Reason To Believe

That's the version from the album 
"Live 1975 - 1985"
If you wanna play the album version 
from "Nebraska" just use following 
chords:
G = F
C = Bb
D = C

Reason to Believe (live)
Bruce Springsteen

G                             G  
  Seen a man standin' over a dead
     C                      G
 dog   by the highway in a ditch
G                         G      
 He's lookin' down kinda puzzled 
   G                       D
  pokin' that dog with a stick
D                       G        
 Got his car door flung open   
     C                      G
he's standin' out on Highway 31
G                        C      
 Like if he stood there long 
G   D                        G
enough   that dog'd get up and run
G                        C  G   
 Man it struck me kinda funny   
            D            G
seem kinda funny sir to me
G                         C      
 How at the end of every hard 
     G          D                 
earned day people find some reason
    G  G  G
 to believe

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G                    G     C    
 Now Mary Lou loved Johnny   
                    G
with a love mean and true
G                                 
 She said "Baby I'll work for you 
G         G                      
every day   and bring my money 
       D
home to you"
D                   G       C   
 One day he up and left her   
                  G
and ever since of that
G                                 
 She waits down at the end of that
  C    G     D                   
 dirt road  for young Johnny to 
     G
come back
G                        C  G   
 Man it struck me kinda funny 
              D            G
seemed kind of funny sir to me
G                         C      
 How at the end of every hard 
     G          D                 
earned day people find some reason
  G  G  G
 to believe

G                    G    C     
 Take a baby to the river   Kyle
               G
 William they called him
G                           G    
 They wash the baby in the water 
G                          D
  take away little Kyle's sin
D                 G              
 In a whitewash shotgun shack an 
C                G
old man passes away
G                            C   
 They take his body to the 
    D                     G
graveyard   and over him they pray
G                    C   G      
 Lord now won't you tell us tell
      D           G
 us what does it mean
G                           C
 Still at the end of every hard 
           G          D           
earned day people find some reason
          G G G
 to believe

G              G      C         
 Congregation gathers   down by 
          G
the riverside
G                          G    
 Preacher stands with his Bible 
G                                D
  groom stands waitin' for his bride
D              G                 
 Congregation gone and the sun 
      C                      G
sets behind a weepin' willow tree
G               C                
 Groom stands alone and watches 
    D            D D D  
the river rush on        so 
              G
effortlessly
G               C    G          
 Lord and he's wonderin' where 
D            G
can his baby be
G                           C
 Still at the end of every hard 
           G          D           
earned day people find some reason
          G
 to believe

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