Jody And The Kid - Kris Kristofferson

Written by：Kris Kristoffersen

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She would meet me in the mornin'

On my way down to the river

Waitin' patient by the Chinaberry tree

With her feet already dusty

From the pathway to the levee

Her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees

I'd pay her no attention

She tagged along beside me

Tryin' hard to copy everything I did

But I couldn't keep from smilin'

When I'd hear somebody sayin'

Looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid

Even after we grew older

We could still be seen together

As we walked along the levee holdin' hands

For as surely as the seasons

She was changin' to a woman

I'd lived enough to call myself a man

And she often lay beside me

In the coolness of the evenin'

Till the morning sun was shinin' on my bed

And at times when she was sleepin'

I would smile when I'd remember

How they use to call us Jody and the kid

Now the world's a little older

And the years have changed the river

'Cause there's houses where they didn't used to be

On Sundays I go walkin'

Down the pathway to the levee

With another little girl who follows me

And it makes the old folks smile

To see her tag along beside me

Doin' little things the way her mama did

But it gets a little lonesome

When I hear somebody sayin'

Looky yonder there goes Jody and the kid