More songs by Bruce Springsteen
Description
Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar, Associated Performer, Vocal: Bruce Springsteen
Electric Guitar: Larry Campbell
Composer, Lyricist: B. Springsteen
Mixing Engineer, Recording Engineer: Rob Lebret
Recording Engineer: Monty Carlo
Mastering Engineer: Brian Lee
Mastering Engineer: Bob Jackson
Lyrics and translation
Original
Seen a man standing over a dead dog by the highway in a ditch.
He's looking down kind of puzzled, poking that dog with a stick.
Got his car door flung open, he's standing out on Highway 31.
Like if he stood there long enough, that dog'd get up and run.
Struck me kind of funny, funny suit of me.
Still at the end of every hard-earned day, people find some reason to believe.
Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true.
She said, "Baby, 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 wait down that dirt road for young Johnny to come back.
Struck me kind of funny, funny indeed.
How at the end of every hard-earned day, people find some reason to believe.
Take the baby to the river, Kyle William they call him.
You wash the baby in the water, take away the little Kyle's sins.
In a whitewashed shotgun shack, an old man passes away.
They take the body to the graveyard, and over him they pray.
"Oh Lord, won't you tell us, tell us what does it mean?
" How 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, sun sets behind a weeping willow tree.
Groom stands alone and watches that river rush on so effortlessly.
Mm, he's wondering, where can his baby be?
Still at the end of every hard-earned day, people find some reason to believe.
Ha!
Woo!
Help me!
Hoo!
Hoo!