[JODY AND THE KID       by Kris Kristofferson

[Intro]  
           


[Verse 1]

She would meet

 me in the mor

ning on my way

 down to the r

iver
              
Waiting patien

              
t by the china

         
berry tree
            
With her feet 

            
already dusty 

            
from the pathw

          
ay to the leve

e
            
And her little

            
 blue jeans ro

              
lled up to her

 
 knees


[Chorus]
             
And I'd pay he

         
r no attention

             
 as she tagged

         
 along beside 

me
             
Trying hard to

         
 copy everythi

      
ng I did
            
But I couldn't

             
 keep from smi

             
ling when I'd 

            
hear somebody 

  
saying
            
Looky yonder t

            
here goes Jody

                    
 and the kid


[Verse 2]
 
Even after we 

grew older we 

could still be

 seen together
              
As we walked a

              
long the levee

              
 holding hands
            
For as surely 

            
as the seasons

            
 she was chang

         
ing to a woman
            
And I lived en

            
ough to call m

        
yself a man


[Chorus 2]
         
And she often 

             
lay beside me 

         
in the coolnes

            
s of the eveni

ng
         
Till the morni

             
ng sun was shi

            
ning on my bed
            
And at times w

            
hen she was sl

              
eeping I would

            
 smile when I'

  
d remember
            
How they used 

            
to call us Jod

                    
y and the kid


[Verse 3]
  
Now the world'

s a little old

er and the yea

rs have change

d the river
             
Cause there ar

              
e houses where

              
 they didn't u

          
sed to be
            
And on Sundays

            
 I go walking 

            
down the pathw

          
ay to the leve

e
            
With another l

            
ittle girl who

         
 follows me


[Chorus 3]
             
And it makes t

             
he old folks s

          
mile to see he

             
r tag along be

   
side me
             
Doing little t

         
hings the way 

             
her mamma did


[Outro Slowly]
            
But it gets a 

            
little lonesom

            
e when I hear 

         
somebody sayin

g
            
Looky yonder t

            
here goes Jody

                   
 and the kid