text: Seen a man standing over a dead dog
  Lying by the highway in a ditch
  Hes looking down kinda puzzled
  Poking that dog with a stick
  Got his car door flung open
  Hes standing out on Highway 31
  Like if he stood there long enough
  That dogd get up and run
  Struck me kinda funny
  Seemed kinda funny, sir, to me
  Still, at the end of every hard day
  People find some reason to believe
  Now, Mary Lou loved Johnny
  With a love mean and true
  She said, Baby, Ill work for you everyday
  And bring my money home to you
  One day, he up and left her
  And ever since that
  She waits down at the end of that dirt road
  For young Johnny to come back
  Struck me kinda funny
  Funny, yeah, indeed
  How at the end of every hard-earned day
  People find some reason to believe
  Take a baby to the river
  Kyle William, they called him
  Wash the baby in the water
  Take away little Kyles sin
  In a whitewashed shotgun shack
  An old man passes away
  Take the body to the graveyard
  And over him, they pray
  Lord, wont you tell us
  Tell us—what does it mean?
  At the end of every hard-earned day
  People find some reason to believe
  Congregation gathers
  Down by the riverside
  Preacher stands with a bible
  Groom stands waiting for his bride
  Congregation gone and the sun sets
  Behind a weeping willow tree
  Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on
  So effortlessly
  Wondering
  Where can his baby be
  Still, at the end of every hard-earned day
  People find some reason to believe