Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
  He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
  Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
  Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
  Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
  Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
    Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
  She said "Baby I'll work for you every day 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 seemed kind of funny sir to me
  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 Kyle's sin
  In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away take his body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us
  tell us what does it mean
  Still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
    Congregation gathers down by the riverside
  Preacher stands with his Bible groom stands waitin' for his bride
  Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
  Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
  Wonderin' where can his baby be still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe