with his bible  groom stands waitin' for his bride
[03:02.45]Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
[03:08.89]Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
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[03:23.23]Wonderin' where can his baby be still
[03:28.42]At the end of every hard earned day people find some  reason to believe