Jody and the Kid lyrics

She would meet me in the morning

On my way down to the river

Waiting by the china berry tree

With her feet already dusty

From the pathway to the levy

And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees

I had paid her no attention as she tagged along beside me

Trying hard to copy everything I did

But I couldn't keep from smiling

When i'd hear somebody saying,

"Look yonder, there goes Jody and the kid".

Even after we grew older

We could still be seen together

As we walked along the levy holding hands

For as surely as the seasons

She was changing to a woman

And I lived enough to call myself a man

And she often laid beside me

In the coolness of the evening

Til the morning sun was shining on my bed

And at times when she was sleeping

I would smile and I'd remember

How they used 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

And on Sundays I go walking down the pathway to the levy

With another little girl who follows me

And it makes the old folks smile to see her tag along beside me

Doing little things the way her mama did

But it gets a little lonesome

When I hear somebody saying,

"Look yonder, there goes Jody and the kid"...