Tom: A
(capo 2nd fret)
(verse 1)
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She would meet me in the mornin' on my way down to the river,
Am - D
Waiting patient by the China Berry tree;
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With her feet already dusty from the pathway to the levee,
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And her little blue jeans rolled up to her knees.
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I'd pay her no attention as she tagged along beside me,
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Trying hard to copy ev'rything I did;
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But I couldn't keep from smiling when I'd hear somebody saying:
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"Look a-yonder; there goes Jody and the kid."
(verse 2)
After we grew older, we could still be seen together,
As we walked along the levee holding hands;
For as surely as the seasons, she was changin' to a woman,
And I'd lived enough to call myself a man.
And she often lay 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 when I'd remember,
How they used to call us "Jody and the kid."
(verse 3)
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Now, the world's a little older, and the years have changed the river,
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'Cos there's houses where they didn't used to be;
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And on Sundays I go walking down the pathway to the levee,
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With another little girl who follows me.
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And it makes the old folks smile to see her tag along beside me,
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Doing little things the way her Mamma did.
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But it gets a little lonesome, when I hear somebody saying:
Am D G
"Look yonder; there goes Jody and the kid."
