A Reason To Believe chords by Bruce Springsteen (Ver. 2)

From: David.Mays@merrick.com
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:46:27 -0700
Subject: CRD s/springsteen_bruce/a_reason_to_believe

   A REASON TO BELIEVE
   Bruce Springsteen, off the Nebraska album.
   (submitted by david.mays@merrick.com)

   Basic blues progression: A-D-A-E

   A              D           A
   A man stands by a dead dog, by the highway, in the ditch

   A                            E
   He's looking down kinda puzzled, poking that dog with a stick

   Got his car door flung open, out on Highway 31
   Like if he stood there long enough, that dog would up and run.

   CHORUS:
   Well it struck me kinda funny, some kind of funny yes indeed
   At the end of every hard day people find some reason to believe

   Now Mary's little love Johnny, with a love mean and true
   Said I'll work for you every day, bring my money home to you
   One day he up and left her, and ever since that
   She stands at the end of that dirt road, waiting for young
    Johnny to come back.

   CHORUS

   Take a baby to the river, Carl William they call him
   Wash the baby in the water, [unintelligible]
   Whitewashed old gun shack, an old man paces away Take
   the baby to the graveyard, and over him they pray

   CHORUS, with 1st line:
   Lord won't you tell us, tell us what does it mean

   Congregation gathered, down by the riverside
   Preacher stands with a Bible, groom waiting for his bride
   Congregation gone, the sun sets behind a weeping willow tree
   Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly

   CHORUS, with 1st line:
   Wonderin', where can his baby be...